Institute of Health Sciences, The Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal.
J Nurs Manag. 2012 Dec;20(8):1069-75. doi: 10.1111/jonm.12034.
This article aims to explore spiritual care in the neonatal care environment in addition to highlighting the importance of spiritual leadership of a health team in that context.
Neonatal care is an ethically demanding and stressful area of practice. Babies and families require spiritual needs to be recognized in the context of holistic care. Literature around spiritual leadership is explored to nurture workplace spirituality.
Analysis of a range of sources provides a theoretical reflection on spiritual leadership and spiritual care in neonatal care settings.
The literature identifies that the carers should consider carefully on how care given may affect the infant and family. Themes relating to the baby's and family's spiritual needs and those of the staff in this area are identified. Spiritual leadership by the manager will provide support to the staff and help spiritual need to be met in this area of practice.
Spiritual needs should be acknowledged within neonatal care whether these are of babies, families or the team itself.
Managers have responsibility to ensure that spiritual care is carried out for babies and their families and to care for the team as spiritual leaders.
本文旨在探讨新生儿护理环境中的精神关怀,并强调在这种情况下,医疗团队的精神领导力的重要性。
新生儿护理是一个伦理要求高且压力大的实践领域。婴儿和家庭在全面护理的背景下需要被认识到他们的精神需求。探索精神领导力文献以培养工作场所的精神性。
对各种来源的分析提供了对新生儿护理环境中的精神领导力和精神关怀的理论反思。
文献指出护理人员应仔细考虑所提供的护理如何影响婴儿和家庭。确定了与婴儿和家庭的精神需求以及该领域工作人员的精神需求相关的主题。经理的精神领导力将为员工提供支持,并有助于满足该实践领域的精神需求。
无论婴儿、家庭还是团队本身,都应在新生儿护理中承认精神需求。
管理者有责任确保为婴儿及其家庭提供精神关怀,并作为精神领袖关心团队。