Abstract

Spirituality, a highly complex concept, was a very controversial subject. Since the human being served as a spiritual being, spirituality was present in all levels of care. The authors conducted a concept analysis using Walker and Avant’s methodology to analyze the concept of spirituality to allow the reader to understand better how spirituality affected the advance practice nurse (APN). The authors’ extensive dictionary search and literature review of spirituality led to recurring and defining attributes, antecedents, and consequences. The attributes of spirituality included a human being, belief, enlightenment, and a decision. The antecedents of spirituality were a higher being, self-reflection, spiritual awareness, and desire. The consequences of spirituality were a higher level of care, resilience, transcendence, openmindedness, burnout, and persecution. A model, a borderline, and a contrary case demonstrated the influence of spirituality for the APN. The authors discussed spirituality’s impact on advanced practice nursing and created a model for the concept of spirituality.