Student nurses' spiritual care competence and attitude: An online survey

Guo, Zhiqi; Zhang, Yan; Li, Pan; Qian-you, Zhang; Shi, Chunhong

doi:10.1002/nop2.1441

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“…The present study found the level of spiritual care competency to be at an average level, which was consistent with the results of other researchers [ 26 , 27 ], although it contrasted with the results of Jafari and Fallahi-Khoshknab [ 28 ] and Nasehi et al [ 29 ]. Kalkim et al reported that the level of spiritual care competency of nursing students in Turkey was not optimal [ 30 ].…”

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Spiritual care competency and its relationship with clinical self-efficacy in nursing students

Sahebi,

Barkhordari-Sharifabad

2023

BMC Med Educ

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Background Spiritual care occupies a special place in holistic care and improving the quality of services provided to patients. The component of clinical self-efficacy is recognized as a prerequisite for clinical capacity and competency. The current study determined the level of spiritual care competency and its relationship with clinical self-efficacy in nursing students. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted on 194 nursing students studying in medical sciences universities in Yazd, Iran, who were selected by convenient sampling. Data collection tools were a spiritual care competency scale and nursing students’ clinical self-efficacy questionnaire. The gleaned data were analyzed by SPSS20 using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results The mean scores of spiritual care competency and clinical self-efficacy of students were 70.29 ± 9.58 and 102.40 ± 21.57, respectively. The results of Pearson’s correlation coefficient test showed that clinical self-efficacy had a positive significant correlation with spiritual care competency (p = 0.04, r = 0.14). The mean score of spiritual care competency was higher in female students (71.10 ± 9.81) than male students (67.50 ± 8.23) with a statistically significant difference (p < 0.05). The regression test results suggested that clinical self-efficacy can be considered as a predictor of spiritual care competency. Conclusion The results revealed that spiritual care competency in nursing students was at an average level, and the higher the level of clinical self-efficacy is, the more developed the spiritual care competency will be. Thus, nursing educators and health system managers should pay special attention to improving the clinical self-efficacy of nursing students to develop their spiritual care competency.

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Spiritual care competency and its relationship with clinical self-efficacy in nursing students

Sahebi,

Barkhordari-Sharifabad

2023

BMC Med Educ

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“…Providing spiritual care requires trained caregivers [ 10 ]. In this sense, knowing what is expected from a caregiver could encourage managers and curriculum planners to promote, through education and training, the spiritual ability and competence of students and caregivers in delivering spiritual care [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ].…”

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Spiritual Care[Givers] Competence in Palliative Care: A Scoping Review

Costeira,

Querido,

Ventura

et al. 2024

Healthcare

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To deliver spiritual care, professionals must be skilled in physical, mental, social, and spiritual care. Spiritual care competence includes knowledge, behaviors, attitudes, and skills that enable successful or efficient care. This review aims to identify the scope of competence and the specific skills, knowledge, and attitudes used in providing spiritual care to people needing palliative care, and the main challenges and facilitators. A scoping review was developed using the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. Six databases (Web of Science; MEDLINE/Pubmed; Scopus; CINAHL; MedicLatina and SciELO) were searched in September 2023, with an update in January 2024. The resulting 30 articles were analyzed using a content analysis approach. Information was categorized into three domains: cognitive, affective, and functional (based on three personal resources: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal). Palliative care professionals face a lack of training and insufficient preparation to deliver spiritual care. Spiritual care competence depends on professional spiritual development and experience, spiritual intelligence (cognitive), spiritual humility (affective), and having a critical and reflexive mind (functional). In the future, palliative care should seek to improve competent spiritual care. This review could help clarify the real configuration of competent spiritual care and lead to improvements in a professional’s empowerment when delivering effective spiritual care to patients and families.

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“…While some studies have investigated the status and factors affecting nurses' SCC, most have adopted a variable‐centred approach that has focused on testing the relationships of each aspect of SCC with other variables (Guo et al., 2023; Jafari & Fallahi‐Khoshknab, 2021; Wang, Zhao, Zhang, et al., 2020). The person‐centred approach could solve the potential issues of identifying subgroups of nurses with different SCC.…”

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Competence and perceptions of spiritual care among clinical nurses: A multicentre cross‐sectional study

Guo,

Liu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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AimsTo identify latent profiles of competence and perceptions of spiritual care among clinical nurses and explore the possible influencing factors.BackgroundUnderstanding nurses' level of spiritual care competence and their perceptions and acceptance of such care is important, which could help devise nurse training programmes to address such competence in clinical nurses. However, research addressing interindividual variability in competence and perceptions among Chinese nurses is lacking.DesignMulticentre cross‐sectional study.MethodsNurses working in departments with critically ill patients from 12 community, 5 secondary and 10 tertiary hospitals in Shanghai completed a demographic information questionnaire and the Chinese versions of the Spiritual Care Competence Scale, Spiritual Care‐Giving Scale and Spiritual Perspectives Scale. The data were analysed using IBM SPSS v26.0 and Mplus version 8.3. Latent profile analysis identified subgroups with different levels of spiritual care competence.ResultsIn total, 1277 Chinese nurses were recruited. Four profiles of competence and perceptions of spiritual care were revealed: Low ability (23.8%), High ability (6.4%), High acceptance (34.9%) and Moderate (34.9%). The level of job position, spiritual care‐related education, hospital grade and nurses' perceptions and perspectives of spiritual care predicted the probability of profile memberships in their competence.ConclusionsThere was heterogeneity in the characteristics of spiritual care competence. Nursing managers can implement individualised interventions, including relevant training, according to the influencing factors of different competence profiles to improve the level of such competence among nurses.Relevance to Clinical PracticeThe results provide a new and expanded view of improving nurses' spiritual care competence. Interprofessional collaboration with clinicians, administrators, educators and spiritual leaders can contribute to the development of related education and training.Reporting MethodEQUATOR guidelines, STROBE checklist: cross‐sectional studies.Patient or Public ContributionAll participants were clinical nurses. Participants were informed they could withdraw from the study at any time.

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Student nurses' spiritual care competence and attitude: An online survey

Cited by 11 publications

References 45 publications

Spiritual care competency and its relationship with clinical self-efficacy in nursing students

Spiritual care competency and its relationship with clinical self-efficacy in nursing students

Spiritual Care[Givers] Competence in Palliative Care: A Scoping Review

Competence and perceptions of spiritual care among clinical nurses: A multicentre cross‐sectional study

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