• WP1: Mental Health

  There is little research in general in spirituality in mental health, and even less research brining patients’ voices to the table. In WP1 we have established a network in Western Norway for spiritual care in mental health.

  In WP1 we will collaborate with Mental Health practices, using the film Simon and God to encourage dialogue among health care professionals about how spiritual care and faith can be integrated into mental health in a safe way.

  Leader: Professor Tove Giske and Sølvi Eide
  Time frame: 2024 – 2026

• WP2: Older Care

  PhD candidate will build on the research from SEP-1, WP3 and develop educational material in spiritual care for nursing home staff.

  Time frame: 2024-2026

• WP3: Improving quality in spiritual care education

  PhD project at SPD by Joanne Lassche-Scheffer, with finding from Viaa, The Netherlands to investigate how implementation of the EPICC Self-assessment Tool i bachelor's in nursing education at Viaa.
  Timeframe: 2023 - 2026
  Supervisors: Tove Giske and Bart Cusveller

  Developing preceptors’ skills in supervising 1st years nursing students in spiritual care in nursing homes.
  Timeframe: 2024 – 2026
  Responsible person: Kirsten Tornøe

  International collaboration to strengthen spiritual care in education. We have a active collaboration with Benson Owusu at Central University in Ghana and Silvia Caldeira, at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Portugal.
  Timeframe: 2024 – 2026

• WP4: Continuing Professional Development (CDP) in nursing

  Development of Continuing Professional Development Programme in UK.
  Collaboration with Professor Linda Ross University of South Wales who has received funding for herself and Professor Wilfred McSherry Staffordshire University, to develop and test a CPE programme comprising of 6 modules.
  Timeframe: 2024 – 2025
  Responsible persons: Linda Ross, Wilfred McSherry and Tove Giske

  Continued Professional Development in Ghana.
  Timeframe; 2024 – 2026
  Responsible persons: Benson Owusu, Linda Ross, Wilfred McSherry, Tove Giske

  Continued Professional Development in California.
  Timeframe: 2024 – 2025
  Responsible persons: Pamela Cone and Tove Giske

• WP5: Translation and testing of EPICC materials into French for global use

  SEP2 will work on translation and testing of the EPICC Tool in French.
  Timeframe: 2024 – 2026
  Responsible persons: Pamela Cone

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 Søvik

  CRISTIN 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 – 2023

  We seek to understand how patients with mental illness experience existential and spiritual perspectives.

  Published work from WP 2:

  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.

  Simon and God – Film

  The film Simon and God was made in the SEP project WP2 in 2023.

• 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.

  Published work from WP 3:

  • Understanding Spiritual Care—Perspectives from Healthcare Professionals in a Norwegian Nursing Home
  • A qualitative hermeneutical understanding of spiritual care in old age when living in a nursing home: The residents' voices
• WP 4: To develop and test the EPICC Spiritual Care Educational Standard into a self-assessment questionnaire and promote the use of it

  In Work Package 4 we have built on the EPICC work where 31 researchers and educators from 21 European developed the EPICC Spiritual Care Education Standard (www.epicc-network.org).

  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.

  For more information about the EPICC work-group, visit EPICC Project.

  Download:
  EPICC Norsk. Standard for utdanning i åndelig omsorg
  EPICC, Norsk, vurderingsskjema

  Published work from WP 4:

  • Developing and testing the EPICC Spiritual Care Competency Self-Assessment Tool for student nurses and midwives
  • Strengths and challenges with spiritual care: Student feedback from the EPICC Spiritual Care Self-Assessment Tool
  • Åndelig omsorg handler om mer enn religiøs tro
  • Mot til å møte pasienten sine åndelege tankar og kjensler – ein kvalitativ studie

  

• 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.