A Spiritual Care Toolkit: An evidence‐based solution to meet spiritual needs

Abstract

A SC toolkit supplied with culturally sensitive faith resources supporting what patients and families value, believe and practice can be easily customised and implemented by any healthcare organisation in the world. Further investigation of SC toolkit effectiveness using multiple sites is recommended.

Promoting Spiritual Well-Being Among Nurses

“…Nurses can also be equipped with spiritual care toolkits to guide the provision of spiritual care. 40 Nurses often cite lack of time, education, and training, as well as lack of clarity in the role as spiritual caregiver, as barriers to providing spiritual care to patients and families. 41 Culturally diverse books, cards, music, and other conversation starters are tools that can facilitate the delivery of spiritual care.…”

“… 41 Culturally diverse books, cards, music, and other conversation starters are tools that can facilitate the delivery of spiritual care. 40 In a study of spiritual care toolkits, patients and families reported satisfaction with the spiritual care they received, and nurses felt the toolkit helped overcome barriers to providing spiritual care. 40 Nurse leaders can ensure that nurses have access to resources such as a spiritual care toolkit and receive education on how to use the contents.…”

“… 40 In a study of spiritual care toolkits, patients and families reported satisfaction with the spiritual care they received, and nurses felt the toolkit helped overcome barriers to providing spiritual care. 40 Nurse leaders can ensure that nurses have access to resources such as a spiritual care toolkit and receive education on how to use the contents. This method enables nurses to connect with patients through spiritual caregiving and may be mutually beneficial to the spiritual well-being of both caregiver and recipient.…”

Cultivating Students' Practice of Prayer with Patients

“…A more ethical approach is letting prayers be patient-led (Green, 2018). Kincheloe et al (2018) recommended strategies to decrease the obstacles for implementing spiritual care. Among these suggestions were customizing a spiritual care toolkit supplied with culturally sensitive faith resources-books, devotionals, hymnals, crosses and rosaries, music, and movies-and implementing spiritual communication training using these resources.…”

A ‘near‐life experience’: lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care

“…These would be thought of as 'ordinary' experiences, and general practices and beliefs close to the ones of undiagnosed people, usually considered as resources. These are also related to spiritual needs and in focus for nursing interventions (28)(29)(30). Experiences that go beyond the ordinary tend to be described in terms of religious delusions or hallucinations (31,32).…”