Journal of Medical & Clinical Nursing

Background: Today spiritual care is considered an essential part of the overall care provided to improve the quality of life for the patient and their families. Today health is no longer viewed as a passive state of being, but as a dynamic process of attaining higher levels of wellness within each dimension. Spirituality and spiritual care are not new to nursing and healthcare system. The meaning of spirituality and spiritual care among nurses is culturally constituted and influenced by many factors such as the nurse’s ethnic background, religious affiliation, level of education and clinical experience. (Wu LF) Nursing students must receive appropriate training to develop their abilities to provide spiritual care.

Method: A Quasi experimental one group pretest and posttest design. Participants were first Year nursing student, studying the diploma course in nursing was chosen as the study sample. Total Enumeration method was used in the present study.

Results: There is significant positive correlation between academic score, knowledge score and compassionate score and significant negative correlation with General wellbeing score of nursing students. Compassionate score has a significant positive correlation between the knowledge score and academic score but has significant weak negative correlation with general wellbeing score. It means that the compassionate care has directly impact on both the spiritual knowledge and academic performance.

Conclusion: In the present study, the nursing student had shown acceptance towards spiritual health. There is significant relationship between knowledge score, academic score and compassionate score but no significance with GHQ score which states that the spiritual knowledge do have impact on academic and clinical performance of nursing students as they are positively correlated which directly has impact on quality patient care.