Authors
1 Patient Safety Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
2 Center for Econometric Optimization in the Nursing Workforce, Seoul, Korea
Abstract
A spiritual well‑being‑based nursing intervention may boost older adults’ resilience‑based recovery. Its
potential contribution may have positive knock‑on effects: controlling skyrocketing healthcare costs;
reducing the productive population’s social burden of supporting the older adults; and alleviating a
generational conflict. However, healthcare policy‑makers are still skeptical about investing in those
healthcare resources which would develop and implement a spiritual well‑being‑based nursing
intervention for older adults. It is time for nurse scientists, as front‑line gatekeepers for patients’
omnidirectional well‑being, to escape from thinking within the box by actively addressing first the
feasibility, then the direct and indirect effectiveness on actual patient outcomes, and finally the cost
efficiency of a spiritual well‑being‑based nursing intervention for the added benefit of easing the
decision‑making of healthcare policy‑makers.
Keywords
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