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Spiritual care activities of nurses using Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) labels
Roberta Cavendish1, Lynda Konecny, Claudia Mitzeliotis
1College of Staten Island/City, University of New York, Brooklyn, USA. RCavendish@prodigy.net
Summary
Nurses provide 32 distinct spiritual care activities, offering new insights into core practices. Utilizing the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) can standardize documentation of these essential patient interventions.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Healthcare Interventions
- Patient Care
Background:
- Spiritual care is a crucial aspect of holistic nursing practice.
- Standardized methods for documenting spiritual care interventions are needed.
- Existing frameworks may not fully capture the breadth of nurses' spiritual care activities.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify and describe the spiritual care activities performed by nurses.
- To map these activities to existing labels within the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC).
Main Methods:
- Utilized data from a larger study involving 1,000 Sigma Theta Tau International members.
- Employed a multiple triangulation research design.
- Data analysis included descriptive statistics, multivariate statistics, and content analysis.
Main Results:
- 97 respondents reported engaging in 32 distinct spiritual care activities.
- Ten specific NIC labels were identified as mapping to these nurses' spiritual care activities.
- The identified activities represent a broad spectrum of interventions.
Conclusions:
- Nurses' spiritual care activities are diverse and potentially patient-specific.
- The study provides new knowledge on core spiritual care interventions.
- The Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) can aid in documenting spiritual care across various settings.
- Increased specificity in describing spiritual care interventions is supported for knowledge advancement.