An Investigation of the Perceptions and Practices of Nursing Students Regarding Spirituality and Spiritual Care

Journal Title: Religions - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 8

Abstract

The aim of this research was to determine Turkish nursing students’ knowledge, practices and perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care and to investigate the relationship between their perceptions and their demographics. This study was a descriptive survey conducted at a nursing school providing degree-level education in the city of Manisa, in the western part of Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of the 400 nursing students. A nursing student sociodemographic form, a form on nursing students’ knowledge and practices of spirituality and spiritual care, and the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale were used to collect the data. Half of the students could meet patients’ or individuals’ spiritual needs, and the spiritual care that they gave was most frequently listening, empathy, and psychological support. The research findings were that nursing students’ perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care were “sufficiently” although not “very sufficiently” defined. Being female, being in the second year of education and seeing spiritual care education as necessary were determinants of their perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care.

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Asli Kalkim, Tulay Sagkal Midilli and Ebru Baysal

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  • EP ID EP25597
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Asli Kalkim, Tulay Sagkal Midilli and Ebru Baysal (2016). An Investigation of the Perceptions and Practices of Nursing Students Regarding Spirituality and Spiritual Care. Religions, 7(8), -. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-25597