Supporting patients' and families' religious and spiritual needs in <scp>ICU</scp> – can we do more?

Timmins, Fiona; Naughton, Margaret Theresa; Plakas, Sotirios; Pesut, Barbara

doi:10.1111/nicc.12177

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“…In a study by Wu et al (2016), it was also found that 87.5% of participants did not receive proper education and expressed the need for further education [ 22 ]. In this regard, many studies have found that nurses are not adequately trained in this field, which is one of the important reasons for neglecting spiritual care [ 12 , 25 , 28 ].…”

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“…In the meantime, patients in critical care units require more mental and spiritual considerations because on the one hand, these patients are faced with some critical situations such as the sense of approaching death, suffering, isolation, fear, vulnerability and complete dependence and on the other hand, today’s modern approaches, which are disease-focused, have replaced the patient-focused approach in critical care units [ 12 ].…”

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Assessing the Effect of Spiritual Intelligence Training on Spiritual Care Competency in Critical Care Nurses

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Aim & Objective Due to the importance of spiritual care as a part of holistic care, this study aimed to investigate the effect of spiritual intelligence training on the nurses’ competence in spiritual care in critical care units. Methods The study was performed on 82 nurses (40 in the experimental group and 42 in the control group). Participants were selected from critical care units of teaching hospitals affiliated to Lorestan University of Medical Sciences1. The experimental group took part in eight sessions of spiritual intelligence training, held in the form of workshops. In the control group, no intervention was made. The scale for assessing nurses’ competencies in spiritual care was completed before, immediately and one month after the sessions in two groups. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software version 15. Results The results showed that spiritual intelligence training had a positive effect on nurses’ competence in spiritual care. Also, 89% of the nurses who participated in the study had not been given any prior education regarding spiritual care. Nurses considered barriers to spiritual care including inadequate staff, cultural differences, high workload and lack of education on this subject. Conclusions The present results showed that the training of spiritual intelligence could develop the nurses’ competence in spiritual care. The development of spiritual care provided by nurses can result in various outcomes such as increased satisfaction with care in patients, reduced anxiety and symptoms of depression during hospitalization, reduced length of hospitalization and, in general, improved quality of life.

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Assessing the Effect of Spiritual Intelligence Training on Spiritual Care Competency in Critical Care Nurses

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“…The intensive care unit (ICU) has been described as lonely, mechanized, and dehumanizing. 1 It is a care setting where patients and their family members commonly experience fear and often contemplate the possibility of death. 2 –5 These experiences are often accompanied by profound emotional distress.…”

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Spiritual Care in the Intensive Care Unit: A Narrative Review

Nguyen

Lopes

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J Intensive Care Med

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Spiritual care is an important component of high-quality health care, especially for critically ill patients and their families. Despite evidence of benefits from spiritual care, physicians and other health-care providers commonly fail to assess and address their patients' spiritual care needs in the intensive care unit (ICU). In addition, it is common that spiritual care resources that can improve both patient outcomes and family member experiences are underutilized. In this review, we provide an overview of spiritual care and its role in the ICU. We review evidence demonstrating the benefits of, and persistent unmet needs for, spiritual care services, as well as the current state of spiritual care delivery in the ICU setting. Furthermore, we outline tools and strategies intensivists and other critical care medicine health-care professionals can employ to support the spiritual well-being of patients and families, with a special focus on chaplaincy services.

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“… needs of meaningful life,  needs of meaning of self-existence,  needs of love,  needs of hope,  needs of spirituality,  needs of realization of spiritual rituals and practice,  needs of forgiveness. Timmins et al (2015) wrote that clergymen should be a part of a multidisciplinary team, which take care of patient and family. Clergymen should not be just for spiritual rituals, but they should care for other family members, as support, when they need to talk about the meaning of existence and help them cope with illness and loss.…”

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Family Needs of Incurable Ill Children in the Context of Special Education

Nagyová

Harčaríková

2019

CBUP

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Incurable disease of children is one of the most difficult periods in the life of a family. The family must adapt to the new challenges that bring the illness and everything adapts to the needs of the child. However, we often don´t realize and even don´t know that the family needs must also be fulfilled. The paper presents partial results of the research aimed at identifying the needs of the family with an incurable ill child in a special pedagogical context. For the collection of research data a semistructured interview with assistants working in the area of child palliative care was conducted. The obtained data were processed by qualitative analysis. The results point to the necessity of a transdisciplinary approach to children with incurable illness and their familiespsychologist, social worker, clergymen, and special educator.

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Supporting patients' and families' religious and spiritual needs in ICU – can we do more?

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Assessing the Effect of Spiritual Intelligence Training on Spiritual Care Competency in Critical Care Nurses

Assessing the Effect of Spiritual Intelligence Training on Spiritual Care Competency in Critical Care Nurses

Spiritual Care in the Intensive Care Unit: A Narrative Review

Family Needs of Incurable Ill Children in the Context of Special Education

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