Spirituality and spiritual well-being among nursing students

2021 ◽  
pp. 458-460
Author(s):  
Jisha Joseph ◽  
Betcy George ◽  
Jose K Benny ◽  
Alfy George ◽  
Ammu Kuriachan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
World Health ◽  
Holistic Care ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Spiritual Wellbeing ◽  
Spiritual Well Being

Aim: A descriptive study was conducted to assess the spirituality and spiritual among nursing students in a selected college of nursing in Ernakulum District, Kerala. Background: Spirituality and spiritual care are of great importance as fundamental principles in health care. With the introduction of important changes in the health care system, nurses use the concept of holism in patient care and the spiritual aspect of health care is steadily gaining importance. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the health needs should include spiritual well-being in addition to physical, mental, and social domains .Spirituality is a positive dimension of the human being and care and might help patients reframe their experiences and condition of illness as well as find meaning in life and in that circumstance.Spiritual well being is one of a core human component that provides driving force to give person stability, meaning, and fulfillment in life, faith in self. The purpose of this study is to assess the spirituality, spiritual wellbeing and perception towards spiritual care among nursing students. Methods: A Descriptive analytical study was conducted among 129 BSc Nursing students studying in a Nursing College attached to a Medical College Hospital of South India during the month of December 2020.Convenience sampling technique was adopted for the study. Spirituality assessment scale and spiritual well being assessment scale were used to collect the data.Pilot study was conducted and the study was found to be feasible. Permission from the authorities was obtained and data collection was done. The data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics and R software used for the analysis. Results: The result revealed the mean score of spirituality and spiritual wellbeing as 84.40(SD+_8.45) and 65.81(SD+_6.09) respectively and a statistically significant strong positive correlation was found between spirituality and spiritual wellbeing with correlation coefficient ( r ) 0.806 at p value < 0.0001. Conclusion: Spirituality is a significant concept for the discipline of nursing with profound consequences for caring patients. Spirituality is an important aspect of holistic care This study identified that there is a strong relationship between spirituality and spiritual wellbeing.So this study convey the significance of spirituality and spiritual well being in holistic care.

An Exploratory Study of Spiritual Dimensions Among Nursing Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary A Wehmer ◽  
Mary T Quinn Griffin ◽  
Ann H. White ◽  
Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Daily Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
The Relationship

This exploratory descriptive study of spiritual experiences, well-being, and practices was conducted among 126 nursing students. Participants reported a higher level of spiritual well-being and life scheme than self-efficacy for well-being and life-scheme. Thus, students appeared to view the world and their role in it slightly more positively than their ability to affect their lives and make decisions. The students reported the most frequent spiritual experiences as being thankful for blessings; the next most frequent spiritual experiences having a desire to be close to God, feeling a selfless caring for others, and finding comfort in one’s religion and spirituality. Students used both conventional and unconventional spiritual practices. Further study is necessary to study the relationship among spiritual practices, daily spiritual experiences, and spiritual well-being among nursing students and to evaluate these before and after implementation of specific educational offerings focused on spirituality and spiritual care in nursing.

scholarly journals Spiritual Care in Nursing Practice in Veteran Health Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 233339361984311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Burkhart ◽  
Anna Bretschneider ◽  
Sharon Gerc ◽  
Mary E. Desmond
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Veteran Health ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Organization Policy ◽  
Veteran Health Care

Spiritual care is important in nursing practice, and spiritual well-being and spiritual care are associated with better health. Military veterans, a unique patient population, want spiritual care to cope with chronic conditions. It is unclear whether spiritual care is provided in veteran health care in the United States. This study used a qualitative descriptive method, guided by the Spiritual Care in Nursing Practice (SCNiP) theory, to describe spiritual care in nursing practice and facilitators/barriers in veteran health care. Individual interviews were conducted with 39 registered nurses (RNs) at a U.S. veteran health system. Findings were consistent with the SCNiP theory but revealed additional categorical attributes and processes as it applied to veteran health care. Facilitators that promoted spiritual care include nurse professionalism, collegial support, and available spiritual resources. Barriers included lack of time, task-oriented culture, unclear knowledge of accessing resources, and unclear organization policy in providing spiritual care. Findings further refined the theory.

