The impact of nurses’ faith on their work in the patients’ perception

Introduction: Religious practices are one of the most important factors for predicting psychological well-being.

Aim of the study: To assess the impact of nurses’ faith on the professional functions of in the patients’ perception.

Material and methods: The study included 150 patients. We used the original questionnaire.

Results: According to the majority of patients, religion does not affect the choice of a profession (45.3%), the quality of professional tasks (62.3%), but affects to some treatments, such as blood transfusion (50%). Sixty percent of the respondents reported that the nurse religion did not matter. In case of conflict with the religious views of therapy, the patient nurse should consult their action with another nurse (42%). And, when it conflicts with nurse belief, she should transfer the patient to another nurse (47.3%). When patients staying in a hospital, they have the rights to pastoral care (93.3%), to free access to a priest (87.2%), and the religious practices (88.7%). According to 36% of the physicians and 37% of nurses the patients’ faith was important.

Conclusions: According to patients, most preferred values were family happiness, good health, and faith. The majority of patients declared that religion did not affect the choice of a profession, and on nurses care. Most of the patients reported that in the case of faith conflicts with therapy, the patient should be transferred to another nurse.