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Nurses' Spiritual Care Practices: Assessment, Type, Frequency, And Correlates, Iris Mamier
Nurses' Spiritual Care Practices: Assessment, Type, Frequency, And Correlates, Iris Mamier
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
This descriptive, correlational study described the type, frequency, and correlates of nurses' spiritual care practices (quantitative) and their experiences with the sacred at work (qualitative). A convenience sample of 554 (24%) of the Registered Nurses employed at a western United States faith-based tertiary care health system participated in this online survey. Nurses' spiritual care practices were assessed using the 17-item Nurses' Spiritual Care Practice Questionnaire (NSCQ). Factorial validity and reliability of the pilot NSCQ were established. Spiritual care practices most frequently endorsed were assessing patients' spiritual beliefs pertaining to health and listening to patients' stories of illness and their spiritual …
An Evaluation Of Interventions Designed To Impact Nurses : A Pilot Project, Pamela G. Bing Perry
An Evaluation Of Interventions Designed To Impact Nurses : A Pilot Project, Pamela G. Bing Perry
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
This pilot project was designed from a systems approach as defined within the field of marriage and family (MFT). Systems theory has been used successfully in examining and working with organizational relationships as exemplified in the work of Edwin H. Friedman. His contribution includes several books specifically developed for use in organizations; one that was tailored for religious groups; and another for managers (Friedman, 2007). While other MFT modalities have also been used effectively with organizations, the complexity of the influences operating within an organization most closely matches the systems approach. For this reason, this is the conceptual framework applied …