Aim: To explore how mental health professionals address spiritual care for outpatients in weekly multidisciplinary care meetings (MDM), and to explore the barriers and facilitators in the ways health professionals address spiritual care in those meetings. Method: Two teams of mental health professionals providing care for psychiatric outpatients are included. Qualitative data were collected from audio recordings of multidisciplinary meetings and from focus-group interviews afterwards. Data were analysed using ‘open coding’. Results: Spiritual care was not frequently addressed mostly due to the requirements of the health insurance reimbursement system. Aspects of spirituality addressed in these meetings pertained mainly to meaningful daily activities. Addressing spiritual care was facilitated, on the other hand, by a holistic focus on health and recovery-oriented care. Conclusion: In ambulatory mental healthcare spirituality is sparsely addressed and, when addressed, few aspects of spirituality come into view. Facilitating healthcare professionals’ awareness of their clinical perspective is an essential step to improve spiritual care for psychiatric outpatients.

This paper reports about what nursing students from a Dutch Christian university experience in this corona period during their internship and how they cope with challenges that come on their way. The aim of this study is to explore insights in student experiences offering input for reflections for all those who are involved in guidance of (Christian) nursing students in stressful situations during internships. This qualitative study was conducted by online semi structured interviews. The data reveals an impact on a professional and personal level en gives insight in the way students cope with this impact. It becomes clear that the impact is significant. Giving personal care, one of the core values of nursing, is being impeded. In general students respond to these challenges with resilience. Support of fellow nurses and personal faith helps them to cope with the challenges they were confronted with.