Abstract

GOMEZ RAMIREZ, Olga Janeth et al. Spiritual well-being in the hospital environment: contributions for health humanization. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.1, pp.51-62. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.3627.

The objective of this article is to determine the spiritual well-being (SW) of nursing staff and their ethical contribution to health humanization. The method followed corresponds to the quantitative, descriptive and transversal approach. The sampling is not probabilistic, consisting of 148 nurses from two health institutions in the city of Bogotá (A and B). The SHALOM-3 instrument was applied to measure spiritual well-being (dissonance and harmony) in the personal, transcendental, environmental and communal domains. Regarding the results, the evaluation of the BE showed a high percentage of harmony in the two institutions; however, percentages of dissonance were found in institution B, in the transcendental (16% vs. 22%), environmental (12% vs. 19%) and personal (11% vs. 18%) domains. The importance of Spiritual Wellbeing for the humanization of health services in the hospital field is highlighted, since it contributes to a continuous improvement and quality assurance, both relevant concerns for bioethics in the study of the ethical climate in healthcare institutions.

Keywords : harmony; spiritual well-being; dissonance; nursing.

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