Aru Narayanasamy

TL;DR: There is scope for developing an ideal model of spiritual care using the critical incident data from this study, and an overwhelming consensus that patients' faith and trust in nurses produces a positive effect on patients and families, and nurses themselves derived satisfaction from the experience of giving spiritual care.

TL;DR: The asset model (actioning spirituality and spiritual Care education and training in Nursing) is recommended as a possible option for improving spiritual care education in nursing and should prove to be a useful framework and catalyst in effecting change in nurses' knowledge and understanding of the spiritual care requirements of patients.

TL;DR: Whether students' perceptions of spirituality can be broadened to include the full range of spiritual needs patients may encounter and whether their competence can be enhanced by education to better equip them to deliver spiritual care is worthy of further investigation.

TL;DR: A critical incident study to explore nurses' perceptions of their role in addressing the spiritual needs of older people and describe what constitutes spiritual care of old people in the light of the findings provides empirical evidence of some practices related to spiritual care for older people.

TL;DR: It is suggested that although nurses are aware of spiritual needs of patients, these are poorly met and nurses' competence in meetingspiritual needs of their patients should be improved by further education in spiritual care.