THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSES’ SPIRITUAL ELLIGENCE AND QUALITY OF NURSING CARE BASED ON NURSES' & PATIENTS' VIEWPOINTS

Improving patients’ quality of care is the final goal of nurses. On the other
hand, personal characteristics and beliefs of nurses can help in their effective role playing, which
could affect the caring process. Therefore, this study was done to assess the relationship between
nurses’ spiritual intelligence and their patients’ quality of care in educational hospitals of Gonabad
University of Medical Sciences.
Material & Methods: This was a descriptive correlational study which was carried out on 200 nurses
& patients who were selected by simple sampling. The applied Questionnaires included QUALPAC
nurses’ quality of care, and Badie’s 42-questions spiritual intelligence. The validity and reliability of
the test were verified by Alpha Cronbach’s method which was 0.85 & 0.8, respectively. The
relationship between nurses’ spiritual intelligence and their patients’ quality of care was assessed by
Pearson’s correlation test.
Results: Based on the nurses opinion, the mean number of spiritual intelligence and nurses’ quality of
care were 117.2±16.0 and 177.4±40.0, respectively, while quality of care in patients viewpoint was
121.2±20.0. There was a positive significant correlation between spiritual intelligence and nurses’
quality of care (p=0.020, r=0.231). But there was no significant relationship between demographic
characteristics such as gender, education, work experience and nurses’ spiritual intelligence and their
patients’ quality of care.
Conclusions: Improving spiritual intelligence can help in increasing patients’ quality of care due to
encouraging nurses’ beliefs and personality. So, nurses’ mental health and upper spiritual health in
clinical environment could improve their function, and it can affect their role playing which could
improve clients’ health