Table 1 Structure of nursing spiritual care module (NSCM)
From: The impact of a nursing spiritual care module on nursing competence: an experimental design
No. | Session | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
1. | Introduction to spiritual care | • To define the concepts of spirituality and spiritual care. • To understand the Nurses’ Role in Spiritual Care • To appreciate the importance of spiritual care for patients. • To discuss nurses’ relationship and attitude towards patients. • To improve and increase spiritual self-awareness. |
2. | Assessing the spiritual needs of patients | • To identify the concept of spiritual health, need and distress. • To describe the purpose of conducting a spiritual assessment. • To understand how patients can express his/her spiritual need • To describe how to assess patients’ spiritual need. • To discuss what is the essential skills the nurses should have, to identify the patient’s spiritual care needs. |
3. | Spiritual care intervention | • To describe the categories of spiritual care intervention • To understand how to provide spiritual care. • To discuss the importance of therapeutic communication with patients. • To explain the importance of documentation on patients’ spiritual needs. • To explaining how and when nurses can referral the patients to the specialists. |