Spiritual Care Education and Practice Development (SEP)
Spiritual Care Education and Practice Development (SEP)
The SEP project is one of three appointed Excellence in Research projects at VID Specialized University 2020 – 2023.
The SEP project is one of three appointed Excellence in Research projects at VID Specialized University 2020 – 2023.
Our vision in the SEP project is to contribute to enhance spiritual care in nursing practice to the benefits of patients.
The overall objective is that the SEP-project develops into an internationally acknowledged Centre of Excellence for Spiritual Care Education for undergraduate nursing students.
Our aims are to:
- Develop students’ confidence and competence in assessing and delivery of spiritual care by facilitation of learning within clinical practice
- Develop a model for practice to strengthen clinical nurses as spiritual care providers, role models and supervisors for nursing students, as well as enhancing patients’ life-led care
- Build collaboration with the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Christian University of North Haiti (UCNH) to develop capacity for spiritual care education in the nursing program there (theory and practice).
The international group leading the SEP-project is:
- Professor in Nursing, PhD, Tove Giske, VID Specialized University, Faculty of Health Studies, Bergen, Norway
- Associate Professor, PhD, Linda Rykkje, VID Specialized University, Faculty of Health Studies, Bergen, Norway
- Professor in Nursing, Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, PhD, Wilfred McSherry, University of Staffordshire, School of Health Care and Social Care, UK. Professor II VID Specialized University, Faculty of Health Studies, Bergen
- Professor in Caring Science, Fellow of American Academy of Nursing, PhD, Charlotte Delmar, Head of the Nursing and General Medicine Section at Aarhus University, Department of Public Health, Health Faculty, Denmark. Professor II at VID Specialized University, Bergen, Norway.
- Professor, PhD, Pamela Cone, Azusa Pacific University, School of Nursing, CA
- Professor, PhD,Linda Ross South Wales University, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, UK.
- Professor, PhD, Rene van Leeuwen, Viaa Christian University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Link to researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Spiritual-Care-Education-and-Practice-Development-SEP (main page for the SEP project.)
CRISTIN page for the project: https://app.cristin.no/projects/show.jsf?id=2051161
The SEP project is organised into five work packages:
- WP 1: Scoping review of student learning about spiritual care during clinical studies.
Leader: Associate Professor Linda Rykkje
Time frame: 2020 – 2021
Working group: Professor Tove Giske, Professor Wilfred Mc Sherry, Professor Pamela Cone, Professor Linda Ross, Librarian VID Margrethe Bakstad SøvikCRISTIN scoping review: https://app.cristin.no/projects/show.jsf?id=2051164
- WP 2:Existential and spiritual experiences in mental health
Leader: Professor Tove Giske
Time frame: 2020 – 2023We seek to understand how patients with mental illness experience existential and spiritual perspectives.
We have conducted one pilot study which is published:
Cone, P., & Giske, T. (2021). Mental Health Staff Per-spectives on Spiritual Care Competencies in Nor-way: A Pilot Study.Frontiers in Psychology,12, 794165-794165.
- WP 3: Application research in nursing home with the aim to develop an innovative teaching program to strengthen clinical nurses and other health care providers as spiritual care providers, role models and supervisors
Leader: Associate Professor Linda Rykkje
PhD student: Marianne Morland
Time frame: 2020 – 2023
Co-supervisor: Professor Wilfred McSherry
Working group: Leaders and nurses from Siljuslåtten Nursing home. - WP 4: To develop and test the EPICC Spiritual Care Educational Standard into a self-assessment questionnaire and promote the use of it.
In WP 4 we will translate the EPICC Spiritual Care Educational Standard Self-assessment Tool into Norwegian and develop and test the EPICC Spiritual Care Educational Standard into a self-assessment questionnaire and promote the use of it.
Leader: Professor Tove Giske
Time frame: 2020 – 2023
Working group: Associate Professor Britt M Kuven, Western Norway University of Applies Sciences, Associate Professor Venke Ueland, University of Stavanger, Associate Professor Bodil Bø Våga, University of Stavanger, Professor Wilfred Mc Sherry, Professor Pamela Cone, Professor Linda Ross, and Professor Rene van Leeuwen.I perioden 2016 – 2019 arbeidde 31 forskarar og undervisarar frå 21 europeisks land i eit ERASMUS+ prosjekt med navnet EPICC med å utvikle ein standard for utdanning i åndeleg omsorg for sjukepleiarstudentar. I arbeidspakke 4 i SEP-prosjektet har vi omsett denne standarden til norsk og brukt denne prosedyra for omsetting:
- Ei gruppe på fire, som kunne både engelsk og norsk, og som kjente til tematikken åndeleg omsorg i sjukepleien, omsette standarden frå engelsk til norsk – individuelt og som gruppe.
- Lederen for arbeidspakke 4 gjekk gjennom omsettelsen og justerte den for godkjenning på dette nivået.
- To personar, som var gode i norsk og engelsk og som ikkje kjente til standarden, omsette den kvar for seg, tilbake til engelsk.
- Eit ekspertpanel på seks personar, med gode kunnskapar i norsk og engelsk, og som representerte sjukepleie, utdanning og forsking, vurderte den opprinnelege engelske versjonen, den norske omsettelsen og dei to engelske tilbake-omsettelsane og skreiv fram den endelege norske omsettelsen som du kan finne her.
For more information about the EPICC work-group, visit www.epicc-project.eu.
Last ned EPICC Norsk. Standard for utdanning i åndelig omsorg her
EPICC, Norsk, vurderingsskjema
- WP 5: Spiritual Care in the Global South – working with the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Christian University of North Haiti (UCHN).
WP 5: Spiritual Care in the Global South – working with the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Christian University of North Haiti (UCHN), to develop a teaching package for spiritual care education.
Leader: Professor Tove Giske
Time frame: 2020 – 2023
Working group: Professor Pamela Cone, Associate Professor Linda Rykkje, Director and faculty from the UCHN School of Nursing.
Nyheter
- VID er tildelt midler i UTFORSK
To fluer i ein smekk – dette prosjektet er med på å vidareutvikle SEP-prosjektet (Spiritual Care Education and Practice Development) og det styrker VID sitt samarbeid med Azusa Pacific University i California.Tildelinga av UTFORSK-prosjektet i-SEP anerkjenner behovet for å styrke undervisning i åndeleg omsorg.
- Ny artikkel: Educational interventions and strategies for spiritual care in nursing and healthcare students and staff: A scoping review
- Ny bok "Understanding Ageing for Nurses and Therapists"
Link to download the e-book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-40075-0 - Dear researcher in spiritual care!
