Strengths and challenges with spiritual care: Student feedback from the EPICC Spiritual Care Self-Assessment Tool.

Aim: To explore qualitative data from students' self-reported competencies in spiritual care gathered during testing of a student self-assessment tool based on the EPICC Spiritual Care Education Standard.

Design: Reflexive thematic analysis of qualitative data from a multinational study on validating a new self-assessment tool.

Methods: The EPICC Spiritual Care Education Standard for competency in spiritual care was developed to enhance nurses' and midwives' ability to provide spiritual care by creating a baccalaureate education standard for spiritual care competencies.

Developing and testing the EPICC Spiritual Care Competency Self-Assessment Tool for student nurses and midwives.

Aims And Objectives: To develop and psychometrically test a self-assessment tool that measures undergraduate nursing and midwifery students' perceptions of spiritual care competence in health care practice.

Background: Spiritual care is part of nurses/midwives' responsibility. There is a need to better benchmark students' competency development in spiritual care through their education.

Nursing and midwifery students' perceptions of spirituality, spiritual care, and spiritual care competency: A prospective, longitudinal, correlational European study.

Background: Nurses and midwives care for people at some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives, so it is essential that they have the skills to give care which is compassionate, dignified, holistic and person-centred. Holistic care includes spiritual care which is concerned with helping people whose beliefs, values and sense of meaning, purpose and connection is challenged by birth, illness or death. Spiritual care is expected of nurses/midwives but they feel least prepared for this part of their role.

Competence and frequency of provision of spiritual care by nurses in the Netherlands.

Background: Spiritual care to patients is important for their well-being, and nurses do have a crucial role in it. Previous research focused on self-assessed competence in providing spiritual care, but little is known about the actual provision. The aims of this study were as follows: (i) to evaluate how often nurses provide spiritual care, (ii) if or which association there is between self-assessed competency and provision of spiritual care, and (iii) to study which factors do have influence on delivering spiritual care.

Factors contributing to student nurses'/midwives' perceived competency in spiritual care.

Background: The spiritual part of life is important to health, well-being and quality of life. Spiritual care is expected of nurses/midwives, but it is not clear how students can achieve competency in spiritual care at point of registration as required by regulatory bodies.

Aim: To explore factors contributing to undergraduate nurses'/midwives' perceived competency in giving spiritual care.

Towards a competency assessment tool for nurses in ethics meetings.

Background: Nurses require specific knowledge, skills and attitudes to participate competently in various forms of ethics meetings. The literature does not state the contents of the knowledge, skills and attitudes nurses need for ethics meetings. Without such a competency profile, it cannot be assessed in how far nurses actually possess these qualities for ethics meetings.

Being the minority: Christian healthcare professionals in The Netherlands.

In many societies, spirituality is no longer specifically religious or affiliated in a traditional sense. This is especially true in The Netherlands. This study examined the qualities of Dutch Christian healthcare professionals, opportunities and threats to being Christian, and their perceived need for support to be Christian.

Student nurses perceptions of spirituality and competence in delivering spiritual care: a European pilot study.

Background: Spiritual care is expected of nurses, but it is not clear how undergraduates can achieve competency in spiritual care at point of registration as required by nursing/midwifery regulatory bodies.

Aims: To describe undergraduate nurses'/midwives' perceptions of spirituality/spiritual care, their perceived competence in delivering spiritual care, and to test out the proposed method and suitability of measures for a larger multinational follow-on study.

Design: Cross-sectional, multinational, descriptive survey design.

Screening patient spirituality and spiritual needs in oncology nursing.

Aim: To select 2 appropriate spiritual assessment tools and evaluate these by involving oncology nurses.

Background: Spirituality is recognized as an important domain of cancer care. At admission, integration of spiritual assessment seems necessary.