Spirituality and the social representations of cancer nurses
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Objective: To understand the social representations of nurses who care for cancer patients about spirituality. Method: This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach and application of the Theory of Social Representations, using the free association of words with 16 nurses in an oncology hospital. The ATLAS.ti software version 22.7 and Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis were used to process the data. Results: It is understood that belief in this context is linked to the spirituality mentioned by the deponents, which, in this opportunity, is associated with believing positively in healing and the propensity for clinical and spiritual improvement. Final considerations: It emerged that spirituality is associated with senses and meanings, which anchor and support the nursing care that it already has at its core. It was revealed that nurses link spirituality to aspects of nursing care, such as the process of caring and the willingness to improve the patient.
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