Kenny Gerard, Ashley Martin
Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England, UK.
J Child Health Care. 2005 Sep;9(3):174-85. doi: 10.1177/1367493505054415.
Children's nurse educators have to rely predominantly on adult-based literature to guide their educational practice concerning spirituality in the nursing curriculum. The aim of this study was to get a children's nursing perspective. A questionnaire was designed around the main themes emerging from the adult literature on spirituality. This was distributed to children's nurses on the undergraduate curriculum at a UK university. The results showed that some of the challenges of delivering spirituality are common to both adult and children's nursing. However, there were also significant differences revolving around the impact that children and families had in informing students' understanding of spirituality, and the problems of seeking a unified theory of spirituality in a children's nursing context. It concludes that children's nursing has important lessons to learn from the adult literature; however, it must strive to construct its own insights and use this understanding to inform educational approaches to the topic.
儿童护理教育工作者在护理课程中指导与灵性相关的教育实践时，主要不得不依赖基于成人的文献。本研究的目的是获取儿童护理方面的观点。围绕成人灵性文献中出现的主要主题设计了一份问卷。该问卷分发给了英国一所大学本科课程中的儿童护士。结果表明，在提供灵性护理方面的一些挑战在成人护理和儿童护理中是共有的。然而，在儿童和家庭对学生理解灵性的影响，以及在儿童护理背景下寻求统一的灵性理论方面也存在显著差异。研究得出结论，儿童护理可以从成人文献中学到重要经验；然而，它必须努力构建自己的见解，并利用这种理解为该主题的教育方法提供信息。
