Views Related to Spiritual Care and Spirituality of Nurses

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Aim: This study was performed to investigatenurses’ opinions about spirituality and spiritualcare. Methods: This study was performed of a province Central Anatolia region in three hospitalsbetween March-July 2007. The study descriptivetype planned that data, created by researcherswith “Personal Information Form” were collected by questionnaire and “Spirituality and Spiritual Care Grading Scale.” The population of thisstudy included did 621 nurses. Sample selectionwas not made. The study was who agreed to participate in the study 333 nurse attended. Obtaineddata were analyzed with Student t test, MannWhitney U test, Kruskal Wallis Variance Analysisand One -Way of Variance Analysis. Results: Out of 333 nurses, 96.4% were female, 54.7% were aged less than 30 years, 45.3% hada bachelor degree in nursing and 59.5% were married. Thirty-one point eight percent of the nurseswere working in surgical wards, 40.5% had a workexperience of 5 years or less. In the study 65.2% ofnurses noted that they did not receive informationabout spirituality and 50% of the nurses who had

Keywords

• Spirituality,spiritual care,nursing

Hemşirelerin Maneviyat ve Manevi Bakıma İlişkin Görüşleri

Abstract

Amaç: Bu araştırma, hemşirelerin maneviyat ve manevi bakımailişkin görüşlerinin belirlenmesi amacı ile yapıldı. Yöntem: Bu çalışma İç Anadolu Bölgesi’ndeki bir ilin üç hastanesinde Mart-Temmuz 2007 tarihleri arasında yapıldı. Tanımlayıcı tipteplanlanan araştırmada, veriler araştırmacılar tarafından hazırlanan“Kişisel Bilgi Formu” ve “Maneviyat ve Manevi Bakım DerecelemeÖlçeği” ile toplandı. Araştırmanın evrenini söz konusu hastanelerdeçalışan toplam 621 hemşire oluşturdu. Örneklem seçimine gidilmedi.Araştırmaya çalışmaya katılmayı kabul eden 333 hemşire katıldı. Elde edilen veriler İki Ortalama Arasındaki Farkın Önemlilik Testi,Mann-whitney U, Kruskal Wallis ve Tek Yönlü Varyans Analizi kullanılarak hesaplandı. Bulgular: Çalışmaya katılan hemşirelerin %96.4’ü kadın,%54.7’si 30 yaş altında, %45.3’ü lisans mezunu olup, %59.5’i evlidir.Hemşirelerin %31.8’i cerrahi kliniklerinde çalışmakta olup%40.5’inin çalışma süresi 5 yıl ve daha azdır. Çalışmada hemşirelerin %65.2’sinin maneviyat ile ilişkili bilgi almadığı, bilgi alanların%50’sinin aldığı bilgiyi yetersiz bulduğu belirlendi. Çalışma kapsamında yer alan hemşirelerin %73’ü maneviyatı, %93.4’ü manevi bakımı tanımlayamadı. Hemşirelerin Maneviyat ve Manevi Bakım Dereceleme Ölçeği puan ortalamasının 54.57±5.09 olduğu, hemşirelerineğitim düzeyi arttıkça maneviyat puan ortalamasının yükseldiği vemaneviyat ile ilgili bilgi alan hemşireler 55.64±4.23 ile bilgi almayanların 54.00±5.41 ölçek puan ortalaması arasında çok düşük birfark olmakla birlikte puan ortalamaları arasında istatistiksel olarakanlamlı ilişki bulunduğu t=2.834, p

Keywords

• Maneviyat,manevi bakım,hemşirelik

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