ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Spiritual Care[Givers] Competence in Palliative Care: A Scoping Review.
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- The mediating role of death anxiety between meaning in life and spiritual care competence among Chinese nursing interns: implications for healthcare training.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Development and validation of the questionnaire "Spiritual Needs in Palliative Care" in Finnish.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Article
- Experiences of Primary Care Nurse Case Managers in Palliative Care Needs Identification and Complex Chronic Patients' Referral to Advanced Palliative Care Resources.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Seeking Something Beyond Themselves: A Concept Analysis of Spiritual Awakening Experiences at the End of Life.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Spiritual Care Competence in Palliative Care: A Concept Analysis.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Is Spirituality Included in Spanish Language Pain Assessment Scales? A Scoping Review of Instruments Available.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Training well-rounded healthcare professionals through developing religious/spiritual competencies: a grounded theory study in Iran.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Impact of job crafting and work engagement on the mental and physical health of palliative care nurses.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Spirituality and palliative care: international models and new perspectives.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Review
- Analysis of influencing factors of orthopedic nurses' spiritual care competencies based on structural equation model.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
To deliver spiritual care, professionals must be skilled in physical, mental, social, and spiritual care. Spiritual care competence includes knowledge, behaviors, attitudes, and skills that enable successful or efficient care. This review aims to identify the scope of competence and the specific skills, knowledge, and attitudes used in providing spiritual care to people needing palliative care, and the main challenges and facilitators. A scoping review was developed using the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. Six databases (Web of Science; MEDLINE/Pubmed; Scopus; CINAHL; MedicLatina and SciELO) were searched in September 2023, with an update in January 2024. The resulting 30 articles were analyzed using a content analysis approach. Information was categorized into three domains: cognitive, affective, and functional (based on three personal resources: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal). Palliative care professionals face a lack of training and insufficient preparation to deliver spiritual care. Spiritual care competence depends on professional spiritual development and experience, spiritual intelligence (cognitive), spiritual humility (affective), and having a critical and reflexive mind (functional). In the future, palliative care should seek to improve competent spiritual care. This review could help clarify the real configuration of competent spiritual care and lead to improvements in a professional's empowerment when delivering effective spiritual care to patients and families.
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