Spirituality is a universal human phenomenon, yet confusion and incomprehension of the
concept is ever-present. The purpose of this study was to explore how research on the …

Aims. The paper gives an overview of nursing research papers published on spiritual care
between 1983 and October 2005. It also provides pointers for the future direction of research …

Written by two leading authors in the field, Social Work and Spirituality provides a critical
engagement with the concept of spirituality and a much needed framework for the …

Purpose This review aims to systematically evaluate the effects of Paro on older adults and
provide a stronger basis for the rational application of Paro in aged care facilities. Methods …

Seven major constructs—belonging, meaning, hope, the sacred, morality, beauty, and
acceptance of dying—were revealed in an analysis of the literature pertaining to patient …

The purpose of this descriptive, cross-sectional, qualitative study was to describe the
spiritual needs experienced in living with cancer from the perspective of patients with cancer …

Dilemmas of spiritual assessment: considerations for nursing practice Background. Interest
in the spiritual dimension of nursing has resulted in a proliferation of published research …

Purpose: This article reviews the literature on" The Experience of Dying" and presents data
from a larger, ongoing study of an ethnography of dying in nursing homes. The purpose of …

While the research on spiritual needs of patients with chronic and life‐threatening diseases
increases, there is limited knowledge about psychosocial and spiritual needs of elderly …

The idea of spirituality has been going through something of a revolution in the late twentieth
and early twenty-first centuries. It has begun to break loose from the meaning structures that …