Spirituality is an integral part of a persons wholeness and therefore has an effect on and plays an important role in health and illness. Nurses are required by national and international nursing bodies as well as hospital accreditation agencies, to identify patients spiritual needs and intervene by integrating spiritual care into their nursing care. However, to date, no nursing studies have described Tanzanian nurses experiences of spirituality and spiritual care. The qualitative method of interpretive description was used. A purposive sample of fifteen registered nurses who were engaged in direct clinical practice at one of the private not-for-profit hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania was drawn. In-depth interviews using open-ended questions were carried out, tape-recorded, and transcribed verbatim. The data collection and analysis occurred concurrently. The transcripts were coded using inductive analysis. Themes related to spirituality and spiritual care that emerged from data were: meaning of spirituality, meaning of spiritual care, recognition of spiritual needs, interventions to respond to spiritual needs, challenges addressing spiritual care, and factors positively influencing the provision of spiritual care. Several recommendations for enhancing spiritual caregiving practices were given by participants. The findings from this study offer a basis for assessment, planning, and intervention strategies that nurses can apply in integrating spiritual care in clinical practice.

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) / This thesis consists of a series of studies of new models of multidisciplinary community health care in four compartments. These compartments are acute, subacute, outpatient and maintenance care. The purpose of the individual studies is to demonstrate the benifits of munltidisciplinary community health care in delivering alternatives to current practice by replacing hospital care or improving traditional community care.

This study is a response to the reported dissatisfaction of parents with postnatal maternity care services. The study adopted an action research methodology and followed the cycle of planning, action, observation and reflection to explore the provision of education and support to parents during the early postnatal period in order to develop, implement and evaluate strategies to improve postnatal care for mothers and fathers.

Thesis (M.S.)--Eastern Illinois University, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-60).

Thesis (M. Nurs.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Michal Perlman.

Thesis (M.S.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 29).

Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Univ., 2001. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Political Science, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.