A literature review was conducted to identify various definition and description of spiritual care. Spirituality is a unique concept and spiritual care gives strength and meaning in life (Mok.et al., 2010). Spiritual care is related to cultural background and belief (Yang, Narayanasamy, & Chang, 2011). Spiritual care is the connectedness with inner space and is the center of spirituality (Rykkje, Eriksson, & Raholm, 2011). Spiritual care is a subjective and dynamic concept that demonstrates the unique aspect of care and it integrates all the other aspects (Ramezani et al., 2014). Spiritual care is not only showing caring presence, respect and concern of meeting the needs of the body and mind of patients, but also fulfilling the needs of hope
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Defining attributes is an important step of concept analysis. A defining attribute differentiate a concept from surrounding concepts and provide a reflective intuition about the selected concept. The Attributes are defined to show the cluster of attributes that is related to the concept. Each concept has a number of related attributes, it is important to select an attribute which is closely related to the concept. The defining attributes change according to the understanding of a concept change or may change over time (Townsend & Scanlan, 201).The important defining attributes of this study has listed …show more content…
The antecedents of spiritual care are religious affiliation, sensitivity and intentionality, self-awareness, professional commitment, religious affiliation and transcendent awareness. The most important among these antecedents is transcendent awareness. In this aspect, nurse consider the human being a spiritual being and fulfill their individual spiritual needs. Many factors such as nurse’s spiritual awareness, spiritual issues in their personal life and education about spirituality can influence nurse’s awareness about spirituality. Another important antecedent is self-awareness, which include personal beliefs, morals, attitudes and personal experiences of nurses. Nurse’s religious belief, professional commitment and the ability to accept the feeling of others are important in meeting patient’s spiritual needs (Ramezani et al.,
Defining attributes is an important step of concept analysis. A defining attribute differentiate a concept from surrounding concepts and provide a reflective intuition about the selected concept. The Attributes are defined to show the cluster of attributes that is related to the concept. Each concept has a number of related attributes, it is important to select an attribute which is closely related to the concept. The defining attributes change according to the understanding of a concept change or may change over time (Townsend & Scanlan, 201).The important defining attributes of this study has listed …show more content…
The antecedents of spiritual care are religious affiliation, sensitivity and intentionality, self-awareness, professional commitment, religious affiliation and transcendent awareness. The most important among these antecedents is transcendent awareness. In this aspect, nurse consider the human being a spiritual being and fulfill their individual spiritual needs. Many factors such as nurse’s spiritual awareness, spiritual issues in their personal life and education about spirituality can influence nurse’s awareness about spirituality. Another important antecedent is self-awareness, which include personal beliefs, morals, attitudes and personal experiences of nurses. Nurse’s religious belief, professional commitment and the ability to accept the feeling of others are important in meeting patient’s spiritual needs (Ramezani et al.,