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.

Living With Cardiovascular Disease: Existential Meaning of Lifestyle Change.

This study aims at exploring the perspectives of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) on the existential meaning of lifestyle change as an evidence base for spiritual care by nurses and other health professionals. This study has been carried out within the paradigm of phenomenological caring sciences. The sample of 18 participants was purposively selected.

Development of a spiritual care education matrix: Factors facilitating/hindering improvement of spiritual care competency in student nurses and midwives.

Spiritual care is a fundamental aspect of caring and compassionate nursing/midwifery practice. However, nurses/midwives consistently report feeling unprepared to provide spiritual care for various reasons. A key reason appears to be the lack of structured spiritual care education in undergraduate nursing/midwifery curricula.

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.

An Online Competency-Based Spiritual Care Education Tool for Oncology Nurses.

Objective: The importance of spiritual care for the nursing profession has been long established. In many health care settings, including oncology, patients facing illness, suffering, and imminent death can struggle with existential questions of purpose and meaning-making. Recent research provided a competency-based educational framework to prepare nurses and nursing students to address these spiritual needs.

The development of a consensus-based spiritual care education standard for undergraduate nursing and midwifery students: An educational mixed methods study.

Aims: The aim of this study was to develop a consensus-based Spiritual Care Education Standard for undergraduate N/M students to use in undergraduate programmes.

Design: Mixed methods were used consisting of qualitative and quantitative methods based on the principles of Delphi research.

Methods: The sample consisted of a total of 58 (N = 58) participants from 21 European countries.

Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the spiritual care competency scale in nursing practice: a methodological study.

Objectives: To determine the validity and reliability of the Spiritual Care Competency Scale (SCCS) among nurses in China.

Design: Methodological research.

Methods: After the SCCS was translated into Chinese, the validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the SCCS (C-SCCS) were evaluated using a convenience sample of 800 nurses recruited from different healthcare centres.