The possibilities and challenges in providing pediatric spiritual care

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willyane de Andrade Alvarenga ◽  
Emilia Campos de Carvalho ◽  
Sílvia Caldeira ◽  
Margarida Vieira ◽  
Lucila Castanheira Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Holistic Care ◽  
Nursing Interventions ◽  
Pediatric Nurses ◽  
Health Care Settings ◽  
Expected Outcomes

The purpose of this article was to present discussions on how pediatric nurses can perform spiritual care to children and adolescents and discuss the challenges of integrating such care in health-care settings. Based on the literature, the article presents an overview of spiritual care in pediatric settings highlighting the assessment of spirituality, expected outcomes, and the corresponding nursing interventions. Spiritual care provided to children and adolescents should take into account all aspects of the developmental stage, life experiences, and familiar and sociocultural contexts. Different approaches can be used to perform spiritual care. However, lack of knowledge and time are highlighted as the main challenges in integrating spiritual care into the clinical practice. Spiritual care is crucial to the well-being of children and adolescents in times of illness and hospitalization when the goal is to provide holistic care.

scholarly journals Assessment of Spiritual Health and Well-Being of Psychiaric Nurses in a Mental Health Hospital

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Maria Frani Ayu Andari Dias
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Health ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Spiritual Well Being

The practice of mental health care performed by nurses in mental hospitals requires nurses to also provide spiritual care. Nurses who have a healthy spiritual state can certainly provide good spiritual care to their patient. Unfortunately, nurses admit that in practice, this spiritual element is often overlooked and not considered important in practice. This study aims to examine the health and spiritual well-being of mental health nurses working in mental health care facilities (hospital based). This research was a pilot study using Mix Method (MM), the design of this study was a sequential research design (Qual-Quant) between quantitative and qualitative study. Data collection was carried out using a self-administered survey and using the SHALOM (Spiritual Health and life orientation measure) instrument from Fisher which had a total of 22 questions. Quantitative data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics, while qualitatively, the data were analyzed using the thematic analysis method. A total of 22 mental health nurses participated in this research project. This number represents the nurses who work in all wards in mental hospitals. Researchers used the cluster sampling method to select participants who were given questionnaires and the snowball sampling method to find suitable informants to be interviewed. This research shows nurses expressing worship of the Creator (Mean = 4.54, SD = 0.59) as the most important thing in the ideal standard of health and spiritual well-being. Likewise, with daily life and practice (Mean = 3.81, SD = 1.68). Nurses assess their health and spiritual well-being were more determined by the transcendental domain, especially with religious rituals. This study concluded that nurses have a well-distributed state of health and spiritual well-being ranging from the personal domain to transcendence, with dominance in the transcendence domain.

Relationship of Spiritual well-being and emotional intelligence among Iranian' nursing students

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1634-1640
Author(s):  
Javad Jafari ◽  
Asra Nassehi ◽  
Mohammadali Zareez ◽  
Seydamalek Dadkhah ◽  
Najmeh Saberi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
The Mean ◽  
High Level ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Religious Wellbeing

Background: Among all aspects of nursing care, the spiritual one is the issue that has received little attention. Having spiritual wellbeing (SWB) is a necessity to provide appropriate spiritual care. In addition to, the Emotional intelligence (EI) is one of the most important factors in social and professional success and is essential for effective nursing practice. Therefore, aim of study was evaluating the Relationship between SWB and EI among nursing students. Methods: The sample of this descriptive-analytic study consisted of 136 nursing students studying at Bam University of Medical Sciences selected by convenience sampling method. The Bradberry and Greaves 28-item EI scale, Palutzian and Ellison SWB Scale were used to assess the total score of EI and SWB. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation), Pearson correlation coefficient, independent t-test and one-way ANOVA with SPSS v18. Results: The mean score of SWB and EI were 97.1±11.56 and 123.4 + 123.6, respectively. The mean score dimensions of SWB include (religious wellbeing 47.9±6.6, existential wellbeing 49.1±5.7) and dimensions EI: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management were 27.2 3 3.2, 36.2 2 5.4, 25.1 + 3.5 and 35.1 + 4.5, respectively. The majority of students have reported moderate level SWB and high level of emotional intelligence. The factors influencing their level of SWB were academic semester and age (p<0.05). Conclusion: Although the level of students' EI and SWB were at a desirable level in this study, due to the nature of nursing and the interaction between nurses and patients, providing a suitable learning environment for the development of EI is essential. Therefore, it is suggested that nursing policymakers should develop appropriate educational programs for nurses and provide curriculum for students to promote their knowledge and skills. Keywords: spiritual, religious, wellbeing, existential, nursing, emotional intelligence

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