March, 2019 | Transforming Chaplaincy

Predatory Open-Access Publishing in Palliative and Supportive Care

March 17, 2019 palliative care

Predatory publishing is commonly defined as an exploitative, fraudulent, open-access model that applies charges to authors without providing proper editorial services, characteristic of [...]
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Spiritual Care at the Bedside: Are We Practicing What We Preach?

March 17, 2019 nursing

Little is known about how nurses’ personal spirituality and religious (S/R) beliefs impact their spiritual care of patients. An online survey was used to collect data from 445 nurses, [...]
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Spirituality, health and well-being in the elderly

March 17, 2019 geriatrics

Bailly et al. (2018) examined the trajectory of spirituality in a cohort of 567 non-institutionalized older adults living in Tours, France, during a period of five years. The measurements for [...]
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A Preliminary Study Examining the Prevalence and Perceived Intensity of Morally Injurious Events in a Veterans Affairs Chaplaincy Spiritual Injury Support Group

March 17, 2019 veterans' affairs

The aim of this descriptive study was to examine the prevalence and perceived intensity of potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) in a group of VA chaplaincy service users. A secondary aim [...]
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Nurses’ Perspectives on Spiritual Caregiving: Tending to the Sacred

March 17, 2019 nursing

This qualitative secondary analysis explored the narratives of 14 nurses from various practice settings. Data analysis identified that although nurses share responsibility for spiritual [...]
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