Pengalaman Perawat Pelaksana dalam Memberikan Dukungan Spiritual Kepada Pasien Rawat Inap di RSUD. Aceh Tamiang

Abstract

Spiritual support is an attempt from other people to increase life spirit in the receiver. Nurses' support includes praying beside patients, reminding patients and their families to pray, giving spirit, facilitating meeting with religious figures, and giving the opportunity for the families to visit patients. The objective of the research was to deeply explore nurse practitioners in giving spiritual support to inpatients in a hospital. The research used qualitative phenomenological descriptive method; the data were gathered by conducting in-depth interviews and analyzed by using Colaizzi data analysis. The samples were 10 nurse practitioners, taken by using purposive sampling technique. The result of the research showed that there were 6 themes which described the experience of nurse practitioners in giving spiritual support to inpatients which included their experience in implementing spiritual support to patients, benefit of giving spiritual support to patients, obstacles in giving spiritual support to patients, and expectation in giving spiritual support to patients. The conclusion of the research was that there were still many nurses who worked in the Inpatient Wards had not carry out their duty in giving spiritual support to patients. It was recommended that nursing administrator carry out advocacy in making hospital policy on nurses' responsibility in implementing spiritual support and in implementing spiritual support in wards.