Advanced spiritual care course for Vietnam nursing master’s program
International Journal of Development Research
Advanced spiritual care course for Vietnam nursing master’s program
Received 17th December, 2018; Received in revised form 19th January, 2019; Accepted 26th February, 2019; Published online 29th March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Nguyen Dieu Hang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article introduces a course of advanced spiritual care for the Vietnam nursing master’s program. The course description, goals, teaching methods, schedules, content, and evaluation process are addressed. The ultimate aim is that the Vietnam nursing master’s students in this advanced spiritual nursing care course explore their own spiritual status through reflection upon the development process and the analysis of concepts of spiritual well-being, crisis, distress, and suffering. Using basic spiritual knowledge, the Vietnam nursing students can improve their practical spiritual assessment skills to further comprehend clinical cases. The course also helps them identify their own spiritual problems through the narrative process and therapy and design spiritual interventions using therapies involving literature, music, art, and nature.
