Yilmaz Meryem, Gurler Hesna
Cumhuriyet University, Turkey
Cumhuriyet University, Turkey.
Nurs Ethics. 2014 Dec;21(8):929-45. doi: 10.1177/0969733014521096. Epub 2014 Mar 18.
Attention to patients' spirituality, as a moral obligation of care, is now widely accepted in nursing practice. However, until recently, many nursing programs have paid little attention to spirituality.
The objective of this study was to identify the impact of two different curricula, used to teach undergraduate nursing students, on increasing nursing student awareness of spirituality in the care of patients.
A quasi-experimental post-intervention two-group design was conducted in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 academic years.
The study included a total of 130 volunteer senior-year students. The students were assigned as "the intervention group/integrated system" that were informed about spirituality or as "the control group/traditional system" that received no information on spirituality. Data were collected via a personal information form and the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale was used to assess responses. The study was conducted at the Department of Nursing of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Cumhuriyet University, in Central Anatolia/Turkey.
Permission to conduct the study at the nursing school was obtained from the schools' management teams. The rights of the participants were protected in this study by obtaining informed consent.
The results revealed that the intervention group had a higher mean score on the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale than did the control group. The students in the intervention group defined the terms of spirituality and spiritual care more accurately than did the control group students.
Nurses are professionally and ethically responsible for providing spiritual care. Nurses' competence in meeting the spiritual needs of their patients should be improved by undergraduate education on spiritual care. Nursing scholars reported a significant difference in the knowledge and attitudes toward spirituality of nursing students as a result of the integration of spirituality into the undergraduate nursing curriculum.
Spirituality should be more widely included in nursing education.
关注患者的精神需求，作为护理工作的一项道德义务，如今在护理实践中已被广泛认可。然而，直到最近，许多护理课程对精神需求的关注仍很少。
本研究的目的是确定用于教授本科护理专业学生的两种不同课程，对提高护理专业学生在患者护理中对精神需求的认知的影响。
在2009 - 2010学年和2010 - 2011学年进行了一项干预后准实验两组设计。
该研究共纳入130名自愿参与的大四学生。这些学生被分为“干预组/综合系统组”，他们了解了精神需求相关内容，或“对照组/传统系统组”，该组未获得任何关于精神需求的信息。通过个人信息表收集数据，并使用《精神需求与精神护理评定量表》来评估反馈。该研究在土耳其中部安纳托利亚地区居米什尔大学健康科学学院护理系进行。
已从学校管理团队获得在护理学院进行该研究的许可。在本研究中，通过获取知情同意书保护了参与者的权利。
结果显示，干预组在《精神需求与精神护理评定量表》上的平均得分高于对照组。干预组的学生比对照组的学生更准确地界定了精神需求和精神护理的概念。
护士在提供精神护理方面负有专业和道德责任。本科阶段的精神护理教育应提高护士满足患者精神需求的能力。护理学者报告称，由于将精神需求纳入本科护理课程，护理专业学生在精神需求方面的知识和态度存在显著差异。
精神需求应更广泛地纳入护理教育。
