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Nurse education and willingness to provide spiritual care

Wu, Li-Fen, Tseng, Hui-Chen, Liao, Yu-Chen·2016·Nurse Education Today
DOI 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.01.001
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Background Spiritual care is a critical part of holistic care, and nurses require adequate preparation to address the spiritual needs of patients. However, nurses' willingness to provide such care has rarely been reported. Hence, nurses' education, and knowledge of spiritual care, as well as their willingness to provide it require further study.Methods A convenience sample of 200 nurses participated in the study. Quantitative data were collected using a 21-item Spiritual Care Needs Inventory (content validity index=.87; Cronbach's alpha=.96).Results The majority of participants were female (96.5%, n=193) between 21 and 59years old (mean=35.1years). Moreover, the majority of participants had a Bachelor's degree (74.0%, n=148) and 1-36years of clinical experience (mean=12.13years). Regarding religious beliefs, 63 (31.5%) had no religious belief, and 93 (46.5%) did not engage in any religious activity. Overall, the nurses were willing to provide spiritual care, although only 25 (12.5%) felt that they had received adequate education.Conclusion The findings of this study indicate the need for further educational preparation in spiritual care for nurses. Specifically, additional teaching materials are required that are more directly related to spiritual care. Greater emphasis should be placed on different subject areas in school-based education, continuing education, and self-learning education according to the needs of nurses. Since spiritual care education needs policy support, in-depth discussions should take place regarding the approach and cultural environment for providing spiritual care in future nursing courses. Moreover, further studies should investigate barriers in providing spiritual nursing care to patients and whether they are the results of a lack of relevant knowledge or other factors.

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Authors
Wu, L.-F., Tseng, H.-C., & Liao, Y.-C.
Affiliations
  • University of Iowa (US)
  • Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TW)
ORCID
Venue
Nurse Education Today
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-03
Volume
38
Pages
36-41
ISSN
0260-6917 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.nedt.2016.01.001
OpenAlex
W2234043193
Cited by
65
References
29
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 3
FWCI
7.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Nurse Education Today (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Council (NSC 101-2314-B-025-002)
  • Taichung Veterans General Hospital/National Taichung University of Science and Technology (TCVGH-NTUST1048501)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Cultural Competency in Health Care
Keywords
spiritual care, spiritual care education, holistic care, nursing education, continuing education, barriers to spiritual care
MeSH terms
Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Education, Nursing, Continuing, Educational Status, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Religion and Medicine, Holistic Nursing, Nurse's Role, Spirituality

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