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The Importance of Spiritual Care in Nursing Practice
Mónica Veloza-Gómez, Lucy Muñoz de Rodríguez1, Claudia Guevara-Armenta2
1University of La Sabana, Chía-Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Purpose:
Explore what spiritual care means to nurses who work in emergency care units.
Design And Method:
Nine nursing professionals from an emergency care unit at a private health institution affiliated with the Universidad de La Sabana participated in this descriptive qualitative study. Nonparticipant observation, field notes, and in-depth interviews with a question guide were used to collect the data, which were analyzed by means of content analysis.
Results:
Three themes and their corresponding subthemes were identified with respect to the significance of spiritual care: (1) interpretation of spiritual care, (2) the patient and the family in spiritual care, and (3) the role of the nurse in spiritual care.
Conclusions:
These findings provide a deeper understanding of spiritual care in terms of its significance. They also acknowledge its importance to nursing practice in emergency care units. The significance of spiritual care is based on theoretical, scientific, and humanistic points of reference (the discipline of nursing) that strengthen the therapeutic relationship between the patient/family-nurse dyad. The study also offers evidence for holistic nursing practice that requires theoretical-academic, administrative, and assistance support.
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