TY - JOUR T1 - Families may benefit from spiritual care in acute settings when loved ones are coming to the end of their lives JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2020-103279 SP - ebnurs-2020-103279 AU - Paul Boland AU - Zoe Geddes AU - James Hill Y1 - 2020/08/27 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/early/2020/08/27/ebnurs-2020-103279.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Hennessy N, Neenan K, Brady V, et al. End of life in acute hospital setting—A systematic review of families' experience of spiritual care. J Clin Nurs 2020;29:1041–52.Communication, collaboration and facilitation are essential when providing good spiritual care.Future research should focus on barriers and facilitators of spiritual care within the acute hospital setting.Over half of the deaths in the UK occur in acute hospital settings.1 However, compared with palliative care in hospices and palliative care settings, evidence for end-of-life care in the acute hospital setting is less consistent and developed,2 with the majority of this research focusing on the experiences of patients and healthcare providers3 rather than from a families’ perspective. Therefore, this review sought to examine families’ experiences of spiritual care at the end of life in the acute hospital setting.3This qualitative systematic … ER -