Spiritual care competence and its predictors among critical and emergency nurses: a cross-sectional study of spiritual intelligence and death attitudes

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Sara Rahimi and colleagues survey spiritual care skills among high-acuity nurses in a 2026 study from Qazvin, Iran. One hundred eighty emergency and intensive care nurses completed three questionnaires. Scales covered spiritual care competence, spiritual intelligence, and attitudes toward death. Most patients in these units face life-threatening illness or end-of-life questions. Logistic models hunted for what predicts stronger competence.

Competence and spiritual intelligence both landed at moderate levels. Among death attitudes, neutral acceptance scored highest and approach acceptance lowest. Older age, longer experience, higher spiritual intelligence, and a warmer attitude toward death each predicted competence. The authors suggest training should build spiritual care content into nursing education deliberately. Helping nurses make peace with death may also raise their readiness to support patients spiritually. The study gives hospital educators a concrete predictor list to work from. Cross-sectional data cannot prove cause, they note.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13292470