Integrating Spiritual Care During Interprofessional Simulation for Baccalaureate Nursing Students

Abstract

Interprofessional educational experiences for baccalaureate nursing students are essential to prepare them for interprofessional communication and collaborative interprofessional teamwork. The aim of this descriptive qualitative study was to understand the experience of baccalaureate nursing students utilizing the hospital chaplain while caring for a suicidal patient in the emergency department during simulation. The need for interprofessional education is documented in the literature, but there are very few comprehensive, successful projects integrating spiritual care for nurse educators to use as models. This project can serve as a model of a successful interprofessional education initiative involving preprofessional nursing students and chaplain services. Overall, nursing students found the learning experience to be beneficial in preparation for professional practice on a collaborative interprofessional health care team.

Keywords

educators group/population spirituality common themes psychosocial/mental health specific conditions

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