Spiritual Needs and Life Satisfaction of Lithuanian Palliative Care Patients.

Life satisfaction remains a value-based orientation and an important positive dimension of human well-being. Little is known about the relationship of this construct with palliative care patients' spiritual needs. This study assesses spiritual needs of palliative care patients and their association with life satisfaction.

Spiritual lives of children with cancer: A qualitative descriptive study in Lithuania.

Purpose: To explore the experience and perception of spiritual lives of children with cancer.

Design And Methods: A qualitative descriptive study included the collection of narratives on spiritual lives of children drawn from two university hospitals in Lithuania in the form of a semi-structured face-to-face interviews. Purposive sample of twenty-seven hospitalized children (5-12 y.

Spiritual Wellbeing of Cancer Patients: What Health-Related Factors Matter?

This study aimed to determine the predictors of spiritual wellbeing of non-terminal stage cancer patients hospitalized in oncology units in Lithuania. An exploratory cross-sectional study design was employed. During structured face-to-face interviews, 226 cancer patients hospitalized in oncology units responded about their spiritual wellbeing, perception of happiness, satisfaction with life, pain intensity, levels of education and physical functioning, and length of inpatient stay.

Perceptions of Clergy Regarding the Provision of Spiritual Care in Lithuanian Hospitals for Cancer Patients.

This paper presents an analysis of narratives drawn from research that examined the views of clergy in regard to the provision of spiritual care in Lithuanian hospitals. The purpose of this research was to examine the shared responsibilities between what nurses do in the provision of holistic care and that of the clergy who are employed to provide spiritual care. A thematic analysis was undertaken, guided by questions related to how spirituality was perceived by the clergy; how spiritual care was defined; clergy's perceptions to nurses' provision of spiritual care, and whether there was a delineation between these two roles.

Preparing for the transition from clinical practice to academia.

Although education is an essential component of good nursing practice, clinical practice proficiency does not equate to competence in academia. Expert clinicians are not automatically expert educators. However, more and more academic institutions are relying on full-time clinicians to assume academic teaching positions.

General and professional values of student nurses and nurse educators.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore and compare the self-reported general and professional values in undergraduate student nurses and nurse educators in Lithuania.

Background: Contemporary nursing requires strong moral motivation and clear values as nurses confront many ethical dilemas in their practice. Students acquire essential values of the nursing profession through the appropriate role modelling of their educators.

Spiritual care as perceived by Lithuanian student nurses and nurse educators: A national survey.

Background: Political restrictions during 50years of Soviet occupation discouraged expressions of spirituality among Lithuanians.

The Aim: The aim of this paper is to describe Lithuanian nursing educators' and students' perception of spiritual care in a post-Soviet context.

Design And Settings: This cross-sectional study was carried out among student nurses and nursing educators at three universities and six colleges in Lithuania.

Evaluating international clinical education encounters in Lithuania.

Background: Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, nurses from various countries have organized clinical education sessions in Lithuania to share expertise. Evaluation of these sessions has not been completed or disseminated. This study provides an evaluation of international continuing nursing education sessions in Lithuania.