What Is the Essence of Spiritual Care? A Danish Hospice Perspective

This study explored patients', relatives', and healthcare professionals' experience of life and caring practice in two Danish hospice settings. Using a phenomenological approach, four caring themes emerged from data analysis: recognized as an individual human being; caring as doing and being; caring for the whole body; and spaces of caring. Spiritual care was understood as providing whole-body experiences, respecting the patient, and involving the other person.

Source: Journal of Christian Nursing - June 14, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature: practice/research Source Type: research