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Purpose: The study is aimed at studying pediatric nurses’ emotional needs and their views on spiritual and spiritual care. Method and method: The sample of the study consisted of 280 pediatric nurses working in the center of the province of Konya. The data is collected by the sociodemographic form of knowledge, the scale of emotional need, the scale of spirituality and the scale of spiritual care. The data has been analyzed by average, standard deviation, percentage, multi-regression, pearson correlation. Results: 80% of nurses are women, 58.2% are married and 61.7% are graduates. The scale of spirituality and spiritual care is 3.69±0.67 and the scale of emotional need is 16.16±19.15. The average score of nurses who expressed their positive approach to emotional events when examined (p<0,001), who thought children and families needed mental care (p<0.05), who had more than 5 years of experience (p<0.05), who were female (p<0.05), and who had graduated (p<0.05), found the score significantly higher than others. It has been determined that there is a meaningful relationship in medium strength in the positive direction between the two scale points of nurses (p<0,05). Result: In particular, single and male nurses with no children, newly begun the profession, all pediatric nurses may be advised to acquire the knowledge and skills to meet the spiritual and emotional needs of their children and families.

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