Nursing Students' Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual Care.

Objectives: This study has been performed as definitive in order to investigate the nursing students’ perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care. Methods: This study has been carried out at Atatürk University Faculty of Health Sciences between August 2015 and September 2015. Population of this study has been constituted by the Ataturk University Faculty of Health Sciences nursing first, second, third and fourth class students completely. (n=780). Study has been completed without choosing a sample group with the participation of 305 students who accepted to attend the investigation. Introductory information forms and Spiritual Care-Giving Scale have been used during the data collection. Percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation, analysis of variance, Kruskal Wallis, Mann Whitney U, And T test has been used while evaluating the data. Results: In this study, following results has been founded: Average of nursing students is 21.02±175, 62 % of them are female, perceiving of their spirituality and spiritual caring is good level (X±SS =143.60 ±16.10). It has been determined that perceiving of nursing students’ spirituality and spiritual caring has been affected from lessons about the spiritual caring, finding the spiritual care involved with nursing care, choosing the nursing job by willingly and perceiving the students’ their own spiritual conditions (p<0.05). But It has been also determined, students’ spirituality and spiritual caring perceive is not affected of sexuality, marital status, economical condition and settlement. (p>0.05). Conclusion: It has been determined with this study that; there is a close relation between acknowledge level of students about spiritual care and students’ perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care. Accordingly integration spirituality and spiritual subject to the nursing lessons of students could be advised in order to increase their awareness for spirituality and spiritual caring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]