Abstract
Abstract
Background
The palliative care period not only affects patients but also family caregivers in many ways. Palliative care units are places where the spiritual needs of family caregivers become important. According to a holistic care approach, palliative care nurses should determine the spiritual needs of family caregivers and help meet these needs.
Objective
This study aims at exploring nurses’ and family caregivers’ experiences of spiritual care.
Methods
A phenomenological study was designed in this qualitative research. A total of 10 nurses working in palliative care and 11 family caregivers participated in the study. Nurses’ experiences of delivering spiritual care and family caregivers’ experiences of receiving spiritual care were examined through the in-depth interviewing method on a one-to‐one basis. The data were examined using thematic analysis.
Results
Four main themes were obtained by the data analysis: (I) Impacts of being in a palliative care unit; (II) Coping methods; (III) Importance of spirituality and spiritual care; (IV) Spiritual care. The results were presented according to the COREQ criteria.
Conclusion
Although spiritual care is very necessary for family caregivers, it is not offered sufficiently due to nurse-and institution-related reasons. Palliative care nurses should determine the spiritual needs of family caregivers in line with the holistic care approach. Nurse managers should determine factors preventing nurses from offering spiritual care and create solutions for these factors. The lack of nurses’ knowledge about spiritual care should be resolved by providing continuous training and therefore, nurses’ competencies in spiritual care should be improved.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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