BACKGROUND A majority of people in Western Europe and the USA die in hospitals. Spiritual and existential care is seen to be an integral component of holistic, compassionate and comprehensive palliative care. Yet, several studies show that many nurses are anxious and uncertain about engaging in spiritual and existential care for the dying. The aim of this study is to describe nurses' experience...

The aim of the study was to describe the type of intervention provided by hospice staff in order to address the pragmatic, psycho-social, and spiritual needs of home-caregivers for patients in the last stage of cancer. The qualitative inquiry was carried out in real life contexts. The explicit demands that caregivers (n = 40) identified in the first interviews were: (1) helping to organize the ...

there is a strong relationship between spiritual development of nursing students and their ability to provide patients with spiritual care. therefore, present research aims to explore spiritual health in nursing students of theilam university of medical sciences, in iran for both boys and girls. spiritual health of students is determined using the palutzian andelisonquestionnaire which consiste...

objective: nurses are the most important staff in the health care system, thus, their job satisfaction is important in nursing management. the present study aimed at determining the impact of teaching spiritual intelligence on the job satisfaction of psychiatric nurses. methods: the participants were divided into 2 groups by random allocation. data were collected in 3 stages of before intervent...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explore if and how spiritual needs are assessed and if spiritual care is provided to Dutch nursing home residents, including residents suffering from dementia, and if and how caregivers communicate and collaborate regarding the residents' spiritual needs. DESIGN Two researchers conducted an ethnographic participatory study in a Dutch nursing home betwee...

disease is a matter with which each person may face in his life. if caregivers want to provide real and complete health care services, comprehensive attention to the spiritual needs of a patient is indispensibe. since many people obtain spirituality through religion, appropriate religious care can promote spiritual health of patients. this research aimed at examining religious care program and ...

background: spiritual well-being (swb) of patients with cardiovascular diseases particularly in those admitted in coronary care unit (ccu) is threatened due to disease crisis. therefore, implementing spiritual care is necessary for them. this study aimed to determine the effect of spiritual care program on swb of patients with cardiac ischemia admitted in ccu in al-zahra hospital, isfahan, iran...

Research indicates that nurses do not consistently provide spiritual care, feel ill equipped to do so, and there is a lack of information as to the type of spiritual care practices nurses use. This exploratory descriptive study surveyed nurses (N = 123) about their spiritual care practices and perceptions of effectiveness, followed by qualitative interviews with volunteers (n = 5) from the surv...