Exploring Islamic Based Caring Practice in Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study

Abstract

Background: Even the advanced technology of modalities in intensive care unit (ICU) has been required a lot, it is important to date that nurses understand the Islamic faithbased healing in the holistic nursing care. Purpose: A phenomenological approach was conducted to describe the caring behaviors based on Islam for the patients in ICU from the perspective of nurses and patients' family. Methods: Fourteen ICU nurses and 10 families participated in the study. In-depth interviews with nurses and families were conducted. The data were analyzed using inductive content analysis. Results: The findings revealed that Islamic-based caring in ICU was connecting to God (Allah), being present with patients and family, and nurses were an instrument to assist the patients and family to be faith in God. In addition, some barriers regarding Islamic based caring practice were presented, such as limited of knowledge and skill to provide Islamic based caring. Conclusion: Islamic based caring is very important in practicing the balance of body, mind, and spirit. It is suggested that the nurses are applying Islamic based caring improve the quality of care related to cultural care. The next investigation is needed to measure the nurse caring behavior based on Islamic perspective.

Exploring the Caring Incorporating Yoga Program in Promoting Physical Recovery of Stroke Patients in Acute Phase

“…A trusted relationship based on understanding and respect gained from the stroke patients and family was paramount in enhancing the capacity of the stroke patients to self-care for their recovery. It was reported that a good nurse-client relationship is crucial to help the clients meet their healthcare needs [46], optimize the sense of recovery [24,47], and harmonize body-mind-spirit [21] for stroke patients. In the present study, caring was initially overlooked by the nurses in the clinical practice.…”

“…The nurse participants have learnt that the caring incorporating yoga was easy, practical and did not burden their workload as their prior thought. Instead, caring could be rewarding and ful lling [48], the nurses felt proud and satis ed by the positive responses and health outcomes of the patients as well as the uplift of nurse profession that was also reported by previous studies [21,24,25]. Therefore, caring is the central concept of nursing which also facilitates to established relationship and trust that resulted in capacity to self-care caring to self and the patients, and nally achieved expected health outcomes in the patients in acute phase.…”

“…Caring is the main essence of nursing that manifests in nurses' action and behaviors through building a nurse-patient relationship [20]. Researchers claimed that the concept of caring and spiritual practice if paired together acted as a powerful tool that has the potential to create good caing relationship among nurse, patient and family [21]. Through caring relationship, active communication, information [22] and caring atmosphere were created that promote self-care ability, con dence, coping and holistic wellbeing of patients [23] and facilitate healing process even in a critical stage of illness [21,24,25].…”

Exploring the Caring Incorporating Yoga Program in Promoting Physical Recovery of Stroke Patients in Acute Phase

“…A trusted relationship based on understanding and respect gained from the stroke patients and their families was paramount in enhancing the capacity of the stroke patients to self-care for their recovery. It was reported that a good nurse-client relationship is crucial to help the clients meet their healthcare needs [46], optimize the sense of recovery [24,47], and harmonize body-mind-spirit [21] for stroke patients. In the present study, caring was initially overlooked by the nurses in the clinical practice.…”

“…Caring is the main essence of nursing that manifests in nurses' actions and behaviors through building a nurse-patient relationship [20]. Researchers claimed that the concepts of caring and spiritual practice, if paired together, act as a powerful tool that has the potential to create good caring relationship among nurse, patient and patient's family [21]. Through caring relationship, active communication, information [22] and caring atmosphere were created that promote self-care ability, con dence, coping and holistic wellbeing of patients [23], which facilitates healing process even in a critical stage of illness [21,24,25].…”