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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Spiritual care"”.
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Spiritual Care in Advanced Practice Nursing
<p>Spiritual care has the potential to improve clients' health and quality of life. Since clients desire spiritual care from their health care providers as they age or as their health worsens, geriatric nurse practitioners (GNPs) were chosen to participate in this study. This cross-sectional, …
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NURSES' PERCEPTIONS OF SPIRITUALITY AND SPIRITUAL CARE
The problem: Spirituality and spiritual care are vital components of holistic healthcare (body, mind, and spirit). The rise in technological advances, the ongoing time constraints, and the continued shortage of nurses hinder the provision of holistic healthcare. Nursing faculty acknowledge current …
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Nurses' Spiritual Care Practices: Assessment, Type, Frequency, and Correlates
… the type, frequency, and correlates of nurses' spiritual care practices (quantitative) and their experiences with the sacred at work (qualitative). A convenience sample of 554 (24%) of the Registered Nurses employed at a western United States faith-based tertiary care health system participated …
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Exploring the Relationship Between and Among Registered Nurses' Spiritual Well-Being, Spiritual Care Perspectives, and their Provision of Spiritual Care in Acute Care Settings
… <p>Despite acknowledgment that spiritual care is an essential aspect of holistic nursing care, nurses often feel ill-prepared for, uncomfortable with, and uncertain about providing spiritual care. Studies have indicated that nurses who have a strong sense of their own spiritual …
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Leading in Context: The lived experiences of spiritual care leaders
… to explore the leadership experiences of spiritual care leaders in Catholic Healthcare. Both healthcare and spiritual care continue to evolve prompting spiritual care leaders to consider their leadership approaches as they strive to remain relevant and effective. Given the apparent limited …
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Religiosity of nurses related to provisions of spiritual care to patients
… and their attitudes toward provision of spiritual care to patients. The nonrandom, convenience sample consisted of 50 nurses employed at a teaching hospital in the southwestern United States. The Religious Attitude Inventory and the Patient Spiritual Need Index were used. Test results …
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Spirituality and spiritual care amongst professional nurses at public hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal
Submitted in fulfilment of requirements for the Degree of Masters in Technology: Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2013.
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Spiritual Perspective, Mindfulness, and Spiritual Care Practices of Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses
<p>Spiritual care is an ethical obligation of the nursing profession and an essential component of palliative care, but is often misunderstood. Lack of conceptual clarity is problematic, for each nurse will provide spiritual care based on his or her understanding of what this care should …
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Spiritual Care as Creative Interruption: Exploring a Generative Metaphor for Intercultural Healthcare Chaplaincy
<p>Public healthcare institutions are increasingly culturally diverse, creating ethical challenges that arise from the complexities of competing values and beliefs. The ethical responsibility of chaplains to provide spiritual care in diverse healthcare contexts necessitates a re-visioning of deeply …
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The Role of Social Support and Spiritual Care in Numbers of ED Visits
… emergency departments (EDs) serve as a health care safety net. While there are a number of medical crises that bring people to ERs, up to more than half of visits to the emergency room may be considered non-urgent. As such, there is a pressing need for exploration of non- traditional forms of …
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Spiritual Care in Healthcare: A Critical Realist Investigation into General Practice Nurses’ Perceptions and Practices
… of GP nurses in relation to the concepts of spirituality and of spiritual care. This is an under researched constituency in relation to an emerging topic of interest across the healthcare sector. The aim of the thesis is to investigate GP nurses’ perceptions and practices in the provision of …
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Nursing Students' Experiences in Personal Spiritual Formation and in Provision of Spiritual Care to Patients
… Nursing professionals acknowledge that (a) spiritual care is part of holistic care, and (b) nursing education about spiritual care of patients is inadequate. Evidence points to the importance of personal faith and spirituality in order for the nurse to more effectively render spiritual care …
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A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between Instructor and Students' Perception of Spiritual Care Curriculum Content
… between student and instructor perceptions of spiritual care as it is contained within their nursing schools' curricula. Student and instructor perceptions of spiritual nursing care, of the number of hours of spiritual care content, of perceptions of the extent that spiritual care is applied by …
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Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy and Connectedness: Art as a Means to Spiritual Care for Asian Seniors
… Asian seniors in staying in touch with their spirituality. This study was comprised of 30 Asian seniors, who were participated in an 8-week group on focusing-oriented art therapy (FOAT ®). The researcher hypothesized that the spiritual connection of participants would be increased as a result …
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The design and development of guidelines to integrate spirituality and spiritual care into occupational therapy education using design-based research
Spirituality and spiritual care have been gaining importance in recent years in occupational therapy education as constructs related to holistic and personcentred approaches, in order to improve occupational therapy practice. In a South African context there has been little research carried out on …
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The design and validation of a framework for competencies in spiritual care for nurses and midwives: a modified Delphi study
… study aimed to develop a competency framework in spiritual care for nurses/midwives to address the lack of guidelines in nursing/midwifery education and clinical practice.<br/><br/>The study adopted a mixed methods approach, using an eclectic framework through three main phases. In Phase 1, …
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The Relationship Between Perspectives ofSpiritual Care and Organizational Climate in Seventh-day Adventist Baccalaureate Nursing Programs in North America
… explore the relationship between perspectives of spiritual care held by students and faculty in Seventh-day Adventist baccalaureate nursing programs and their perception of the school climate and compare these between faculty and students, Seventh-day Adventists and non-Seventh-day Adventists, and …
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Assessing the need for spiritual care and evaluating the usefulness of a spiritual assessment tool in a multicultural population of patients with life threatening illnesses in South Africa
To assess the need for spiritual care in a multicultural population of patients with life threatening illnesses in South Africa and to evaluate the usefulness of a spiritual assessment tool in introducing spiritual care into the consultation.
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Discomfort in Addressing Spiritual Needs: A Hospital-Wide Exploration into the Hole in Holistic Care
… has claimed to provide holistic patient care, which is defined as bio-psycho-socio-spiritual care. However, many nurses do not feel comfortable with the “spiritual” element of care and are uncertain about their professional role in the assessment and delivery of spiritual care. Discomfort …
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A phenomenological study of patients' expectations concerning nursing care
… is holistic, that every action taken in the care of a patient has consequences; and they like to believe that those consequences have a positive impact on the patient and their family's ultimate health. For nurses, gaining an understanding of patients' expectations regarding holistic care, to …
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