Spiritual Assessment in Healthcare: An Overview of Comprehensive, Sensitive Approaches to Spiritual Assessment for Use Within the Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team

McSherry, Wilfred; Ross, Linda; Balthip, Karnsunaphat; Ross, Natasha; Young, Sadie G.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04420-6_3

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“…This may be different from what is found in the hospice/end-of-life literature. According to McSherry et al (2019), to be treated with respect and dignity is one of the most crucial aspects of spiritual care. In our study, hospitalized people want to be treated nonjudgmentally and with respect, asked if they wish to proceed in the spiritual domain, and allowed to stop or defer the discussion at will.…”

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Hospitalized Patients’ Perspectives on Spiritual Assessment: A Mixed Methods Study

Cone

Giske

2020

J Holist Nurs

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Background: Research shows that spirituality is important, but patients report that nurses rarely address spiritual issues, and research from the patient viewpoint is limited. Aim: The research objective was to gain knowledge about hospitalized patients’ perspectives on spiritual assessment by nurses. Method: This is a mixed methods exploratory study reporting on quantitative/qualitative aspects of the patient perspective. Norwegian nurses in an acute care hospital distributed a 21-item spiritual assessment survey to patients they felt would not be burdened by completing it. Patients’ demographic data were not identifiable, survey packets were returned anonymously via hospital mail by 157 hospitalized patients. Each survey item and several variables on the demographic sheet had space for comments. Quantitative analysis used SPSS 21, qualitative data were thematically analyzed. Findings: Statistically significant correlations were found with all survey items. Hospitalized people reported high comfort with spiritual assessment by nurses. Qualitative findings revealed that patients had differing views on if, when, and how nurses should ask spiritual questions of them. Conclusions: It is important to identify patients’ perspectives in order to provide patient-centered holistic care. Understanding patient views will enlighten nurses and may promote spiritual care and improve patient health outcomes.

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Hospitalized Patients’ Perspectives on Spiritual Assessment: A Mixed Methods Study

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Giske

2020

J Holist Nurs

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“…Nurses are taught to look for cues, such as personal jewellery, books and pictures in the patient's room to enable better conversations (Giske & Cone, 2015). The use of cues has been suggested as helpful in terms of spiritual assessment (McSherry et al., 2019).…”

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“…The survey was especially designed for this study and consisted of four main parts: study information and informed consent; presentation of the vignette (see Box 1) and open questions; sociodemographic questions; and note of thanks. The open questions with free‐text response options were related to the 2Q‐SAM Assessment model (McSherry et al., 2019). The questions were as follows: Do you know such a situation from your professional practice?…”

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Vignettes as a novel research tool in spiritual care: A methods paper

Grabenweger,

Völz,

Bumes

et al. 2023

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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AimsTo discuss the construction and use of vignettes as a novel approach in spiritual care research and education.DesignMethods paper.MethodsIn this methods paper, the authors introduce the use of vignettes in spiritual care research and provide insight into the construction of vignettes. The vignette presented was part of a study of neurosurgical nurses' attitudes and responses to the spiritual needs of neuro‐oncology patients. The development process, consisting of four steps, is explained in this paper.ResultsUsing a vignette to explore nurses' attitudes towards spiritual care is an innovative way to understand what behaviours nurses consider appropriate in situations where the patient is seeking meaning and connection. Transparent description of the development process is crucial to ensure reproducibility.ConclusionThe use of theoretically constructed and validated vignettes in spiritual care research is new. Vignettes used in surveys have the potential to elicit nurses' responses to patients' search for meaning and connectedness.ImplicationsIn order to investigate nurses' attitudes and behaviours towards patients' spiritual needs, carefully constructed and validated vignettes are valuable research tools.ImpactVignettes have proven to be a valuable research tool in the social and health sciences. So far, their use as a survey instrument in spiritual care research has not been investigated. Therefore, this method paper introduces vignettes as a novel approach to spiritual care research. Our findings contribute to the further development of vignettes in nursing science, as there are similarities with case development and simulation training in nursing education.Reporting MethodReporting guideline is not applicable.Patient or Public ContributionNo patient or public contribution.

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“…Al poner los cinco sentidos en el cuidar se consigue una mejor comprensión de la realidad de la persona (McSherry, 2019) que se aproxima a lo trascendente desde los sentidos, "como puertas de acceso al mundo y como espacio de experiencia espiritual, nos abren la posibilidad de captar otras formas de vida, de una vida toda y compleja" (Espinosa, 2021, p. 199), con vistas a su objetivación con instrumentos de medida que puedan ser incluidos en la transformación de los sistemas sanitarios.…”

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La contribución de la teología de los sentidos en la estimativa del cuidado del final de la vida en sociedades espiritualmente plurales

Noriega

2022

RIB

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La persona que se enfrenta con el final de su vida tiene necesidades varias que deben ser satisfechas para un adecuado cuidado integral, que incluye la atención y el acompañamiento espiritual. La evolución hacia sociedades espiritualmente plurales y las novedosas posibilidades existentes reclaman una actualización de la sensibilidad del acompañante respecto a la persona doliente que atiende. La teología de los sentidos permite captar mejor la realidad del individuo enfermo y es una ayuda que puede ser incorporada en instrumentos que mejoren los estándares de evaluación cualitativa de la atención familiar o residencial.

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Spiritual Assessment in Healthcare: An Overview of Comprehensive, Sensitive Approaches to Spiritual Assessment for Use Within the Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Hospitalized Patients’ Perspectives on Spiritual Assessment: A Mixed Methods Study

Hospitalized Patients’ Perspectives on Spiritual Assessment: A Mixed Methods Study

Vignettes as a novel research tool in spiritual care: A methods paper

La contribución de la teología de los sentidos en la estimativa del cuidado del final de la vida en sociedades espiritualmente plurales

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