whether spiritual care can be taught, or if it is determined more by the personal characteristics of the nurse
Barriers to integrating spiritual care into the curriculum may include the complexity of defining the concept within a multicultural society; the culture we live in that values secularism and materialism; the resource limitations experienced by many nursing programs; and the lack of models, faculty preparedness, and accountability (McSherry & Draper 1997, Hurley 1999).