Students' lived experience of spiritual nurturing in nursing education : a phenomenological study

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the phenomenon of spiritual nurturing as experienced by students in their fourth-year of an undergraduate baccalaureate nursing education program in Canada, using van Manen’s (2002) approach to phenomenology. The goal of this study is to describe the lived experience of spiritual nurturing of fourth-year nursing students in order to reflect on how nursing students learn spiritual care. Data were collected via in-depth interviews with seven fourth-year nursing students and analyzed according to van Manen’s interpretive approach. Three themes of spiritual nurturing emerged: spiritual nurturing as exchanging energy (spirituality as relationship with others), spiritual nurturing as recharging energy (spirituality as relationship with self), and spiritual nurturing as receiving energy (spirituality as relationship with transcending). Spiritual nurturing as it applies to nursing education, nursing practice, administration of nursing programs and nursing research are discussed from the students’ perspectives.

Authors

• Krampl, Gayle
• University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science

• Nursing students -- Psychology
• Nursing students -- Attitudes
• Spiritual care (Medical care)
• Dissertations, Academic

Identifier

hdl:10133/630

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:opus.uleth.ca:10133/630