en Original/Research Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>Introduction:</strong> Spiritual care by nurses is often linked to palliative and terminal care. It is hardly known whether SC is also considered vital among nurses who care for patients who are treated with curative intent. Therefore, we have explored the level of and the experiences with spiritual care by nurses in curative cancer care.<br> <strong>Methods:</strong> In this mixed-method study, nurses were recruited in eight hospitals in the Netherlands. A spirituality scale, a spiritual care competence scale and five questions on spiritual care were completed by 57 participants. Afterwards, the scores were quantitatively analyzed. Because of data saturation, qualitative analysis was limited to 31 semi-structured interviews, using content analysis.<br> <strong>Results: </strong>The great majority of nurses indicated on the questionnaire that they frequently provide spiritual care. However, in interviews, the nurses described few examples of spiritual care. Nurses also indicated that they had not learned so much in providing spiritual care in their educational program; rather, they had learned it in clinical practice.<br> <strong>Conclusions:</strong> As the questionnaire could be liable to socially desirable responding, we based our conclusions on the qualitative data, and concluded that spiritual care was rather modest among the nurses providing curative care in this study.</span></span></div> Qualitative Evaluation, Medical Oncology, Nursing, Spirituality 1 12 http://mcijournal.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-560-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Bert Garssen Garssen b.garssen@ziggo.nl 10031947532846003447 10031947532846003447 Yes Helen Dowling Institute, Centre for Psycho-Oncology, Bilthoven, the Netherlands & Department Health Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands Anne Ebenau 10031947532846003448 10031947532846003448 No Helen Dowling Institute, Centre for Psycho-Oncology, Bilthoven, the Netherlands & Department of Anesthesiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Marieke Groot 10031947532846003449 10031947532846003449 No Helen Dowling Institute, Centre for Psycho-Oncology, Bilthoven, the Netherlands & Department of Anesthesiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Hanneke Van Laarhoven 10031947532846003450 10031947532846003450 No Department of Medical Oncology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands René Van Leeuwen 10031947532846003451 10031947532846003451 No Department of Health Care, Christian University of Applied Sciences, Viaa, Zwolle, the Netherlands Anja Visser Visser 10031947532846003452 10031947532846003452 No Helen Dowling Institute, Centre for Psycho-Oncology, Bilthoven, the Netherlands & Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands