American Research Journal of Nursing

 Background of the study: Spiritual care has recognized as part of holistic nursing care in promoting health and well-being. A holistic approach encourages the nurses to address all the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social needs of the patient by providing a complete model of care.Aim:To investigate the nurse’s perceptive on spiritual care competence. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive design was used to describe the perceptive of nurses on spiritual care competency at selected hospitals in Najran. Convenience sampling technique with 100 samples and the data was obtained through the spiritual care competence scale (SCCS) and a demographic questionnaire. Data were analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS statistical package. Results:The results showed that the mean score for the nurse’s perceptive on spiritual care competence was 67.6 that indicates that the nurses were average in providing spiritual care competency. The highest score was related to attitude towards patient spirituality mean, that is, 22.43 with SD 0.57 and the lowest score was related to communication domain that is, 10.6 with 0.68 standard deviation. Conclusion: The research findings suggest that the perceptive of nurses on spiritual care competency is average and they have to pay attention to the patient spiritual care to improve their spiritual needs.