Nurses' and midwives' acquisition of competency in spiritual care: A focus on education

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1460-1466

  Attard, Josephine ^a,b   Baldacchino, Donia R ^a,c   Camilleri, Liberato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competences; Holistic care; Midwives; Nurses; Outcome; Spiritual care; Students; Teaching

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELPHI STUDY; EDUCATION; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMAN; MALTA; MIDWIFE; NURSING STUDENT; PROCEDURES; RELIGION; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMANS; MALTA; MIDWIFERY; SPIRITUALITY; STUDENTS, NURSING; TEACHING;

EID: 84923415993     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2014.04.015     Document Type: Article

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