Introduction: An important part of every human being is spirituality, whether people are aware of it or not. Spirituality represents our search for meaning in the life we live; it represents the desire to fulfill our potentials, to become a “better person”. This desire is still present in nurses today, just as it was in the past. Spirituality can have a significant impact on resolving stressful situations related to work or personal life. It also enables better psychophysical health and easier acceptance of events that happen to every person in life, and more often those who dedicate their careers to caring for people. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to present how spirituality affects nursing students, how it can affect coping with stress, and how students experience their own spirituality today. We want to emphasize why spirituality is important to them in both their future profession and personal life, especially at a time when we are facing with overburdened nurses and staff shortages, as well as epidemiological measures and distance education. Methods: We used a descriptive method of research work. A review of the scientific literature in the field of spirituality related to nursing and nursing students from 2014 onwards was made. The literature was searched in databases: Medline, Science Direct, CINAHL, Research Gate (with server: NCBI) and the Pubmed search engine and the DiKul web portal, in the period from December 2020 to April 2021. The literature was searched in English and in Slovene with the help of key phrases: nursing students AND spirituality, spiritual well-being AND nursing student, religion AND nursing student, nursing AND spirituality, nursing AND spirituality, nursing students AND spirituality. The professional literature was also searched with the help of reference lists of the articles included in the analysis. We included 15 articles in the analysis. The articles were evaluated on a seven-point scale according to the strength of the evidence. Results: Students experience themselves as spiritual persons to some extent, but find it more difficult to describe and define. Because they do not know well their own spirituality and its dimensions, the latter cannot integrate it into practice or they cannot use the potential that spirituality gives them. It is necessary to draw attention to the fact that spirituality is not sufficiently represented in the curricula of educational institutions or that the way of teaching about spirituality is inappropriate and useless. Discussion and conclusion: It seems that people are aware of this problem, but do not take active action on it. Certain people feel that they are not spiritual persons because they have not thought about it yet. Even social trends and materialism are at odds with the search for meaning and spirituality. Not only students but also high school students should be taught about spirituality, especially in secondary medical schools, as they, like students, encounter work in practice, death, and questions about the meaning of life that other young people begin to ask later. It is also easier for young people to learn relaxation techniques before they need them, rather than just starting to learn them.
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