Gerard Kenny addresses the issue of children’s spirituality and makes recommendations for the skills required to facilitate spiritual care within the context of holistic nursing

The purpose of this discussion is twofold: first, to identify the obstacles that nurses face when trying to incorporate spirituality into the holistic assessment of the children in their care; second, to ascertain what form spiritual expression might take within the hospital setting, and how that expression can be interacted with and nurtured. Children in hospital have been poorly served in both of these areas.