en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Background:</strong> Spirituality is an important dimension of human existence with a crucial role in health promotion. This study aimed to investigate nurses&rsquo; attitudes towards spiritual care and its practice.<br> <strong>Methods:</strong> It was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The relevant data were collected by Nursing Spiritual Care Perspective Scale (NSCPS). In this study, 166 nurses working in hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences were selected by proportional stratified randomized sampling method. The obtained data were analysed by descriptive statistics, including frequency, mean, and standard deviation, using SPSS V. 16.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Results:</strong> The Mean&plusmn;SD score of nurses&rsquo; attitudes towards spiritual practice was 3.67&plusmn;0.51. The mean score of responses to 9 out of 11 items was above 3 indicating high range of attitude toward providing spiritual care. The Mean&plusmn;SD score of nurses&rsquo; spiritual practice was 1.93&plusmn;0.48. The mean score of the responses to 3 out of 12 items was above 2 indicating the nurses&rsquo; weak ability to provide spiritual care.<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Despite nurses&rsquo; positive attitudes towards providing spiritual care, they have provided insufficient spiritual care interventions. Thus, appropriate approach for teaching spiritual merits and increasing nurses&rsquo; abilities for providing spiritual care seems necessary.</div> Attitude, Spiritual care, Spiritual practice, Nurse 61 68 http://jccnc.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-93-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Marhamat Farahaninia mary_f2008@yah00.ca 10031947532846006492 10031947532846006492 Yes Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mojgan Abasi mozhgan_abasi@yahoo.com 10031947532846006493 10031947532846006493 No Emam Sajjad Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Shahriar, Tehran, Iran. Naimeh Seyedfatemi nseyedfatemi@yahoo.com 10031947532846006494 10031947532846006494 No Nursing Care Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Ezzat JafarJalal ejalal2005@yahoo.com 10031947532846006495 10031947532846006495 No Department of Nursing Management, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Hamid Haghani haghani511@yahoo.com 10031947532846006496 10031947532846006496 No Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.