Calhermeneutical technique for interpreting interview text, for the reason that the aim in the method was to disclose the meaning of nurses’ expertise of residents’ spiritual demands [44]. The approach of evaluation was inspired by Ricoeur’s philosophy [45]. Interpretations in the text consist of a dialectic movement involving understanding the entire text and components in the text, which can be constant using the hermeneutic system [46]. This closeness and distance of your text implies interpreting the text when it comes to reading the text for what it says and additional understanding what the text suggests. The analysis followed three measures: na e reading, structural evaluation and formulation of a comprehensive understanding.Na e reading (initial reading)Information were collected from June 2011 to January 2012. At the very least one interview was performed at every with the 4 institutions, plus a follow-up interview was performed. Analysis shows that recurrent expertise dialogue in a certain group may increase the understanding of a theme [40,41]. Through getting a follow-up interview, we wanted to acquire the participants’ reflections soon after the initial interview and deepen some of the topics that the nurses discussed in the very first interview [40]. Exactly the same moderator (initially author) and observer (second author) conducted all eight interviews that had been positioned in the nursing homes, lasted 1 ?- 2 hours and recordedThe text was study various instances to grasp the which means as a complete. Throughout the reading, we tried to concentrate on the nurses’ lived experiences as they reflected on the Echinocystic acid residents spiritual and existential expressions. Na e reading was discussed among the researchers and further guided the thematic structural evaluation.Structural analysisAll 4 researchers carried out information coding. First, the text was divided into meaning units. We reflected on the meaning units primarily based around the background of PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20425085 the na e understanding and then condensed the units to reflect the vital which means. We study through all the condensed which means units and reflected on their similarities and variations. Sub-themes had been then made, which were assembled to themes and primary themes. We additional reflected on the themes in relation for the na e understanding, andbehr et al. BMC Nursing 2014, 13:12 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6955/13/Page four ofif we found a discrepancy between the na e understanding and themes, the structural evaluation course of action was repeated till there was compliance.Comprehensive understandingWe reflected on the themes and sub-themes in relation to our pre-understanding, study query, and also the context from the study, in which we sought a comprehensive understanding. The credibility in the findings was assessed within the course of action of coding, in that we selected significant sections from the participants’ statements and identified explicit themes. We sought to safeguard transparency and trustworthiness by way of quotations from diverse participations in the presentation from the findings. Through the entire procedure, we attempted to assess consistency among the data presented plus the study findings, including both major and minor themes. By comparing themes to the naive reading, we strengthened the validity on the evaluation.Ethical considerationsreligious activities, which include prayer and singing hymns. Moreover, they observed that residents wanted to connect to them on a private level. The nurses described residents’ earlier interests, such as nature experiences, culture and traditions as spiritual needs, as.