The relationship of nursing students' spiritual care perspectives to their expressions of spiritual empathy.

Guided by Chism's Middle-Range Theory of Spiritual Empathy, the overarching purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which nursing students' spiritual care perspectives account for their expressions of spiritual empathy. In this descriptive correlational study, spiritual care perspectives accounted for 8.6% of the variance in nursing students' (N = 223) expressions of spiritual empathy after controlling for relevant demographic and spirituality variables. Findings of the study suggest that the provision of spiritual care in nursing practice depends, in part, on nurses clarifying their own spiritual care perspectives.

Chism LA ，Magnan MA 《JOURNAL OF NURSING EDUCATION》

Spiritual perspectives of nursing students.

Shores CI 《-》

Teaching on the spiritual dimension in care: the perceived impact on undergraduate nursing students.

Baldacchino DR 《NURSE EDUCATION TODAY》

Investigating spiritual care perceptions and practice patterns in Hong Kong nurses: results of a cluster analysis.

Chan MF ，Chung LY ，Lee AS ，Wong WK ，Lee GS ，Lau CY ，Lau WZ ，Hung TT ，Liu ML ，Ng JW ... -  《NURSE EDUCATION TODAY》

The development of nursing students' spirituality and spiritual care-giving.

Nursing education programs are being increasingly challenged to incorporate spirituality and spiritual care-giving into the curriculum. The purposes of this study were to explore how students in a baccalaureate curriculum perceived their spirituality and spiritual health, and their perceptions of spiritual nursing care. Students in the first and fourth years of the program filled out a survey that included a spiritual well-being scale and several open-ended questions. Overall, students had a strong awareness of personal spirituality and a high level of spiritual health. They identified a number of behaviours and characteristics of the nurse that facilitated spiritual nursing care. Fourth year students demonstrated a more patient-centered approach to spiritual care. They placed less emphasis on the nurse's agenda and qualities and more on supporting the patient's beliefs.

Pesut B 《NURSE EDUCATION TODAY》