Spirituality as an emerging area of academic study within health care has experienced rapid development over a 20year period with mounting evidence that spiritual support yields improvements in a variety of physical and psychological health outcomes (Koenig 2012). The scientific development in the field of health sciences and its ethical and moral foundations leave no space for doubt with regar...

Die junge Disziplin widmet sich den Seelenkräften, die Heilung und Durchhaltewillen, Coping Resilienz vermitteln. Das Wissen darum lässt vergleichsweise leicht in Klinikalltag einbauen verbessert oft Atmosphäre für alle Beteiligten.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine what patients with cancer and primary family caregivers expect from nurses with regard to having their spiritual needs addressed. RESEARCH APPROACH Descriptive, cross-sectional, qualitative study using Miles and Huberman s approach to data reduction. SETTING Outpatient and inpatient settings in a county hospital and a comprehensive cancer center, both located...

background despite the paramount importance and direct relationship of spirituality and spiritual care with health and well-being, they are relatively neglected aspects of nursing care. objectives the aim of this study is to explore iranian nurses’ perceptions and experiences of the facilitators of spiritual care delivery. materials and methods for this qualitative content analysis study, a pur...

PURPOSE Recent work suggests that the biopsychosocial model should be expanded to include the spiritual dimension as well. The purpose of this study was to assess the independent effects of spiritual symptoms and their interactions with biopsychosocial symptoms on health care utilization, extreme use of services, and life satisfaction among primary care patients. METHODS Three hundred fifty-t...

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...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the spiritual well-being of nurses; to appraise their opinions as to the importance of offering patients spiritual assistance, and to verify whether nurses received any specific type of preparation during their professional training for giving spiritual assistance to patients. METHODS This is an exploratory and descriptive study, carried out with a sample of 30 nurses w...

This case report shares a nursing experience that applied Swanson's Caring Theory as part of the care regimen for a terminal lung cancer patient suffering from spiritual distress. The nursing care was provided from March 20th to April 25th, 2012. Data were collected through observation and conversation and recorded using sketches and written notes. The nurse assessed the patient's relationships...

BACKGROUND Although nurses acknowledge that spiritual care is part of their role, in reality, it is performed to a lesser extent. The purpose of the present study was to explore nurses' and patients' experiences about the conditions of spiritual care and spiritual interventions in the oncology units of Tabriz. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted with a qualitative conventional cont...