Students in the first and fourth years of the
baccalaureate program were asked to complete
a spiritual well-being scale and to respond in
writing to three open-ended questions: (1) How
would you define/describe your spirituality?
(2) What does a nurse do to provide spiritual
care? (3) What are your thoughts on nurses
talking to patients about their own religious
beliefs and values? The spiritual well-being
scale is a 20-item scale, developed by Raymond
Paloutzian and Craig Ellison (1982), designed
to measure the quality of one's spiritual health