The Effect of the Degree of the Spiritual Nursing Care Performance on the Spiritual Nursing Care Ability of Nursing Students

Ko, Young Sook; Ha, Mi Ok

Abstract

BACKGROUND
This study was to survey the effect of the degree of spiritual nursing care performance on the spiritual nursing care ability of the nursing students
METHODS
The researcher sampled 130 nursing students for a questionnaire survey conducted from September 17 until September 27, 2018. The data of analysis used SPSS 23.0 program.
RESULTS
The spiritual nursing care ability was 4.4±0.8(total score 6) and the degree of spiritual nursing care performance was 2.9±1.8(total score 4). The spiritual nursing care ability differed significantly depending on religion(F=7.570, p < .001), the level of spiritual nursing knowledge(F=19.873, p < .001), education type(F=14.626, p < .001), necessity of hospice(t=2.280, p=.024). The degree of spiritual nursing care performance differed significantly depending on spiritual nursing education time(F=2.932, p=.036). The correlation of two variable was statistically significant difference(r=.206, p=.019). The influencing factors on the spiritual nursing care ability was religion, the level of spiritual nursing knowledge, education type, dying experience(R2=0.378, Adj R2=0.353), the degree of spiritual nursing care performance was spiritual nursing education time(R2=0.065, Adj R2=0.043).
CONCLUSION
These results show that nursing students are not able to perform spiritual nursing care properly to subjects who need spiritual nursing care. Therefore, it is necessary to develope programs to meet the spiritual nursing care needs of nursing students and to provide practical education in accordance with the program by cooperating with the nursing education staff, clergy and clinical nurse etc. And spiritual nursing care should be taught as a required subjects in the curriculum.