title: What is spiritual care in nursing? Findings from an exercise in content validity.
abstract: The scope and nature of what is spiritual care in nursing are poorly defined. This article explores what is nursing spiritual care using data collected from a panel of 9 experts for the purposes of establishing content validity for an instrument to measure frequency of nurse-provided spiritual care therapeutics.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California 92350, USA. ejtaylor@llu.edu
authors.forename: Elizabeth Johnston
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000379:methods*; D009736:Nursing Process; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D010327:Pastoral Care; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012586:Science; D029181:Spirituality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*