Spiritual health nurses working in hospitals and critical care departments of Ilam city in 2015

Abstract

For downloading the full-text of this article please click here. Background and Objectives: Nurses communicate directly with patients. if they have higher spiritual health provide more care to patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the spiritual health of nurses in the critical departments of hospitals in Ilam. Materials and Methods: Using descriptive correlation study, a questionnaire with 20 questions about spiritual health was designed from the Islamic perspective. 60 nurses working at Critical care department of Ilam hospitals were selected by available sampling . The questionnaire was designed for six options Likert scale. Scores of participants were between 20 -120 which were divided into 4 categories. SPSS software was used for data analysis. Results: 42% and 58%of samples were male and female, respectively. None of the nurses had low score (40-20), 10 nurses (17%) received the lower-middle score (70-41), 30 nurses (50%) and 20 nurses (33%) achieved the upper-middle (99-71) and high score (120-100), respectively. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between the total number of spiritual health and gender(P Value<0.05 ). Conclusion: More nurses received a high score of spiritual health. This results show that with proper planning, it can be benefit for the pastoral care of the patient. Keywords: Spiritual health, Nurses, Critical care department For downloading the full-text of this article please click here.