September, 2018 | Transforming Chaplaincy

Lectio Divina: A Preliminary Evaluation of a Chaplaincy Program

September 30, 2018 education

This participant outcome evaluation serves as a preliminary investigation into the effects of lectio divina, a chaplaincy service representing a form of focused Scripture reading. A sample of [...]
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A 10-Year Longitudinal Study of Effects of a Multifaceted Residency Spiritual Care Curriculum: Clinical Ability, Professional Formation, End of LIfe, and Culture

September 30, 2018 education

CONTEXT: Although spiritual care (SC) is recognized as important in whole-person medicine, physicians infrequently address patients’ spiritual needs, citing lack of training. Although many [...]
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Prevalence of and factors related to discordance about prognosis between physicians and surrogate decision makers and critically ill patients

September 30, 2018 critical care, ICU

IMPORTANCE: Misperceptions about prognosis by individuals making decisions for incapacitated critically ill patients (surrogates) are common and often attributed to poor comprehension of medical [...]
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Experiences and Expressions of Spirituality at the End of Life in the Intensive Care Unit

September 30, 2018 critical care, ICU

RATIONALE: The austere setting of the intensive care unit (ICU) can suppress expressions of spirituality. OBJECTIVES: To describe how family members and clinicians experience and [...]
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Spiritual care: the nurses’ experiences in the pediatric intensive care unit

September 30, 2018 critical care, ICU

Physical aspects of disease management are often more evident than those related to spirituality or spiritual care. Spirituality may appear more crucial in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) [...]
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Lectio Divina: A Preliminary Evaluation of a Chaplaincy Program

A 10-Year Longitudinal Study of Effects of a Multifaceted Residency Spiritual Care Curriculum: Clinical Ability, Professional Formation, End of LIfe, and Culture

Prevalence of and factors related to discordance about prognosis between physicians and surrogate decision makers and critically ill patients

Experiences and Expressions of Spirituality at the End of Life in the Intensive Care Unit

Spiritual care: the nurses’ experiences in the pediatric intensive care unit