A qualitative hermeneutical understanding of spiritual care in old age when living in a nursing home: The residents' voices.

Aim: To explore and gain a broader understanding of residents' viewpoints and experiences of spiritual care when living in a nursing home.

Design: A qualitative hermeneutical interview study inspired by Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics.

Methods: Thirty-eight individual interviews of 14 male and 24 female residents; of these, 24 had a dementia diagnosis.

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.

Quality of life and nurse-patient interaction among NH residents: Loneliness is detrimental, while nurse-patient interaction is fundamental.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the association between perceived nurse-patient interaction and quality-of-life among nursing home residents, adjusted for loneliness, anxiety and depression.

Background: Symptoms of anxiety and depression are known to residents of nursing homes along with cognitive impairment, physical inactivity and low quality-of-life. Anxiety, depression and loneliness are found detrimental to NH residents' quality-of-life.

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.

Hope that provides strength in illness-patients' perspectives: Nursing students' narratives after conversation with patients.

Background: The aim of this article is to explore sources of hope for patients by using patients' narratives and perspectives on how they find hope when facing illness. Hope enables people to endure suffering and can be critical to how people cope with illness. Hope is not a singular phenomenon, so nurses need to understand how to support the patients' sources of hope.

Consequences of the Covid-19 virus on individuals receiving homecare services in Norway. A qualitative study of nursing students' reflective notes.

Background: Reflective notes in nursing education can facilitate students' understanding of how individuals in need of home healthcare services experience unfamiliar situations, such as a pandemic. The aim of this study is to describe the consequences of the COVID-19 virus for individuals receiving homecare services through the eyes of nursing students.

Methods: This is a qualitative descriptive study using content analysis to examine reflection notes from 17 nursing students in their last year of academic studies while undertaking home healthcare service training.

Associations Between Nurse-Patient Interaction and Sense of Coherence Among Cognitively Intact Nursing Home Residents.

To investigate the association between nurse-patient interaction and sense of coherence among cognitively intact nursing home residents. In a cross-sectional design, data were collected in 2017 and 2018 using the Nurse-Patient Interaction Scale (NPIS) and the 13-item Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-13). Of the 204 cognitively intact nursing home residents who met the inclusion criteria, 188 (92%) participated, representing 27 nursing homes.

Nurse-patient interaction and self-transcendence: assets for a meaningful life in nursing home residents?

Background: Due to the shift to an older population worldwide and an increased need for 24-h care, finding new and alternative approaches to increase wellbeing among nursing home (NH) residents is highly warranted. To guide clinical practice in boosting wellbeing among NH residents, knowledge about nurse-patient interaction (NPI), inter- (ST1) and intra-personal (ST2) self-transcendence and meaning-in-life (PIL) seems vital. This study tests six hypotheses of the relationships between NPI, ST1, ST2 and PIL among cognitively intact NH residents.

Joy-of-life in cognitively intact nursing home residents: the impact of the nurse-patient interaction.

Background: The nursing-home population is at a high risk of declined well-being and quality of life. Finding approaches to increase well-being among older adults in nursing-homes is highly warranted. Responding to this need, the approach framed 'Joy-of-Life-Nursing-Homes' (JoLNH) was developed in Norway.

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

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. Few studies have reported students' perspectives on how they acquire skills and knowledge in spiritual care.

Moments of joy and delight: the meaning of traditional food in dementia care.

Aims And Objectives: To learn about the meaning of traditional food to institutionalised patients with dementia.

Background: Traditional food strengthens the feelings of belonging, identity and heritage, which help persons with dementia to hold on to and reinforce their cultural identity and quality of life. Taste is more cultural than physiological.