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

Miri, KH and Parsa, P and Shirdelzadeh, S and Keshavarz, A (2015) THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSES’ SPIRITUAL ELLIGENCE AND QUALITY OF NURSING CARE BASED ON NURSES' & PATIENTS' VIEWPOINTS. The Journal of Urmia Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, 13 (6). pp. 518-524.

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Abstract

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

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