The Effects of a Spiritual Learning Program on Improving Spiritual Health and Clinical Practice Stress Among Nursing Students

Hsiao, Ya-Chu; Chiang, Hui‐Ying; Lee, Hsiang‐Chun; Chen, Su-Hui

doi:10.1097/jnr.0b013e318273642f

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“…World Health Organization (2006) estimated a shortage of over 4.3 million nurses worldwide. As the problems of nurse shortage and increase of nursing student graduates who tend not to pursue nursing career continue to exist, it is important for nursing educators to find out the factors which may cause depressive symptoms among nursing students, and further develop strategies to effectively manage nursing students' stress and depressive problems during their nursing education (Hsiao et al 2012). Therefore, this study aimed to explore the problems of depressive symptoms and related factors among junior college nursing students.…”

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The prevalence and related factors of depressive symptoms among junior college nursing students: a cross‐sectional study

Chen

Sung

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Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Nursing students have particularly experienced stressful lives during nursing education. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate depressive symptoms and related factors in junior college nursing students. A total of 625 nursing students from a junior college in Taiwan were assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Adolescent Depression Inventory, Situational Anxiety Scale and the Taiwanese-Chinese version of Stress in Nursing Students Scale. The results showed that (1) the prevalence of depressive symptoms among junior college nursing students was 32.6%; (2) depressive symptoms are significantly related to grade point average, interest in nursing, interest in their clinical placement, career planning after graduation, overeating as a stress-relief strategy, sleep problems, stress, and anxiety; and (3) anxiety, sleep quality, and stress are three major variables that can significantly predict depressive symptoms. Psychological factors may influence young nursing students' willingness to seek assistance from teachers. These factors should be considered when designing strategies to promote their emotional health and well-being. Nursing educators can plan appropriate strategies tailored to junior college nursing students' problems and needs, which thereby may facilitate learning experience and prevent depressive symptoms.

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The prevalence and related factors of depressive symptoms among junior college nursing students: a cross‐sectional study

Chen

Sung

et al. 2015

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…[8,9] There is a positive association identified between health outcomes and spirituality. [10] Further, the Joint Commission has recognized the importance of spiritual care. [11] It is acknowledged by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and is included in the 2008 Essentials of Baccalaureate Education.…”

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Teaching spirituality to student nurses

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Thompson

2014

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Since Florence Nightingale, spiritual care has been embraced in professional nursing as the integration and promotion of purpose and meaning in life. Research reports that nurses have a prominent regard for spiritual care and acknowledge that it is part of their role. The intention of this literature review is to explore effective ways for nursing faculty to teach spiritual care. This in turn will help to advance spiritually educated nurses who can rise above obstacles to providing spiritual care to clients. During the nursing formation process, spiritual care must be integrated into the nursing curricula throughout the didactic and clinical nursing education. Numerous nurses today consider themselves underprepared to meet the spiritual needs of their clients, despite nursing's past dedication to spiritual care. Research further supports the appeal of clients to have their spiritual needs addressed while hospitalized. Given the suitable resources and education, nurses can be positioned to address the spiritual care of clients. Relevant nursing education on more effective ways to teach spiritual care will enhance the delivery of this vital aspect of holistic nursing. The focus of holistic patient care is based on the Neuman systems model, where the spiritual variable considerations are necessary for a truly holistic perspective and caring concern for the patient. As part of a successful pedagogy, a course of action and theory-based approach must be translated into preparing student nurses to incorporate spiritual care into their emerging practices.

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“…This scale comprises 24 questions across five dimensions: bonding with others, searching for meaning, overcoming adversity, religious faith, and selfknowledge. This scale has a Cronbach α coefficient of 0.93, with subscale values ranging from 0.77 to 0.89 [61]. The scale's use has reached a level of maturity, and it has been steadily optimized.…”

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“…The goal of spiritual care training for nurses is to help them understand the methods and techniques that they can use to provide spiritual care to their patients. During this process, nurses' selfperceptions of spirituality are inevitably raised, and true spiritual clinical nursing practice will have a major, albeit intangible, effect on nurses' own spiritual health and their cognition of additional psychological aspects [41,43,49,61]. Through the group intervention, the nurses expressed their feelings, which gave them an opportunity to review their own spiritual needs.…”

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Effectiveness of spiritual care training to enhance spiritual health and spiritual care competency among oncology nurses

Jiao

2019

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Background: Although spiritual care is a basic element of holistic nursing, nurses' spiritual care knowledge and abilities are often unable to satisfy patients' spiritual care needs. Therefore, nurses are in urgent need of relevant training to enhance their abilities to provide patients with spiritual care. Design: A nonrandomized controlled trial. Objective: To establish a spiritual care training protocol and verify its effectiveness. Methods: This study recruited 92 nurses at a cancer treatment hospital in a single province via voluntary sign-up. The nurses were divided into two groups—the study group (45 people) and the control (wait-listed) group (47 people)—using a coin-toss method. The study group received one spiritual care group training session every six months based on their routine nursing education; this training chiefly consisted of lectures by experts, group interventions, clinical practice, and case sharing. The control group participated in monthly nursing education sessions organized by the hospital for 12 continuous months. Results: After 12 months of intervention, the nurses in the study group had significantly higher overall spiritual health and spiritual care competency scores as well as significantly higher scores on all individual dimensions compared with those in the control group (P<0.01). Conclusions: A spiritual care training protocol for nurses based on the concept of mutual growth with patients enhances nurses' spiritual well-being and spiritual care competencies.

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The Effects of a Spiritual Learning Program on Improving Spiritual Health and Clinical Practice Stress Among Nursing Students

Cited by 28 publications

References 26 publications

The prevalence and related factors of depressive symptoms among junior college nursing students: a cross‐sectional study

The prevalence and related factors of depressive symptoms among junior college nursing students: a cross‐sectional study

Teaching spirituality to student nurses

Effectiveness of spiritual care training to enhance spiritual health and spiritual care competency among oncology nurses

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