Context: Goals-of-care discussions are associated with improved end-of-life care for patients and therefore may be used as a process measure in quality improvement, research, and reimbursement [...]
OBJECTIVE: to correlate spirituality and religiosity with quality of life of adolescents with and without cleft lip and palate. METHODS: cross-sectional and correlational study involving two [...]
Occupational therapy practitioners consider spirituality to be significant in affecting the process and outcome of occupational therapy; however, many therapists voice confusion and concern about [...]
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To translate and validate the Nurse Spiritual Therapeutics Scale (NSTS) among cancer patients in Beijing, China. BACKGROUND: Spirituality is an essential and integrating [...]
This research focuses on the spiritual care experiences of patients and families at a hospital in Australia. Twenty-four patients and 10 family members were interviewed. Results indicate the [...]
It is well accepted that attention to spiritual concerns is a core dimension of palliative care. It is similarly well accepted that chaplains are the spiritual care specialists who should address [...]
Rush University highlights the work of George Fitchett, the dean of the healthcare chaplaincy research community and co-founder of Transforming Chaplaincy: Decades ago, Fitchett says, he would [...]
The Scottish PROM has been put to use in a new study. Our colleague Austyn Snowden, with others, published “‘What’s on your mind?’ The only necessary question in spiritual care” in [...]
The Journal of Palliative Care Medicine recently announced the most downloaded article from May 2017. Jane Jeuland, Transforming Chaplaincy Co-Director George Fitchett, Dena Schulman-Green, and [...]
Thank you to all who submitting applications for the Transforming Chaplaincy – APC Pilot / Consultation Grant program. We’re pleased to announce three recipient teams: (Pilot) Emilee [...]