Nurses Exploring the Spirituality of Their Patients With Cancer: Participant Observation on a Medical Oncology Ward

Conclusions: During their daily caregiving to patients with a life-threatening illness, nurses have many opportunities to explore spiritual issues, but they do not often recognize them. If they do, they tend not to explore the spiritual issues. Implications for Practice: Communication training for nurses is necessary to develop skills for exploring the spiritual dimension in patients with cancer. In such training, attention to the misconception that such a conversation requires a lot of time and for recognizing signals from patients inviting an exploration of their concerns is necessary.
Source: Cancer Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Articles: Online Only Source Type: research