1. Spiritual Care Matters An Online Resource

2. Spiritual Care in UWS  Three academic studies in ‘UWS’ exploring various aspects of spiritual care in the pre-registration nursing curriculum.  All acknowledged the lack of spiritual care in the curriculum and the need to have a structured approach to spiritual care education.  Agreed Agenda:  Form a Spiritual Care Education Group – UWS & NHS partners  Introduce Spiritual Care in Year One (Common Foundation Programme)  Produce resources/materials to support teaching staff to integrate spiritual care as part of holistic care.  Explore ways of assisting staff and students to meet their spiritual needs.  Consider the educational needs of qualified staff in conjunction with our NHS partners.

3. NES Spiritual Care Matters & UWS  NES gave us the ‘kick start’ start we need.  Identified the interested parties in UWS.  Made contact with our NHS partners.  Formed the (School) Spiritual Education Group.  NES Application  Online/eLearning Pack – for use in the Common Foundation Programme. As part of the wider agenda:  a) Production of resources for the Branch Programmes  b) Support an application from NHS Lanarkshire for a conference for a local ‘launch’ of Spiritual Care Matters.

4. Resource hierarchy: 7 Sections 1. Introduction 2. Spiritual care – a key concept; use of chaplaincy and spiritual care services 3. Communicating, Reflecting and Spiritual Self-awareness 4. Spiritual history taking and the use of stories 5. Spirituality, Equality, Diversity and Organisational Spirituality 6. Bereavement and Loss 7. Religious Care Section 0 – Online Resource Tour

5. Sections Overview Content Activity Summary Further Information Page 1 Page n Hyperlink Quiz question Quotation / case study

6. Functionality/Student Activity  Links to NES document  Whole document  Specific pages  Quiz Questions  Question types – MCQ, Multiple Response, Text entry  Correct feedback  Incorrect feedback  Real life scenarios – quotes/narratives from publication  Pop-ups  More information  Hints to quiz questions

7. Where are we at today?  We missed the deadline for the January 2010 cohort.  The pack has been produced and piloted amongst staff and interested parties.  It will be launched on 24th May 2010 to 370 student nurses across the four campuses.  It will be introduced to senior managers and clinicians in NHS Lanarkshire on 2nd June 2010.  In July/August 2010 it will be evaluated and any changes made.