A Study to Correlate Quality of Work Life with Spiritual Intelligence among Nurses Caring for Oncology patients in A selected hospital, Bangalore with a view to develop Sensitization Programme

Material and Methods: A Descriptive co-relational design was adopted and 100 nurses working in oncology wards, common wards and private wards of St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore were selected by purposive sampling method. Two standardized tools. Quality of Work Life Evaluation Scale and Spiritual Intelligence Self – Report Inventory were used to access the quality of work life with spiritual intelligence among nurses caring for oncology patients respectively. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Showed that the mean quality of work life scores of nurses caring for oncology patients was 126.16 and mean spiritual intelligence scores was 63.64. The results also revealed that there was a weak positive correlation between Quality of Work Life and Spiritual Intelligence (r=0.12) which was significant at p<0.05. This shows that as spiritual intelligence increases quality of work life increases. There was no significant association between QOWL and SI with baseline variables. Conclusion: The study showed that there is a significant correlation between Quality of Work Life and Spiritual Intelligence among nurses caring for oncology patients. Therefore, it is important to increase the spiritual intelligence of oncology nurses through a sensitization awareness programme and hence create a work environment where nurses can understand its importance and this will help to achieve a higher quality of work life.