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Cultivating Students' Practice of Prayer with Patients
Educating nurses on prayer enhances their ability to provide spiritual care. This practice strengthens the nurse-patient relationship and builds trust through ethical and appropriate prayer with patients.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Spiritual Care
- Healthcare Ethics
Background:
- Nurses require training in spiritual care to meet patient needs.
- Integrating prayer into nursing practice can enhance patient well-being.
- Ethical considerations are paramount when providing spiritual support.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the impact of educating prelicensure nurses on prayer.
- To assess how prayer education improves nurses' readiness for spiritual care.
- To examine the role of prayer in strengthening the nurse-patient relationship.
Main Methods:
- Educational interventions for prelicensure nursing students.
- Role-modeling of prayer by faculty and preceptors.
- Assessment of student skill development in praying with patients.
Main Results:
- Education improves nurses' skill and readiness to pray with patients.
- Learning to pray with patients strengthens the nurse-patient trusting relationship.
- Faculty role-modeling facilitates student competency in spiritual care.
Conclusions:
- Educating nurses on prayer is essential for effective spiritual care.
- Prayer education enhances the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship.
- Competency in spiritual care is developed through education and practice.
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