A lack of respect, dignity, compassion and failure to look beyond the clinical condition is evident in nursing today, according to a senior lecturer in nursing who spoke at a conference in Dublin at the weekend.

“Healthcare services clearly consider the spiritual to be important in policies and practices, yet spiritual care is recognised when it is absent,” said Dr Linda Ross, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Health, Sport and Science at the University of Glamorgan in Wales who spoke on the theme of Spiritual Care: A Call Too Far in a Busy National Health Service?

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