Efficacy of a self‐study programme to teach spiritual care

Abstract

Findings suggest learning occurred for both students and RNs, regardless of whether they were at a religious institution or not. Relevance to clinical practice. These data indicate that this self-study programme was an effective approach to teach nurses about how to converse with patients about spirituality.

How Religosity and/or Spirituality Might Influence Self-Care in Diabetes Management : A Structured Review

“…There were five studies conducted with a range of qualitative methods, such as mixing individual and group interviews with ethnography; phenomenology and grounded theory; a focused ethnographic approach and face-to-face interviews; case study, participant observation and focus group; and, focus group and semi-structured interviews [10][11][12][13] . Among the quantitative studies, two studies included a pre and post-test experimental design 14,15 .…”

Teaching spirituality to student nurses

“…[44] One report investigated whether a self-study program can improve knowledge about communication skills and also if communication skills for spiritual care giving can be learned in like manner. [33] Findings suggested after completing a self-study interactive workbook, improvements toward attitude in spiritual caregiving, in knowledge about spiritual care communication, and skills in responding empathetically to spiritual pain were positively impacted. Additional findings showed improvement occurred irrespective of whether the learner worked at a religious institution or not and whether they were a registered nurse or student.…”

“…Spirituality is evident when patients relate to self and connect to others with love, reevaluate or trust existential beliefs, assign purpose and significance to life, find hope for their future, or express a need to understand and make sense of emotional pain and anguish. [33] Spiritual care is most simply defined as care that enables persons to meet three central universal sacred requirements that have the potential to make people concurrently resourceful and vulnerable. The needs are meaning and purpose, love and relatedness, and forgiveness.…”

“…It is assumed that nonreligious, religious and secular persons can share spiritual wants though these desires may be articulated and addressed in diverse ways. [33] Spirituality and religion are closely related for some authors, but this is not the case for everyone. [35] Both issues may overlap in practice and are important in the delivery of care.…”

“…Additional findings showed improvement occurred irrespective of whether the learner worked at a religious institution or not and whether they were a registered nurse or student. [33] An additional approach utilized is to expose students to literature on spirituality. Students were asked to research an aspect of spirituality that relates to health.…”