Integrating Spiritual Care into Palliative Consultation: A Case Study in Expanded Practice

Recognizing and addressing spiritual needs has long been identified as a key component of palliative care (PC). More often than not, the provision of spiritual care involves referral to a hospital chaplain. In this study, we aim to describe the role of a PC chaplain embedded within the interdiscipli...

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Main Author: Kearney, Grace (Author)
Contributors: Fischer, Linda ; Groninger, Hunter
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2017]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 6, Pages: 2308-2316
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Summary:Recognizing and addressing spiritual needs has long been identified as a key component of palliative care (PC). More often than not, the provision of spiritual care involves referral to a hospital chaplain. In this study, we aim to describe the role of a PC chaplain embedded within the interdisciplinary PC team and demonstrate how this palliative chaplain role differs from that of a traditional hospital chaplain. We postulate that integrating spiritual care provision into a PC team may offer a broader spiritual care experience for patients receiving PC and begin to delineate expanded clinical roles for the palliative chaplain.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-017-0419-8