Psycho-Spiritual Well-being Experiences of Nurse Educators: A Qualitative Study

This qualitative study was instituted in selected tertiary institutions in Quezon City using purposive sampling to explore the factors that significantly affect the Nurse educators’ psychological and spiritual well-being and to determine the source of their psycho-spiritual strength. Contemporary literature provides minimal results on the state of spiritual well-being of nurse educators in the academic setting while considerable amounts of research were published in relation to psychological health. The current data was examined in detail using Collaizi’s (1978) descriptive - phenomenological method. The interview provided an in-depth introspection of psycho-spiritual well-being of Nurse educators from the assumptions of Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring and the concept of Ecstasy according to Fernando Rielo, illustrating the harmonious integration of mind, body, spirit, values. This study demonstrates that the participants experienced psycho-spiritual well-being not as the absence of stress, suffering, or professional challenges but as the capacity to respond to life's inevitable adversities through resilient faith, reflective self-awareness, compassionate service, and purposeful meaning-making. Future studies invite exploring a wider scale of Nurse educators using a different lens from another nursing theory. As the time to conduct this paper is limited, future researchers must invest more time and effort for more profound results. The finding suggests integration of holistic human development alongside scientific knowledge and technical competence in the nursing curricula, reviewing staffing adequacy, and clinical supervision responsibilities, promoting psychologically safe environments and giving psycho-spiritual formation, reflective practice, ethical leadership, and authentic caring.