title: Building Spiritual Care in Nursing: An Overview of Ku's Spiritual Studies in Taiwan.
abstract: This paper describes the overview of Ku's spiritual literature on nursing through five stages in Taiwan: the development of a spiritual framework, a scale of spiritual distress, a spiritual care model, a spiritual nursing course, and a spiritual care book in nursing. The article demonstrates the process of building spiritual care in nursing from constructing theoretical frameworks, measurements, and applying to education. The integrative overview of Ku's spiritual studies developed in this article could be an example in clinical and education fields for nurse administrators to develop spiritual capabilities.
authors.affiliation: Ya-Lie Ku, MSN, RN, is an associate professor in the Department of Nursing, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. She has taught nursing since 1994 and published widely on spiritual care in nursing practice and education.
authors.forename: Ya-Lie
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Ku
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses'; D026443:Spiritual Therapies / Q000193:education*; D029181:Spirituality; D013624:Taiwan