Simply by showing kindness and listening, nurses satisfy patients' needs for spiritual care, according to research recently conducted by E.J. Taylor of the Loma Linda University School of Nursing.
In this study, published in Oncology Nursing Forum, patients were interviewed about their needs for spiritual care and their percetion of nurses' behavior and attitudes that matched those needs. The results indicated that very simple things qualified as meeting spiritual needs. After kindness and listening, the most frequently mentioned were authenticity, personal connection, physical connection, and physical presence. The only items mentioned that resembled caregiving behaviours traditionally thought of as spiritual was having nurses pray and mobilizing religious or spiritual resources. The results suggested there is indeed a need for spiritual care, but it can come in ways that do not touch upon traditional religious concerns.
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