Association Among Workplace Spirituality, Spiritual Well-Being, and Spiritual Care in Practice With Multiple Mediators for Clinical Nurses

Background: Spiritual care helps individuals en- counter the transcendent meaning of their crises. How- ever, nurses report various barriers to providing spiri- tual care in clinical settings. To facilitate spiritual care among nurses, a more comprehensive understanding of this field is needed. This study was conducted to establish a path model for multiple factors predict- ing spiritual care among nurses working in hospitals.Method: A cross-sectional descriptive design was used. The participants were 370 nurses with more than 6 months of experience working in general hospitals in South Korea. The measures used in this study were nursing workplace spirituality, a spiritual well-being scale, the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Ser- vices Survey for Medical Personnel, a scale for compas- sionate care, a general self-efficacy scale, and spiritual care in practice. Path analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics, version 24.0, and SPSS Amos, version 20.0.Results: Workplace spirituality and spiritual well- being predicted higher spiritual care in practice by se- quentially mediating burnout and compassionate care.Conclusion: This study suggests that nurses' spiritual care can be increased via the development of specific strategies focused on enhancing the nursing work- place spirituality of hospital organizations, promoting individual spiritual well-being and compassionate be- havior, and reducing burnout among nurses. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2023;54(2):89-96.]

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This study aimed to establish a path model for predicting spiritual care among nurses in hospitals. The results showed that workplace spirituality and spiritual well-being predicted higher levels of spiritual care in practice through the mediating factors of burnout and compassionate care.