Spirituality in Palliative Care: An imperative nursing care

The increase in average life expectancy has led to a greater prevalence of chronic and degenerative diseases, making it urgent to change the paradigm of care. Assuming the inevitability of the end of life, it is essential that we start to look at the multidimensionality of the person with an incurable and/or serious, progressive and advanced illness, focusing on promoting comfort, well-being and quality of life. It is in this context that Palliative Care (PC) emerges, with the aim of improving the quality of life of people in a palliative situation and their families, considering them as biopsychosocial and spiritual beings.When a person is faced with a diagnosis with no prospect of a cure, spiritual suffering can emerge, due to the loss of meaning in life, which is why the approach to spirituality in PC is of great importance. However, intervention in the dimension of spirituality by health professionals, particularly nurses in PC, is still far from what is desired.