spiritual care

Nursing student Andrew Poole sits at a table in a community hall talking to a parish nursing client while on clinical placement

Community placement: what does working with parish nurses involve?

Parish nursing teams can offer scope to develop communication and health promotion skills

Spiritual care: what you need to know, whatever your practice setting

Understanding and addressing patients’ spiritual needs is essential to person-centred care

What does a parish nurse do?

Paid and voluntary posts with local churches, providing holistic healthcare in the community

Spiritual care and COVID-19: give patients access to loved ones and chaplains – report

Dying patients deserve the solace of family and religious rites at the bedside, says study

Parish Nursing: where spiritual care and community collide

A nurse network providing holistic care to vulnerable and isolated people amid the pandemic

Understanding the role of spirituality in providing person-centred care

Learn what nurses require to achieve spiritually competent practice

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Nurses offer spiritual care as part of their everyday practice, for example, by holding a patient's hand or asking what matters to them

Why spiritual care is not as abstract as you may think

It’s already part of your everyday nursing practice – whether you are aware of it or not

Spirituality care: assessing the spiritual needs of people with cancer

Spirituality care: assessing the spiritual needs of people with cancer

Unmet spiritual needs can lead to distress and further aggravate a diagnosis of cancer

Patients’ spiritual needs: the conversations that can help

This vital, but often daunting, area of care starts with talking about what matters to people

Sara Lister

Spiritual and psychological support: the nurse-led team helping people cope with cancer

Nurse counsellors lead the pastoral care services at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital

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Spiritual care is not as complex as we may think

The skills that draw us to the profession are a good foundation, says Macmillan’s Barry Quinn

A nurse adjusting a patient's pillow in a hospital bed

Two questions that ensure person-centred spiritual care

How a new tool can help nurses address spiritual needs, even in a stretched health service

Book review: Spirituality in Hospice Care

Drawing on research and philosophical literature, this book explores spirituality in...

Implementing spiritual care interventions

This article, the third and final in a series of three, discusses the implementation of...

Assessing the spiritual needs of patients

Assessing spirituality and the spiritual needs of patients is fundamental to providing...

Nurses urged to address dying patients' spiritual needs...

Nurses and other health professionals caring for dying people should do more to ask about...

Understanding spirituality and spiritual care in nursing

Spirituality is a complex concept that has different meanings for different people....

Parish nursing: an innovative community nursing service

This article explains the concept of parish nursing and provides a historical perspective of...

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