Title Nurses' spiritual learning at university
Authors Sucylaite, Jurate
DOI 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.834
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Is Part of Procedia : social and behavioral sciences: 2nd Cyprus international conference on Educational research, (CY-ICER 2013) : February 14-16, 2013, Cyprus.. Amsterdam : Elsevier. 2013, vol. 89, p. 199-204.. ISSN 1877-0428
Keywords [eng] nursing students ; poetic therapy ; Spirituality ; connectedness
Abstract [eng] Spiritual care is seen as a part of the nurses’ responsibility. Contemporary literature discusses Spirituality as individual's experience with the sacred, which can be experienced anywhere. This exploratory work has a purpose to explain a need of Spiritual education in nursing studies program. Alternative poetic therapy course was suggested for nursing students at Klaipeda University having a goal to develop students’ connectedness with the self, with others, to act on their professional attitudes by stimulating highest human values. Descriptive statistics were used to show nursing students’ spiritual development trends learning poetry therapy course. Qualitative research let to know the benefit of poetic therapy course in nursing studies program, and to explain the process of Spiritual learning - teaching.
Published Amsterdam : Elsevier
Type Conference paper
Language English
Publication date 2013
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