Meeting patients’ spiritual needs may or may not be about faith, but it’s always about learning what matters to patients and helping them find strength
What is spiritual care and how do I practise it? If this is a question you find yourself asking, it might be useful first to get some common misunderstandings about the nature of spiritual care out of the way, and then attempt to answer it. Let’s begin by stating what spiritual care is not:
Nursing Standard. 35, 9, 19-20. doi: 10.7748/ns.35.9.19.s12
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