Skills needed in palliative nursing care through a spiritual perspective in low and lower middle-income countries
Hinttala, Eeva (2019)
Hinttala, Eeva
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019121727142
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019121727142
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Palliative nursing requires skills are important because there are potential implications for health practice on the global level. Palliative nursing care can be developed and spread around the world. The findings gained from exploring palliative nursing care skills and the spiritual perspective can contribute to all who are involved such as the nurse’s professional development and patients. This study will provide greater understanding of important per-spectives in palliative nursing care which contribute to high quality patient care out-comes. These will give support to the nurses in their future development of holistic palliative nurs-ing care. With focus on the spiritual perspective in low- and lower middle-income countries, this scoping review aims to review existing literature regarding skills nurses need in pallia-tive nursing. The concepts that will be used and defined are nursing, palliative care, spiritu-ality and religion. In addition, the major religions of the world will be explained, and these include Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism. Information and scientific articles are read and analyzed. A search was conducted on studies between 2014-2019 in the following databases: CINAHL full text, Academic Search Premier and PubMed. A man-ual search of books and printed articles was also performed. The studies which described palliative nursing care skills though a spiritual perspective were considered. The type of analysis used was an inductive content analysis to summarize and spread what is known about the topic. Three major themes emerged, and these are communication, compassion and giving hope. Some research has been written, however there could still be potential in the future for more research on palliative nursing care.