Postmodernity and the new age have challenged traditional views of religion and its role in society by questioning the basis of ethics. Within healthcare, there has been a greater focus on spirituality as part of treatment, especially in nursing. Professional nursing codes recommend that nurses conduct comprehensive spiritual assessments of patients' physiological, social, and spiritual needs. However, approaches to spiritual care vary greatly in practice due to a lack of clear aims and objectives in healthcare training regarding different professions working together on spiritual issues.

1. Discussion: Postmodernity and the new age
Discussion: Postmodernity and the new ageDiscussion: Postmodernity and the new
ageAccording to research the postmodernity and the new age have raised questions about
the nature of religion and challenged its place in society, further querying should be the
basis of ethics. Meanwhile, within health care, there has been an increased focus on
spirituality as part of the therapeutic response, especially in the nursing profession. This
concern for spiritual care has also driven through several professional codes or educational
recommendations. In nursing, there is a recommendation in one of its systems that nurses
should be able to attempt and document a comprehensive, systematic, and accurate nursing
assessment of the physiological, social, and spiritual needs of patients. Perhaps not
surprising that in nursing, the actual practice of spiritual care is very variable (Oldnall
1996). The very different approaches and the lack of clear direction about the nature of
spirituality also reveal a lack of clear aims and objectives in health -care training, and
difficulty in determining how the different professions might work together around this
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