Spiritual care and spirituality in academic nursing training: scoping review ; Cuidado espiritual y espiritualidad en la formación académica de enfermería: revisión de alcance ; Cuidado espiritual e espiritualidade na formação acadêmica de enfermagem: revisão de escopo

Objective: To map existing studies in scientific literature addressing spiritual care and spirituality in academic nursing training. Materials and method: This is a scoping review, whose article search was conducted in July 2023 in the databases Scopus, Medline/PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google® Scholar, and through a manual search of entries in the list of references of selected papers. The following research question was formulated for this study: How are spiritual care and spirituality addressed in academic nursingtraining? After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the final sample consisted of 45 papers. Results: The main findings highlight a deficit in academic training, the importance of teachers as facilitators of the teaching-learning process, the essential methodologies to address the issue of spirituality, and the specific competences required in spiritual care, such ascommunication, empathy, attitude towards the patient’s spirituality, personal support, counseling, and the proper application of the nursing process in this type of care. Conclusions: This review made it possible to identify how spiritual care and spirituality are addressed in the academic training of nurses, where the insertion of educational resources for spiritual care and approaches based on competences were emphasized. Despite this, spiritual-related teaching is still deficient in academic formation.Studies recommend modifying the curriculum to strengthen competencies related to spirituality and spiritual care in the nursing academy. ; Objetivo: mapear los estudios existentes en la literatura científica relacionados con el cuidado espiritual y la espiritualidad en la formación académica en enfermería.Materiales y método: revisión de alcance realizada en julio de 2023 en las bases de datos Scopus, Medline/PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google® Scholar y por medio de las listas de referencias de documentos seleccionados. Se delimitó la siguiente pregunta de investigación: ¿cómo se aborda el cuidado espiritual y la espiritualidad en la ...