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J D Emblen

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PubMed1993

Spiritual needs and interventions: comparing the views of patients, nurses, and chaplains.

Because of the current trend to use the term spiritual in a broad context that includes religious aspects as a component, along with others such as transcendence and relational aspects, it is essential to clarify what people mean when they use the term. The researchers designed a descriptive (qualitative) study to collect interview data to determine how patients, nurses, and chaplains currently are defining the phrases spiritual needs and spiritual interventions. The researcher interviewed and recorded the responses of 19 surgical patients, 12 nurses, and 7 chaplains to identify their definitions and the specific interventions they thought nurses and chaplains should use to meet spiritual needs. The interviews were analyzed and definitions of spiritual needs were classified according to six categories: religious, values, relationships, transcendence, affective feeling, and communication. Respondents identified five common nursing interventions: prayer, scripture, presence, listening, and referral.

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Religion and spirituality defined according to current use in nursing literature.

The nursing literature published from 1963 to 1989 was screened for definitions to distinguish the concept of religion from that of spirituality. Following concept analysis procedures, definitions were selected from journal articles and textbooks and the key words in the definitions were listed in order of frequency. In definitions of religion, six words appeared most frequently--system, beliefs, organized, person, worship, practices; in definitions of spirituality, nine words appeared most frequently--personal, life, principle, animator, being, God (god), quality, relationship, transcendent. Only the word person(al) appeared on both lists. Using these two lists, the words (defining attributes) that appeared most frequently were formed as consensus definitions. It was concluded that spirituality is currently the broader term and may subsume aspects of religion. If these concepts are not clearly defined, the care related to personal life principles, relationships, and transcendent experiences may be confused with care for personal beliefs and worship practices.

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Comparison of nurses' self-directed learning activities.

This study compares the self-directed learning (SDL) practices of baccalaureate (40) and master's (40) nurses. Using a personal interview format, nurses were queried as to the number and nature of their SDL projects. Based on the study data, nurses spend a greater portion of their SDL time on professional area content. Respondents indicated they spend an average of 313 hours per year on independent learning projects with 217 of those hours on professional topics. Master's-prepared nurses spend more time per year (398 hours) and slightly more time on professional content (71%) compared to the time baccalaureate-prepared nurses spend per year (230 hours) on professional content (67%). Implications for nursing education are identified with respect to learner motivation and accessibility of materials.

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