BACKGROUND: Provision of spiritual/religious (S/R) care has been associated with improvements in patient care, patient-provider relationships, and resource utilization. Clinicians identify a lack [...]
CONTEXT: Medical schools are known to be stressful environments for students and hence medical students have been believed to experience greater incidences of depression than others. We evaluated [...]
Contributions from Christian ethics and Buddhist philosophy to the management of compassion fatigue in nurses
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The aim in the article is to demonstrate how insights from Christian ethics and Buddhist philosophy can make contributions to the management of compassion fatigue. There are already helpful [...]
Teaching spirituality and spiritual care in health sciences education has been identified as a need to enhance holistic care. However, educators seemed to be unprepared and have insufficient [...]
Prayer and the Registered Nurse (PRN): nurses’ reports of ease and dis-ease with patient-initiated prayer request
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AIMS: To explore nurse comfort with patient-initiated prayer request scenarios. BACKGROUND: Spiritual care is fundamental to patient care evidenced by Joint Commission requirement of a spiritual [...]
This study was to explore the perceptions of Filipino nurses’ spirituality and the provision of spiritual nursing care. A descriptive, cross-sectional, and quantitative study was adopted [...]
THEORY: Empathy is one component of medical student education that may be important to nurture, but there are many potential psychological barriers to empathy, such as student depression, [...]
Critical Care Nurses’ Perceived Need for Guidance in Addressing Spirituality in Critically Ill Patients
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BACKGROUND: The term spirituality is highly subjective. No common or universally accepted definition for the term exists. Without a clear definition, each nurse must reconcile his or her own [...]
Why do We Find It so Hard to Discuss Spirituality? A Qualitative Exploration of Attitudinal Barriers
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ACKGROUND: Despite known health benefits of spiritual care and high patient interest in discussing spirituality with their physicians, the frequency of spiritual discussions in the medical [...]
Objectives: We conducted an online cross-sectional survey to determine the understanding of spirituality and spiritual care among clinical and non-clinical staff caring for people with chronic [...]