NURSING THEORY AND CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT OR ANALYSIS Towards clarification of the meaning of spirituality
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Rhetoric about spirituality and the human search for spiritual answers has been part of history for many years, and spiritual care has been part of nursing history since ancient times (Narayanasamy 1999c). Humans have a profound need to understand their spirits (Freeman 1998), which is the core of human existence and the most elusive and mysterious constituent of our human nature (Macquarrie 1972, p. 43), because being spiritual is part of being human (Wright 1998, Cairns 1999). In the last few decades, there has been a resurgence of spiritual discourse, as scientific-based approaches are not fully able to address many fundamental human problems such as persistent pain (Sundblom et al.
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