Table 1.

Analysis of Spiritual Care Experiences of Acute- Care Hospital Nurses.

Code	Sub category	Category
- Religious care	Confusing terms	Ambiguous concept
- Emotional care
- Hospice care
- Others’ job, not a nursing care
- Unfamiliar and unknown concept	An additional job
- Sensitive to spiritual care needs
- Finding a spiritual care request	Looking for spiritual care needs	Assessment of spiritual care needs
- Insensitive to spiritual care needs	Not recognizing spiritual care needs
- Forming a close relationship with patients	Establishing a channel for spiritual care	Active spiritual care	Spiritual care practices
- Forming a close relationship with nurses
- Carrying out religious activities	Nurse-led religious behavior
- Permitting patients’ religious behavior	Permitting patients’ religious behavior
- Comfort of the patient
- Comfort of the family	Comfort of the recipient	Outcomes of spiritual care
- Nurse’s satisfaction	Comfort of the provider
- Difficulties of revealing religious action	Fear of criticism from others	Barriers to spiritual care
- Absence of practical training	Lack of education
- Lack of time	Lack of time
- Space constraints	Space constraints
- Absence of a recording system	Absence of a recording system