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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl) J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168 Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32nd EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
Determination of spiritual care-related opinions of nurses who provide care for cancer patients
Elanur Yılmaz Karabulutlu, Seda Karaman, Gülden Atan and Süheyla Yaralı
Ataturk University, Turkey
Objective: This study was conducted to determine the spiritual care-related opinions of nurses who provide care for patients
with cancer.
Material and Method: The present study is a descriptive type research. The study data were collected in May 2016 from four
hospitals in Turkey. The study population consisted of the nurses who provide care for the patients with cancer at the hospitals
specified and the study was conducted with 76 nurses, who agreed to participate in the research, without any sample selection.
The research data were collected using "Personal Information Form" that surveys the knowledge and education of nurses about
spirituality as well as their personal characteristics, and the "Spirituality and Spiritual Care Scale (SSCS)".
Results: Among the nurses, 59.2% was in the 19-28 age group, 86.8% was male, 56.6% was married, 50.0% had balanced
income, 56.6% was college graduate, 76.3% was working for 1-9 years, 55.3% was working for 40 hours a week, and 60.5% was
working at night shift. Among them 65.8% stated that there was no spirituality-oriented practice in their clinics, and it was
determined that 51.3% was knowledgeable about spiritual care, 69.7% hadn't received any training about spiritual care, and
65.2% of the nurses who had received a spiritual care training was found to be trained in their college. 60.5% could meet the
spiritual needs of patients, 64.5% was listening to the patients to meet their spiritual care needs, and 35.5% stated that lack of
staff is the reason behind the inability to meet spiritual care needs of the patients. The mean total score in SSCS taken by the
nurses was 51.66±6.56 and the mean score in the spirituality and spiritual care sub-scale was 23.17±4.73, the mean score in
the religiosity sub-scale was 10.26±2.20, and the mean score in the individual care sub-scale was found to be 12.96±2.18. The
difference between mean SSCS scores of the nurses was found to be statistically significant in terms age, education status and
ability to meet spiritual needs of the patients (p>0.05).
Conclusion: The levels of perception of nurses about spirituality and spiritual care were determined to be high. It was found
that nurses' age, education level, and their ability to meet the spiritual needs of patients affects their levels of perception about
spirituality and spiritual care.
Biography
Seda Karaman is working in Internal Medicine Nursing field. She is interested in Oncology, Alternative and Complementary Medicine and History of Nursing topics.
She is currently working on Doctoral Thesis in Public Health Nursing from Ataturk University in Turkey.
Elanur Yılmaz Karabulutlu et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061