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People with severe mental illness are dying up to thirty years earlier than the general population. The limited literature on their experience of dying indicates that they often suffer from inequities in their access to healthcare services, and further, what care they do receive is frequently poor. Living with both a mental illness and facing death can engender spiritual concerns and dying at a younger age is a risk factor for spiritual despair. Hence, addressing spiritual concerns can be an important dimension of mental health nursing care. The aim of this ethnographic study of 11 senior and experienced mental health nurses was to determine if the culture of the mental health service impacted their spiritual care for those patients who were facing death. The data highlighted that the nurses felt comfortable in providing spiritual care when the person was suffering from psychosis. Yet, the results also revealed that nurses felt disempowered by the dominance of the biomedical culture, in which they felt unable to articulate their care. However, it was identified that their spiritual care was inherent within the professional values, knowledge, and skills of mental health nursing and framed through their therapeutic relationships. Therefore, strategies need to be used by the organization to assist nurses to reclaim their power and assist the mental health service to further develop and engage in spiritual care practices.

Finding the Hidden Professional Culture of Mental Health Nursing—Spiritual Care for Individuals with a Co-morbid Life-Limiting Illness