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Talking about spiritual matters: First y...

Talking about spiritual matters: First year nursing students’ experiences of an assignment on spiritual conversations

Citation Kuven, B. M., & Giske, T. (2019).  Talking about spiritual matters: First year nursing students’ experiences of an assignment on spiritual conversations.  Nurse Education Today, 75.  doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2019.01.012 Abstract Background Spiritual care is part of holistic nursing.  However, nurses have reported that their education does not sufficiently prepare them for spiritual care in practice. […]

Education in the field of nursing spirit...

Education in the field of nursing spiritual care: The results of the international EPICC project

Sorry for the delay in posting this, but have not forgotten! On the 9th August 2018, our EPICC Participants from Poland, Dr. Beata Dobrowolska and Joanna Żołnierz, along with Alina Deluga, provided the project team with information of how they disseminated information on the EPICC project to their Association for Spiritual Care in Medicine (Faculty […]

The Spirituality of Children with Chroni...

The Spirituality of Children with Chronic Conditions: A Qualitative Meta-synthesis

Citation Damsma Bakker, A., van Leeuwen, R. R., & Roodbol, P. F. (2018).  The spirituality of children with chronic conditions: A qualitative meta-synthesis.  Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 43, e106-e113.  doi: 10.1016/j.pedn.2018.08.003 Free access to new article on spiritual needs of children with chronic condition for a limited time (until 11 January, 2019)! Specific categories of […]

New journal article about spiritual care...

New journal article about spiritual care competency

The main output of the EPICC project is to develop a Gold Standard Matrix for spiritual care education for pre-registration nurses and midwives.  It is important that this Matrix is evidence based.  This new journal article, based on a large international sample, provides new evidence on how students develop spiritual care competency and the factors […]