Abstract
BackgroundsAn understanding of the oncology nurse spiritual care competence would help nurse managers recognize weakness in spiritual practice and improve the quality of spiritual care. But the relationship between attitude towards death and spiritual care competence is unknown.MethodsWe recruited 326 nurses from hospitals in Guangzhou, China. The nurses completed the Chinese Spiritual Care Competence Scale and the Chinese Death Attitude Profile-Revised questionnaires.ResultsThe total score of spiritual care competence was 61.62 ± 16.10. And the lowest score of attitude towards death was for escape acceptance, 2.64 ± 0.82. Factors associated with nurse spiritual care competence were work department, whether trained in spiritual care, approaching acceptance, and escaping acceptance of attitude towards death.ConclusionNurses need to perfect their spiritual care competence and establish positive attitudes towards death.
Highlights
Spirituality is viewed as an essence, a driving force, and a self-supporting resource [1]
We found that nurses who been trained in spiritual care showed higher degrees of Spiritual care competence (SCC), which was similar to findings by Yang et al [15] and Hsieh et al [13]
It is imperative to enhance oncology nurse competence to address the spiritual needs of patients and improve patients quality of life
Summary
Spirituality is viewed as an essence, a driving force, and a self-supporting resource [1]. Spiritual care is the recognition and response to human spiritual needs. Spiritual care meets the needs of life meaning, self-worth, expressing oneself, and faith support [2]. Spiritual care is a required element of holistic health care. A recent concept analysis of spiritual care suggested that spiritual care includes healing presence, therapeutic use of self, intuitive sense, exploration of the spiritual perspective, patient-centeredness, meaning-centered therapeutic intervention, and creation of a spiritually nurturing environment [3]. Spiritual care competence (SCC) refers to an ability to assess and identify patient spiritual needs and implement
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