Australian student nurses and midwives could soon be using a new self-assessment tool to rate their competency in spiritual patient care. Research published in The Journal of Clinical Nursing developed the 'EPICC Spiritual Care Competency Self-Assessment Tool' for undergraduates to ...

Scientific advancements have revolutionised healthcare in Australia; people are living longer than ever before and treatment that once required hours of hands-on intervention can now be administered at the touch of button. The benefits of an efficient healthcare system are ...

Spiritual care has a long tradition in nursing dating back to the Middle Ages but contemporary nurses often feel ill-prepared to provide this form of care in their daily practice, writes Katherine Cooper. Registered nurses are required to provide spiritual ...

Acute care nurses need support to introduce spiritual care in their daily work, according to new research. Older more experienced nurses working in palliative care are more likely to include spiritual care in their day-to-day work than their younger counterparts, ...