Spiritual care is an inseparable element of nursing. Nurses have identified the importance of enhancing patient's spiritual health, and established nursing theories support holistic nursing care with special mention to spiritual component. The present study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of spiritual care training program on spiritual care competence of nurses in a selected setting. A pre experimental, one group pretest-post test study design was used with repeated measures. 10 hours training program was given to 50 nurses working in the stroke unit selected for the study and Kruskal wallis one way analysis of variance on rank was used to compare the nurses competence on spiritual care from pre-test to post test 1,posttest 2 and post-test 3.Intervention was found to be effective in significantly improving spiritual care competence of nurses
Spiritual Wellbeing is a state that provides inner harmony. It enables an individual to perform activities in accordance with ethical and religious beliefs in daily life. It facilitates coping among patients with chronic illness. The study discusses the findings related to spiritual wellbeing of patients with stroke and their experience related to spiritual care competence of nurses who were undergoing a training program in spiritual nursing care in the selected unit. A significant difference was found in the spiritual wellbeing of patients on day 10, day 15 and day 20 when compared to pre test (H=230.657 P<0.001). Patients experience related to the spiritual care competence of their nurses also has shown a significant difference from pre test to post test (Z=7,P< 0.001)
Emotional intelligence represented by emotional quotient indicates an individual's ability to identify, evaluate, control and express emotions. It can be considered even as a better predictor of success in an individual's career especially when one is in health care discipline. Objectives of the present study were to assess the emotional quotient of second year B.Sc. Nursing students, to assess the academic performance of Second year B.Sc. Nursing students and to determine the correlation between the emotional quotient and academic performance. The study included 39 second year B.Sc. nursing students from a selected College of Nursing at Kollam. Demographic proforma was used to collect the demographic variables. Emotional quotient was assessed using Emotional Quotient Self-Assessment Checklist and the academic performance was assessed by the scores obtained by the students in their First year B.Sc. Nursing Degree examination 2014. All the students were females in the age group of 18 years. The percentage of students with very high, high, moderate and very low emotional quotient was 10.25%, 69.23%, 17.95% and 2.56% respectively. The mean emotional quotient was 66.128 with standard deviation of 13.824. Regarding academic performance, no students belonged to the very high and very low category and 46.2%, 51.3% and 2.5% had high, moderate and low level of academic performance respectively. The mean academic performance was 55.656 with standard deviation was 8.831. Present study has shown a weak positive correlation of emotional quotient and academic performance among nursing students (r = 0.0521). No association was found between selected demographic variables, and academic performance and emotional quotient.
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