Additional resources

Royal College of Nursing Direct: contact 0345 772 6100
Royal College of Nursing (2011a) The RCN spirituality survey 2010: a report by the RCN on members’ views on spirituality and spiritual care in nursing practice, London: RCN
Royal College of Nursing (2011b) Spirituality in nursing care: a pocket guide, London: RCN
Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008) The code: standards of conduct performance and ethics for nurses and midwives, London: NMC
The codes of professional practice of other health care professionals.
Employer related codes of practice.

British Association for the Study of Spirituality: www.basspirituality.org.uk
Research Institute for Spirituality and Health: www.rish.ch
World Health Organisation: www.who.int
The Association for Children’s Spirituality: www.childrenspirituality.org
Centre for Spirituality, Health & Disability: www.abdn.ac.uk/cshad
Foundation for Workplace Spirituality: www.workplacespirituality.org.uk/
Autism Spectrum People and Religion Research Group: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/religion/researchgroups/asparrg/asparrg-autism-spectrum-people-and-religion-research-group.html
European Society for the Study of Theology of Disability: www.esstd.org/
Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group: www.rcpsych.ac.uk
National Secular Society: www.secularism.org.uk

Department of Health (2009) Religion or belief: a practical guide for the NHS, London: DH.
NHS Education for Scotland (2009) Spiritual care matters: an introductory resource for all NHS Scotland staff, Edinburgh: NHSES.
Welsh Assembly Government (2010) Standards for spiritual care services in the NHS in Wales 2010, Cardiff: WAG.
National Institute for Clinical Excellence (2009) Supportive and palliative care. Improving supportive and palliative care for adults with cancer, London: NICE.
Marie Curie Cancer Care (2003) Spiritual and religious care competencies for specialist palliative care, London: MCCC.
Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute (2010) Liverpool care pathway for the dying patient: pocket guide, Liverpool: MCPCI.

Cockell, N., McSherry, W. (2012) Spiritual care in nursing: a review of the empirical literature between 2006 and 2011, Journal of Nursing Management, 20 (8), pp.958–969
McSherry W and Ross L (editors) (2010) Spiritual assessment in healthcare practice, Keswick: M&K Publishing.
Narayanasamy A (2001) Spiritual care: a practical guide for nurses and health care practitioners, London: Quay Books.
Ross L (2006) Spiritual care within nursing: an overview of the research to date, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 15 (7), pp.852–862.
Swinton J (2001) Spirituality and mental health care: rediscovering a ‘forgotten dimension’, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Timmins, F., McSherry, W. (2012) Editorial - Spirituality: the Holy Grail of contemporary nursing practice Journal of Nursing Management, 20 (8), pp.951–957