Creating a spiritual tapestry: nurses' experiences of delivering spiritual care to patients in an Irish hospice.
Affiliation
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Health Science, University of Limerick, Castletroy, Limerick. maria.bailey@ul.ieIssue Date
2009-01Keywords
SPIRITUALITYPASTORAL CARE
NURSING
HOSPICE
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
MeSH
Attitude of Health PersonnelAwareness
Empathy
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Holistic Health
Hospice Care
Humans
Ireland
Models, Nursing
Models, Psychological
Nurse's Role
Nurse-Patient Relations
Nursing Assessment
Nursing Methodology Research
Nursing Staff
Pastoral Care
Qualitative Research
Questionnaires
Self Efficacy
Spirituality
Time Factors
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Creating a spiritual tapestry: nurses' experiences of delivering spiritual care to patients in an Irish hospice. 2009, 15 (1):42-8 Int J Palliat NursJournal
International journal of palliative nursingPubMed ID
19234430Abstract
This study aims to describe nurses' experiences of delivering spiritual support in a palliative care setting in the Republic of Ireland. The authors conducted semi-structured interviews with 22 nurses working in the area of specialist palliative care. A content analysis of the transcriptions revealed five sub-themes: understanding spirituality; the art of nursing in spiritual care; education and learning; the challenge of spiritual caring; and the dimensions of time. The resulting creation of a spiritual tapestry provided an overall theme. Nurses in this study were spiritually self-aware and placed a high value on the spiritual element of their caring role. Nurses described their individual understanding of spirituality and discussed how they recognized and addressed a patient's spiritual needs. Time was described as essential to the provision of spiritual support and appeared to be a significant resource challenge to the provision of spiritual care. The challenges of assessing spiritual needs and measuring outcomes of care were also reported. Participants in this study described the creation of a spiritual tapestry that 'weaves' together care and compassion with skills and knowledge in their nursing practice.Item Type
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