EXPLORING SPIRITUALITY AND ATITUDES TOWARDS SPIRITUAL CARE AMONG NURSES

CILJ: Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je ustanoviti poimanje i odnos prema duhovnoj skrbi u postupku provođenja zdravstvene njege u medicinskih sestara zaposlene u Kliničkom bolničkom centru Split. METODE: Mjerni instrument koji se koristio je validirani upitnik Ljestvica za procjenjivanje duhovnosti i duhovne skrbi (SSCRS) i Ljestvica snage vjere Santa Clara (SCSRF) kojeg je ispunilo 207 medicinskih sestara zaposlenih u KBC Splitu. U istraživanju je sudjelovalo 184 ispitanika ženskog spola i 15 ispitanika muškog spola. Podaci su obrađeni u računalnom programu IBM SPSS 24,0 programu za statističku obradu podataka. REZULTATI: Rezultati su pokazali kako medicinske sestre zaposlene u KBC Splitu ukazuju na to da je duhovna skrb bitna dimenzija zdravstvene njege, no kako nemaju dovoljno znanja za pružanje duhovne skrbi izrazili su veliki stupanj želje za educiranjem kako bi mogle prepoznati duhovne potrebe pacijenta i na taj način znale riješiti probleme vezane za duhovnost i duhovnu skrb. ZAKLJUČAK: Prema dobivenim rezultatima možemo zaključiti da je poimanje koncepta duhovnosti u medicinskih sestara u KBC Splitu još uvijek usko vezano za religiju, a njihove potrebe i želje da se educiraju za duhovnu skrb su visoke, što je ohrabrujući podatak za daljnja istraživanja. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to establish the understanding and attitude towards spiritual care in the process of performing health care in nurses who are employed in Split Clinical Hospital Center. METHODS: The instrument that was used was a validated questionnaire of the Spirituality and Spiritual care Rating Scale (SSCRS) and The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire (SCSRF), which was filled by 207 nurses working in KBC Split. The study included 184 female subjects and 15 male subjects. The data was processed in the IBM SPSS 24.0 program for statistical data processing. RESULTS: The results showed that nurses employed at KBC Split point out that spiritual care is an important dimension of health care, but still lacking sufficient knowledge for spiritual care and they have expressed a high degree of education and desire to recognize the spiritual needs of the patient and thus know to solve problems related to spirituality and spiritual care. CONCLUSION: Based on the results we can conclude that the concept of spirituality in healt care nurses at KBC Split are still relating spirituality to religion, and their needs and desires to be educated for spiritual care are high, which is encouraging data for further research.