the importance of spiritual care in nursing

The Importance of Spiritual Care in Nursing

As nurse researchers, we were studying Iranian nurses’ competencies in spiritual care recently. Using a selfdirected instrument, we surprisingly found that nurses have low acquaintance with the spirituality concept and how to provide spiritual care. Similar to other caring activities and procedures, spiritual care improves people’s spiritual well-being and performance as well as the quality of ...

Spiritual Care in Old Age: Nursing Reflection

As the age progresses there is a deep connection with spirituality and religiosity perhaps due to the maturity reached by the lived experiences, or by a sense of connection with the corporal finitude that makes necessary the connection with the beliefs and values more intimate Aging affects the perception of well-being, and therefore seeks strategies that allow it to have resilient mechanisms, ...

Towards nursing competencies in spiritual care

Spiritual care in nursing: a systematic approach.

Ian Govier suggests that patients will benefit if nurses adopt a systematic approach to assessing spiritual needs. However, it may be necessary to evaluate personal spirituality before applying this approach.

Groningen Towards nursing competencies in spiritual care

Literature Review on Spiritual Care in Nursing

This article is to review literature from 2011 to 2015 on spiritual care in nursing using CINAHL. In this article, the keywords “systematic review,” “spiritual care,” and “nursing” were used to search the CINAHL database. Initially a total of 19 articles were identified; however, 11 papers were reviewed after excluding the inappropriate articles following six categories as the definition of spi...