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  • Acute care nurses’ perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care: an exploratory study in Singapore

    Author(s)
    Chew, Brendan WK
    Tiew, Lay Hwa
    Creedy, Debra K
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Creedy, Debra K.
    Year published
    2016
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    Aims and objectives. To investigate acute care nurses’ perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care and relationships with nurses’ personal and professional characteristics. Background. Spirituality and spiritual care are often neglected or absent in daily nursing practice. Nurses’ perceptions of spirituality can be influenced by personal, professional and social factors and affect the provision of spiritual care. Design. A cross-sectional, exploratory, nonexperimental design was used. Methods. All nursing staff (n = 1008) from a large acute care hospital in Singapore were invited to participate. Participants completed a ...
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    Aims and objectives. To investigate acute care nurses’ perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care and relationships with nurses’ personal and professional characteristics. Background. Spirituality and spiritual care are often neglected or absent in daily nursing practice. Nurses’ perceptions of spirituality can be influenced by personal, professional and social factors and affect the provision of spiritual care. Design. A cross-sectional, exploratory, nonexperimental design was used. Methods. All nursing staff (n = 1008) from a large acute care hospital in Singapore were invited to participate. Participants completed a demographic form and the Spiritual Care-Giving Scale. Completed surveys were received from 767 staff yielding a response rate of 76%. Descriptive statistics and General Linear Modelling were used to analyse data. Results. Acute care nurses reported positive perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care. Religion, area of clinical practice and view of self as spiritual were associated with nurses’ reported perspectives of spirituality and spiritual care. Conclusion. Nurses working in this acute care hospital in Singapore reported positive perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care. Respondents tended to equate religion with spirituality and were often unclear about what constituted spiritual care. They reported a sense of readiness to apply an interprofessional approach to spiritual care. However, positive perceptions of spirituality may not necessarily translate into practice. Relevance to clinical practice. Spiritual care can improve health outcomes. Nurses’ understanding of spirituality is essential for best practice. Interprofessional collaboration with clinicians, administrators, educators, chaplains, clergy and spiritual leaders can contribute to the development of practice guidelines and foster spiritual care by nurses. Further research is needed on the practical applications of spiritual care in nursing.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Clinical Nursing
    Volume
    25
    Issue
    17-18
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13290
    Subject
    Nursing
    Nursing not elsewhere classified
    Health services and systems
    Public health
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/142964
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