Publications by authors named "Jane Bacon Pfeiffer"
Aims: To describe how the religiosity of Christian nurses motivates their practice and manifests during patient care, especially spiritual care.
Background: Nurses around the world are often religious. This religiosity inherently affects nursing practice.
Aims And Objectives: To describe the experience of conversing with clients to provide spiritual care from the perspective of Christian nurses identified as exemplary spiritual caregivers. More specifically, findings presented here describe the goals and strategies of these nurses when conversing with patients about spirituality.
Background: Although verbal communication is pivotal to most spiritual care interventions recognised in the nursing literature, there is scant empirical evidence to inform such spiritual care.
Aim: This paper reports the development of a substantive theory to explain the process parish nurses use to provide spiritual care to parishioners in Christian churches in a context where patients and nurses share a common set of values.
Background: Despite a surge of interest in spirituality and spiritual care in nursing, consensus is lacking on how care should be conceptualized and provided.
Method: Grounded theory method was used to explore and describe the processes 10 American parish nurses experienced and used as they gave spiritual care.