Overview of Religiosity of Intensive Care Unit Nurses: A Narrative Review

Irfandi Rahman; Anastasia Anna; Aan Nuraeni

doi:10.37287/ijghr.v6i6.4525

Irfandi Rahman Universitas Padjadjaran https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8556-132X
Anastasia Anna Universitas Padjadjaran https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8824-7400
Aan Nuraeni Universitas Padjadjaran https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-7394

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37287/ijghr.v6i6.4525

Keywords: intensive care unit, nurse, religiosity

Abstract

The high demands on intensive care unit (ICU) nurses can be a source of stressors and cause distress for nurses. When nurses lack effective coping skills to deal with problems in the workplace, this can add to the stress levels of ICU nurses. Nurses' religiosity can affect nurses' beliefs in carrying out their duties as ICU nurses. The purpose of this narrative review was to understand and describe the religiosity of nurses in the intensive care unit. The method used was a narrative review with researchers searching for articles from quantitative and qualitative studies collected from electronic databases such as Pubmed, EBSCO, Cinahl, Science Direct, and Google Scholar, with keywords: religiosity, nurse, intensive care unit. We found ten articles and identified four themes related to the topic, namely: 1) the impact of nurses' religiosity, 2) dimensions of nurses' religiosity, 3) factors affecting nurses' religiosity, and 4) instruments to measure religiosity, namely: CRS, DSES, SSCRS, DUREL, PFS, PEMS, DRIS-F, MQS-T, and NSCTS.

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