Spiritual and emotional care is an important part of the person, especially in situations such as changes in health or a community coping with a pandemic. However, nurses report scarce university training in this area of care. The aim of the study is to define a catalogue of learning outcomes for spiritual and emotional care for undergraduate nurses. The design used a mixed method for the development and validation of learning outcomes. The first phase designs the catalogue of learning outcomes through a coordinating group and uses a bibliographic search and nursing legislation. The second phase validates the proposal through a group of experts, with a questionnaire using the modified Delphi technique in two rounds. The initial proposal was 75 learning outcomes, of which 17 were eliminated, 36 changed their wording and the experts proposed 7 new ones. The experts validated 65 learning outcomes: 14 for Assessment and diagnosis; 5 for Planning; 17 for Intervention; 4 for Evaluation and quality; 8 for Communication and interpersonal relationship and 17 for Knowledge and intrapersonal development. In conclusion, the academic curriculum can include these learning outcomes to help undergraduate nurses in the process of acquiring knowledge, skills and attitudes in spiritual and emotional care.

Si entendemos la intimidad como la zona espiritual íntima reservada, y que la enfermedad afecta a la totalidad de la persona, podemos colegir que el cuidado es integral y eficaz si incluye esos aspectos íntimos de la persona. Diferentes estudios demuestran que el cuidado espiritual depende de la formación y del desarrollo de la espiritualidad del profesional de enfermería. Partiendo de esta concepción, se plantea la necesidad de incluir, en la formación universitaria de enfermería, competencias que le ayuden en ese cuidado: formación en humanidades, la metodología enfermera orientada al cuidado de los problemas relacionados con la espiritualidad, y el desarrollo de la propia espiritualidad.