Spiritual Care Experiences of Nurses Working in Gynecology Clinic: A Qualitative Research

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI:10.1111/jep.70030

Fatma Başaran, Merve Şahin, Hava Salık

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Abstract

Rationale

Pregnancy and childbirth are among the most important events in a woman's reproductive life. In this process with full of uncertainties, nurses who provide primary care to women play a key role. Spiritual care is an important part of holistic care and an indicator of quality of care.

Aim

This research aims to thoroughly examine and describe the spiritual care experiences of nurses working in obstetrics and gynecology clinics specific to their clinics.

Methods

The study was carried out based on the descriptive phenomenology type of phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research methods. The study group included nurses in gynecology clinics in different provinces and hospitals in Turkey. The criterion sampling method, one of the purposive sampling methods, was used, and 12 nurses comprised the sample size. A semi-structured interview form was used to collect the data. In evaluating the obtained data, thematic content analysis and MAXQDA 22 software were used. The study was written based on the COREQ checklist.

Results

The data obtained from the interviews were analyzed under six themes: the concept of spiritual care, spiritual care practices, factors complicating spiritual care, factors facilitating spiritual care, emotional effects of spiritual care, and recommendations on the best way to provide spiritual care.

Conclusions

It is vital to train gynecology nurses in spiritual care, reduce their workload, and develop clinical practice guidelines. Increasing the awareness of obstetric nurses about the factors affecting their spiritual care experiences while caring for individuals in clinical practices will contribute to increasing the quality of nursing care.

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

4.20%

发文量

143

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.