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Nurses enhance performance through prayer.

Roberta Cavendish1, Lynda Konecny, Barbara Kraynyak Luise

  • 1College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA. RCavendish@prodigy.net

Holistic Nursing Practice
|February 10, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Prayer can empower nurses for enhanced performance. This study details the prayerful activities and spiritual attitudes of 1000 nurses in the United States, offering insights into their interventions and perspectives.

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Psychology of Religion
  • Healthcare Performance

Background:

  • Spiritual perspectives influence healthcare professionals.
  • Understanding nurses' spiritual practices is crucial for holistic care.
  • Previous research highlights the need to explore nurses' attitudes and interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the prayerful activities of nurses in the United States.
  • To explore spiritual perspectives, interventions, and attitudes among nurses.
  • To understand the role of prayer in nurses' professional lives.

Main Methods:

  • Triangulation of research methods.
  • Analysis of data from a larger study.
  • Inclusion of a random sample of 1000 nurses.

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Main Results:

  • Detailed description of nurses' prayerful activities.
  • Insights into the spiritual perspectives and attitudes of nurses.
  • Identification of prayer as an intervention in nursing practice.

Conclusions:

  • Prayer can be an empowering factor for performance enhancement in nursing.
  • Spiritual interventions, including prayer, are relevant to nurses' attitudes and practices.
  • The study provides a foundation for further research into spirituality in nursing.