Transforming Chaplaincy Co-Director George Fitchett was awarded the Rush University College of Health Sciences (CHS) 2018 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship. Conferring the [...]
Development of a tool to identify and assess psychosocial and spiritual needs in end-of-life patients: The ENP-E scale
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Objective: The goal of this study is to describe the development of a new tool, the Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs Evaluation scale Instrumento de Evaluación de Necesidades Psicosociales y [...]
GPs and spiritual care: signed up or souled out? A quantitative analysis of GP trainers’ understanding and application of the concept of spirituality
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GPs have a wide range of attitudes to spirituality which contribute to variations in reported spiritual care. Study aims were: to assess concepts of spirituality and their application in a sample [...]
BACKGROUND: Palliative care (PC) programs utilize chaplains to address patients’ spiritual care needs; however, there is no comprehensive description of chaplaincy in PC programs [...]
Purpose: To determine whether hospice use by patients with cancer is associated with their families’ perceptions of patients’ symptoms, goal attainment, and quality of end-of-life (EOL) care. [...]
CONTEXT: Many clinical disciplines report high rates of burnout, which lead to low quality of care. Palliative care clinicians routinely manage patients with significant suffering, aiming to [...]
An exploration of specialist palliative care nurses’ experiences of providing care to hospice inpatients from minority ethnic groups – implication for religious and spiritual care
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The aim of this research study was to gain an understanding of nurses’ experiences of providing care to patients from minority ethnic groups within the specialist palliative care inpatient unit [...]
Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a classic grounded theory of patients in palliative care. Methods: A classic Grounded Theory methodology was used to conceptualize patterns of [...]
A knowledge synthesis of culturally- and spiritually-sensitive end-of-life care: findings from a scoping review
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BACKGROUND: Multiple factors influence the end-of-life (EoL) care and experience of poor quality services by culturally- and spiritually-diverse groups. Access to EoL services e.g. health and [...]
Spiritual beliefs, practices, and needs at the end of life: Results from a New Zealand national hospice study
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OBJECTIVE: International studies have shown that patients want their spiritual needs attended to at the end of life. The present authors developed a project to investigate people’s [...]