Evidence shows that patients consider nurses as a good source of spiritual information and are able to fulfil patients’ spiritual needs. Similarly, nurses are also willing to address patients’ spir- itual needs (Strang et al. 2002). However, despite the increasing importance of spiritual care in recent years (Lundmark 2006), there are still ambiguities about its nature and components (Strang et al. 2002). There are different definitions and descrip- tions of spiritual care in nursing literature, including, but not limited to,
• an effort to touch the spirit of another person (Dell’Orfano 2002),
• a set of highly fluid interpersonal processes of mutual recog- nition of human values and experiences (Mok et al. 2010), and • an interactive and intentional process between nurse and patient aiming at enhancing patients’ spiritual well-being (Burkhart et al. 2011).