ABSTRACT
This chapter starts by revisiting the study's aims and objectives. It concerns the practicalities of accessing nurses as research participants and conducting semi-structured interviews as the primary means of collecting data. The chapter aims to explore nurses' lived experience of spirituality as a means of helping patients to cope with loss associated with terminal or chronic disease. It explores the extent to which nurses facilitate spirituality as a source of coping. The chapter also explores how nurses use their personal resources in caring for those with chronic and terminal conditions. Nurses who were willing to participate in semi-structured interviews were provided with written information. In purposively inviting experienced nurses from practice environments that involve interface with situations of end of life care, a small sample size provided optimal-quality data, rich and thick enough to facilitate adequate understanding of the phenomenon studied.
