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Engelsk titel: Spiritual care - definition of the concept and difficulties providing it according to Swedish nursing
staff
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Författare:
Lundmark M
Email: mikael.lundmark@religion.umu.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 36
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 06013912
Sammanfattning
The study aims at investigating
how nursing staff on a Swedish
oncology clinic describes the concept
spiritual care and finding out
which difficulties they see in providing
spiritual care. A definition of
the concept is constructed from the
result of an earlier study by Strang,
Strang & Ternestedt (2002). This
definition, together with a questionnaire
comprising the operationalization
of the aims was handed out
to nursing staff at a Swedish oncology
clinic. Data was obtained
from 46 staff members and analyzed
with content analyze. The result
shows a broad spectrum of problems
associated with giving spiritual
care, for example the nursing
staff’s own relationship to religion,
lack of education, bad organisation
or other practical problems.
The definition is complemented
by the result of this study giving a
more precise definition:
Spiritual care means making possible/
facilitating for the patient,
with help of suitable nursing
interventions, to express and discuss
existential questions and to
practise his/her spirituality
(which may be done through the
practising of a specific religion
but also through activities which
do not need to be of religious
nature). Such suitable nursing
interventions are characterized
by an ambition to create space
for spirituality and/or an atmosphere
of humanity and security.