Donia Baldacchino

Prof. Donia Baldacchino


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Academic Career Length

24Years (2003-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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15 June 2006 in Journal of Clinical Nursing
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Donia Baldacchino

1 May 2014 in Nurse Education Today
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Linda RossLinda Ross
Linda Ross
RLRené van Leeuwen
René van Leeuwen
DBDonia Baldacchino
Donia Baldacchino
TGTove Giske
Tove Giske
Wilfred McsherryWilfred Mcsherry
Wilfred Mcsherry
ASAnnemiek Schep-Akkerman
Annemiek Schep-Akkerman

8 May 2015 in Religions
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Donia Baldacchino
Nurses and health care professionals should have an active role in meeting the spiritual needs of patients in collaboration with the family and the chaplain. Literature criticizes the impaired holistic care because the spiritual dimension is often overlooked by health care professionals. This could be due to feelings of incompetence due to lack of education on spiritual care; lack of inter-professional education (IPE); work overload; lack of time; different cultures; lack of attention to personal spirituality; ethical issues and unwillingness to deliver spiritual care. Literature defines spiritual care as recognizing, respecting, and meeting patients’ spiritual needs; facilitating participation in religious rituals; communicating through listening and talking with clients; being with the patient by caring, supporting, and showing empathy; promoting a sense of well-being by helping them to find meaning and purpose in their illness and overall life; and referring them to other professionals, including the chaplain/pastor. This paper outlines the systematic mode of intra-professional theoretical education on spiritual care and its integration into their clinical practice; supported by role modeling. Examples will be given from the author’s creative and innovative ways of teaching spiritual care to undergraduate and post-graduate students. The essence of spiritual care is being in doing whereby personal spirituality and therapeutic use of self contribute towards effective holistic care. While taking into consideration the factors that may inhibit and enhance the delivery of spiritual care, recommendations are proposed to the education, clinical, and management sectors for further research and personal spirituality to ameliorate patient holistic care.

1 January 2016 in Nurse Education Today
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Linda RossLinda Ross
Linda Ross
TGTove Giske
Tove Giske
RLRené van Leeuwen
René van Leeuwen
DBDonia Baldacchino
Donia Baldacchino
Wilfred McsherryWilfred Mcsherry
Wilfred Mcsherry
ASAnnemiek Schep-Akkerman
Annemiek Schep-Akkerman

1 December 2014 in Nurse Education Today
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JAJosephine Attard
Josephine Attard
DBDonia Baldacchino
Donia Baldacchino
LCLiberato Camilleri
Liberato Camilleri