Factors affecting nursing staff in practising spiritual care

Moon Fai Chan

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2010, vol. 19, issue 15‐16, 2128-2136

Abstract: Aim. To examine nurses’ attitudes to practising spiritual care and determine factors associated with nurses’ attitudes to practising spiritual care. Background. Today, health is no longer viewed as a passive state of being, but as a dynamic process of achieving higher levels of wellness. In practices, nurse has increasingly focused on treating the whole person, including the four domains: physical, mental, social and spiritual. Of these four domains, the spiritual domain is the most neglected in daily nursing practice. Design. This is retrospective study. Methods. A convenience sampling was used and 110 nurses completed a structured questionnaire at a public hospital in September 2006. Outcome measures. Nurses’ demographic data and perceptions and practices scores on spiritual care. Results. The results showed that nurses who more likely had religious beliefs (p = 0·028), were more likely to be married (p = 0·01), had past hospitalisation experiences (p = 0·009), worked in the obstetrics and gynaecology department (p

Date: 2010
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