Category Archive for: "ICU"

The patient is dying, please call the chaplain’: The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center’s Intensive Care Units

June 14, 2018 ICU

CONTEXT: Patients and families commonly experience spiritual stress during an intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Although most patients report that they want spiritual support, little is known [...]
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Religion, Spirituality, and the Intensive Care Unit: The Sound of Silence

June 14, 2018 ICU

Visualize for a moment the philosophical quandary of a tree falling in the uninhabited forest and whether it makes a sound—the dying tree, its surroundings of fellow trees, foliage, and [...]
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Matters of spirituality at the end of life in the pediatric intensive care unit

October 19, 2017 ICU, pediatric

OBJECTIVE: Our objective with this study was to identify the nature and the role of spiritualityfrom the parents’ perspective at the end of life in the PICU and to discern clinical [...]
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A novel picture guide to improve spiritual care and reduce anxiety in mechanically ventilated adults in the intensive care unit

October 5, 2017 adult, ICU, ICU, mental health

RATIONALE: Hospital chaplains provide spiritual care that helps patients facing serious illness cope with their symptoms and prognosis, yet because mechanically ventilated patients cannot speak, [...]
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Communicating Chaplains’ Care: Narrative Documentation in a Neuroscience-Spine Intensive Care Unit

October 5, 2017 ICU, ICU, Professionalization

Abstract: Chaplaincy care is different for every patient; a growing challenge is to ensure that electronic health records function to support personalized care. While ICU health care teams have [...]
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