title: Spiritual care: the needs of the caregiver.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the spiritual needs of the family caregiver and to provide suggestions for giving spiritual care to this caregiver.
  
  
  METHODS
  A caregiver's personal experience and nursing texts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Providing care for a loved one with cancer can be stressful for the family caregiver; yet, it can also produce spiritual growth. By providing care for the caregiver, the oncology nurse is equipping this caregiver to address the spiritual needs of the patient.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses can assist caregivers by offering actions that communicate love, support, acceptance, and faithfulness. Such measures can ease the pain and encourage spiritual wellness.
authors.affiliation: Staff Builders Home Health and Hospice, Lake Success, NY, USA.
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Carson
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology