BACKGROUND: Spiritual care is defined as recognizing and responding to the needs of the human spirit when the individual is facing trauma, illness, or sadness. Providing spiritual care is one of [...]
Background: One of the components of a healthy life is attending to spiritual needs, which can reduce harmful behaviors. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between [...]
AIMS: Patients with HF often have underrecognized symptoms, depression, anxiety and poorer spiritual well-being (“QoL domains”). Ideally all patients should have HF-specific health [...]
The aim of this study was to identify research priorities for health care chaplaincy in The Netherlands according to practicing chaplains and chaplaincy leaders. To this end, a two-round Delphi [...]
Objective: Previous research indicates that 9-1-1 response to incidents involving children is particularly distressing for emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians. This qualitative study was [...]
Via ACPE: The Pacific Community of Practice is excited to invite all Certified Educator Candidates, those both in the “old” and “new” process, to participate in a unique educational opportunity. [...]
Our colleague Martin Walton, PThU, Netherlands writes on the recent conference of the Dutch Case Studies Project: The “Universitaire Centrum Geestelijke Verzorging” (UCGV) in the Netherlands is a [...]
Transforming Chaplaincy Fellow Paul Galchutt has been very active in Minnesota spiritual care: Paul will be a co-presenter at the Minnesota Hospice and Palliative Care Conference on Monday, April [...]
Update April 4: details now available. On May 31, the Mount Sinai Center for Spirituality and Health will host the symposium “Cultivating and Sustaining Compassion in the Practice of Health [...]
Spirituality and spiritual care play a crucial role in providing more effective treatment for patients. The purpose of this study was to determine nurses’ attitudes toward spirituality and [...]