title: Deriving meaning and faith in caregiving.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review assessment of spiritual needs of family caregivers and four core interventions by nurses in addressing spirituality: presence, deep listening, bearing witness and compassion in action.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Spirituality is increasingly recognized as a key domain of quality of life and essential to quality cancer care. In addition to the needs of patients, family caregivers also experience enormous spiritual needs throughout cancer diagnosis and treatment. Nurses can provide valuable spiritual assessment of family caregivers and support them as they seek support services to address spiritual needs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Family caregiving can be a time of growth and meaning when support is provided by nurses and their colleagues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA. bferrell@coh.org
authors.forename: Betty R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Ferrell
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Baird
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing; D029181:Spirituality