Resumen:
This research is directed toward comprehending the influence of spirituality in the nursing care in the pre-operative sector of the Municipal Hospital of Santarém (HMS), in the city of Santarém, PA. It is a qualitative research about the perception of the spirituality and the caregiving of the nurses in the pre-operative phase of the patients. It deals with the difficulties encountered by the nurses in the organization and implementation of its practice inside the Hospital, specifically in the surgical center which is a complex Hospital Unit with restricted access. It also deals with aspects which influence the conduct of the professionals, their formation and other actors inserted in the dimension of spirituality, which involved understanding the human being as a whole being. The analyses of the applied questionnaires reveal the importance of spirituality to obtain wholistic health of the patient, corroborating with the concept of health proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO), which advocates the complete bio-psycho-social-environmental-spiritual well-being of the human being. It was observed that the professional nursing program does not provide knowledge related to the issue of the importance of this dimension, since its academic formation has dimensions related to spirituality but of a more scientific characteristic and less humanist. However, we observed that the people interviewed relate the importance of spirituality in the conduct of the treatment confronted with the patient in a surgical process and that the spiritual issues are relevant from the point of view of caregiving. We concluded that the personal beliefs, adopted by the nurses, show the real impact of spirituality on health, and could perceive the great interest on the part of the professionals in the health area, considering it to be of great importance that these be prepared, so that they can understand the meaning of spirituality for the individual and be able to deal with the surgical center.
