Calhermeneutical technique for interpreting interview text, due to the fact the aim in the approach was to disclose the which means of nurses’ knowledge of residents’ spiritual demands [44]. The strategy of evaluation was inspired by Ricoeur’s philosophy [45]. Interpretations of your text consist of a dialectic movement in between understanding the entire text and parts from the text, which is consistent using the hermeneutic system [46]. This closeness and distance from the text implies interpreting the text in terms of reading the text for what it says and further understanding what the text suggests. The evaluation followed three steps: na e reading, structural analysis and formulation of a extensive understanding.Na e reading (initial reading)Data had been collected from June 2011 to January 2012. A minimum of one interview was performed at every single of your 4 institutions, in addition to a follow-up interview was conducted. Analysis shows that recurrent information dialogue within a specific group may possibly boost the understanding of a theme [40,41]. By way of obtaining a follow-up interview, we wanted to receive the participants’ reflections immediately after the initial interview and deepen a few of the subjects that the nurses discussed within the first interview [40]. The exact same moderator (initially author) and observer (second author) conducted all eight interviews that have been positioned in the nursing houses, lasted 1 ?- two hours and recordedThe text was read various occasions to grasp the meaning as a entire. Throughout the reading, we attempted to concentrate on the nurses’ lived experiences as they reflected around the residents spiritual and existential expressions. Na e reading was discussed amongst the researchers and additional guided the thematic structural analysis.Structural analysisAll 4 researchers carried out information coding. Initial, the text was divided into meaning units. We reflected around the meaning units based on the background of PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20425085 the na e understanding and after that condensed the units to reflect the crucial which means. We read by means of all of the condensed meaning units and reflected on their similarities and variations. Sub-HTHQ themes have been then produced, which had been assembled to themes and main themes. We further reflected around 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 4 ofif we discovered a discrepancy in between the na e understanding and themes, the structural analysis procedure was repeated until there was compliance.Extensive understandingWe reflected around the themes and sub-themes in relation to our pre-understanding, research query, plus the context of your study, in which we sought a comprehensive understanding. The credibility from the findings was assessed in the process of coding, in that we chosen important sections in the participants’ statements and identified explicit themes. We sought to safeguard transparency and trustworthiness via quotations from different participations in the presentation on the findings. During the entire method, we attempted to assess consistency in between the data presented and also the study findings, like each main and minor themes. By comparing themes towards the naive reading, we strengthened the validity with the analysis.Ethical considerationsreligious activities, for example prayer and singing hymns. Moreover, they observed that residents wanted to connect to them on a private level. The nurses described residents’ previous interests, for example nature experiences, culture and traditions as spiritual needs, as.