Nurses'' Involvement in Spiritual Care: Its Implication to Holistic Care

The blending of technology and humanity is a great challenge for nurses.Though there is too much advancement due to the advent of computerization in sustaining life, nurses maintain to focus on humanistic care. Nurses have fourfold responsibilities:to promote health, prevent illness, restore health and alleviate sufferings.In rendering holistic care, the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual dimension of patient is addressed. The spiritual dimension however is frequently overlooked by the health care giver. This study was conducted to identify the involvement of nurses in the provision of spiritual care to patients at East Avenue Medical Center and its implication to holistic care.It provided also the patients perception to spiritual care rendered by the nurses.It supplied information on the hindrances encountered in providing the spiritual care and possible solutions offered by the respondents to help in solving the problems.