Children’s spirituality, life and values education: cultural, spiritual and educational perspectives

Student nurses' perspectives of spirituality and spiritual care

Student nurses' perspectives of spirituality and spiritual care.

AIM To investigate nursing students' perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care. BACKGROUND Spirituality is an essential part of holistic care but often neglected in practice. Barriers to spiritual care include limited educational preparation, negative attitudes towards spirituality, confusion about nurses' role, perceptions of incompetence and avoidance of spiritual matters. There is lim...

Factors affecting patient education from cultural perspectives

Introduction: Patient education is influenced by cultural factors. This studyaims to find out the role of culture in patient education.Methods: A qualitative study was conducted on 23 Iranian nurses. Inclusioncriteria were minimum 5 years of working experience in clinical nursing. Semistructured face to face interviews were used to collect the data. Interviews were taped, transcribed and analyz...

Experiences of Spirituality and Spiritual Values in the Context of Nursing – An Integrative Review

Spirituality is often mistakenly equated with religion but is in fact a far broader concept. The aim of this integrative review was to describe experiences of the positive impact of spirituality and spiritual values in the context of nursing. The analysis was guided by Whittemore and Knafl's integrative review method. The findings revealed seven themes: 'Being part of a greater wholeness', 'Tog...

NURSING STUDENTS AND NURSES ATTITUDE TOWARD SPIRITUALITY AND SPIRITUAL CARE

Background & Aim: Spirituality is an important dimension of holistic nursing and spiritual care is essential in order to ensure the achievement of educational objectives in the nursing profession, providing proper care and obtaining minimum standards of professional competence and maintaining and promoting it. The aim of this study was to investigate nurses and nursing students’ viewpoints abou...