Identificador: TDX:2691
Autores: Terceño López, Cristina
Resumen:
ABSTRACT
Aim: To understand nursing team (NT) experience, about spirituality and spiritual needs at a
public hospital with 638 beds.
Background: Spiritual care was been considered as necessary to bring holistic care, avoiding
spiritual distress; and coping illness process.
Design: A phenomenological hermeneutic approach.
Method: The sample size were 16 nursing team staff (NT) -composed by 8 graduates and 8
assistants- from general hospitalization service and 10 from Onco-Hematology unit. Data
collection were consisted of in-depth interviews, after theoretical sampling.
Results: Spiritual care were a set of nursing activities differentiated from physical and
prescribed care. Additionally, there were three levels in NT experiences related to spiritual
care: The spiritual care nature, spiritual care self-perception, and coping spiritual care. Finally,
the identification of spiritual care requirements was made mostly by NT.
Discussion: Spiritual care requirements nor spiritual needs were not claimed, but religious
spiritual needs attention was directly required. Moreover, it was needed time and trust, and a
predisposition attitude taken by professionals to enable spiritual care. Nursing activities
related to spiritual care were not registered; nevertheless, although nursing spiritual care were
not a priority for biomedical models they were required and solved, even if NT felt not
prepared.
Conclusions: There were very little differences between graduates and assistants –related to
their caring activities–, and between participants from public and private areas, although the
main difference was associated to the dying process of patients and its implication for NT. Last,
there was no clearly established boundary between spiritual, psychological, or religious
attention, according to participant’s narrative.
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