Zambezi Mercy, Emmamally Waheedha, Mooi Nomaxabiso
School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa.
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha 5099, South Africa.
Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Mar 22;10(4):595. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10040595.
Spiritual care is a part of the holistic care that enables family members in intensive care units to find meaning in their life events and simultaneously bolsters their resilience and coping tools.
To determine family members' preferences of spiritual care practices that they require from nurses working in intensive care units.
A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in the intensive care units of a private hospital in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Data, using the Nurse Spiritual Therapeutic Scale, were collected from a purposive sample of family members ( = 47). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
The mean overall Nurse Spiritual Therapeutic Scale was 58.4 (20-80). The most preferred and least preferred spiritual care practices by family members were "to be helped to have quiet time and space", ( = 3.32, SD = 0.59) and "to arrange for a chaplain to visit them" ( = 2.70, SD= 0.91), respectively.
The mean overall NSTS score indicated that there was a strong preference among family members for nurses to provide them with spiritual care in the intensive care units. However, due to the diversity of family members' preferences it remains important that family members guide intensive care nurses in their spiritual care.
精神关怀是整体护理的一部分,能使重症监护病房的家庭成员从其生活事件中找到意义,同时增强他们的恢复力和应对方法。
确定家庭成员对重症监护病房护士提供的精神关怀措施的偏好。
在夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省一家私立医院的重症监护病房进行了一项定量、描述性横断面研究。使用护士精神治疗量表,从有目的抽取的47名家庭成员样本中收集数据。采用描述性统计方法分析数据。
护士精神治疗量表的总体平均分为58.4(范围20 - 80)。家庭成员最喜欢和最不喜欢的精神关怀措施分别是“帮助获得安静的时间和空间”(均值 = 3.32,标准差 = 0.59)和“安排牧师探访他们”(均值 = 2.70,标准差 = 0.91)。
护士精神治疗量表的总体平均分表明,家庭成员强烈希望护士在重症监护病房为他们提供精神关怀。然而,由于家庭成员偏好的多样性,家庭成员在精神关怀方面指导重症监护病房护士仍然很重要。