Creating a Safe Space for Nursing Students' Spiritual Reflection.

Crista L Briggs, Grace Lartey, Susan Eagle
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Abstract

In an effort to improve students' comfort level and confidence with spiritual care, nursing faculty initiated a classroom activity to encourage students to think about and reflect upon 10 questions. Students responded by answering whether they had ever thought about the question being asked, then writing a short narrative response. Topics included issues about life, death, afterlife, spiritual well-being, truth, and God. Although 88.8% of participants (n = 107) considered themselves to be religious or spiritual, results revealed many had never thought about the questions being asked. Based on these findings, nurse educators should consider including a similar classroom reflection exercise to better prepare students for providing spiritual care prior to beginning clinical rotations.

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MeSH Term

Faculty, Nursing
Humans
Narration
Spirituality
Students, Nursing
Writing

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