Mental Health Nurses' Spiritual Perspectives
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Holistic Nursing
- Vol. 14 (2), 85-97
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089801019601400202
Abstract
Spiritual care has reemerged as a critical concern in nursing care. It is assumed that to provide spiritual care, nurses have a personal spiritual perspective. This study investigates the spiritual perspectives of a convenience sample of 50 mental health nurses employed in a public facility. The nurses' spiritual perspectives were measured using Reed's (1986a) Spiritual Perspective Scale (SPS). Due to the homogeneous nature of the sample and a clustering of SPS scores, the Wilcoxin Signed-Ranks Test was used to evaluate the data. Although no variables were identified as significant contributors to an individual nurse's spiritual perspective, an overall high SPS was found among the mental health nurses surveyed. The mental health nurses' SPS score mean (5.334, SD = .56) was notably higher than found in previous studies using the SPS (Reed, 1986a, 1991).Keywords
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