What Is the Essence of Spiritual Care? A Danish Hospice Perspective.
This study explored patients', relatives', and healthcare professionals' experience of life and caring practice in two Danish hospice settings. Using a phenomenological approach, four caring themes emerged from data analysis: recognized as an individual human being; caring as doing and being; caring for the whole body; and spaces of caring. Spiritual care was understood as providing whole-body experiences, respecting the patient, and involving the other person.
Vibeke Ostergaard Steenfeldt, PhD, RN, works as a senior lecturer in nursing at the University College of Zealand, Denmark. She is head of the parish council under The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark.
Vibeke Ostergaard
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Steenfeldt
D002835:Christianity; D004645:Empathy; D017051:Hospice Care; D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D029181:Spirituality