The best nurses treat each and every patient as if they are a relative or loved one. And caring for dying patients is the most creative aspect of nursing. The language of spirituality is a way of putting into words something we don’t understand. The rituals that we perform may be different from one family to the next, but it is in the act of having respect for these individualities that shared humanity is expressed. Nurses have to honour the spirituality of their patients, however it is expressed, sometimes forcibly suppressing their own beliefs.
