Prospective, qualitative study SETTING: University-affiliated children’s hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Thirty-three parents of 26 children who died in the pediatric intensive care unit between [...]
The Spiritual Needs of Parents at the Time of Their Child’s Death in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and During Bereavement: A Qualitative Study
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OBJECTIVE: Death is common in pediatric intensive care units. A child’s death can shatter parents’ personal identities, disrupt their relationships, and challenge their worldviews. [...]
Background: Chaplain services are available in 68% of hospitals, but hospital chaplains are not yet incorporated into routine patient care. Objectives: To describe how families of hospitalized [...]
Spiritual care has been recognized as integral to nursing care for centuries, as described by Florence Nightingale, and has been studied in both medicine and sociology. Health care institutions, [...]
Exploring the phenomenon of spiritual care between hospital chaplains and hospital based healthcare providers
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Hospital chaplaincy and spiritual care services are important to patients’ medical care and well-being; however, little is known about healthcare providers’ experiences receiving [...]
A growing body of research documents the harmful effects of religious or spiritual struggle among patients with a wide variety of diagnoses. We developed a brief screening protocol for use in [...]
The spiritual distress assessment tool: an instrument to assess spiritual distress in hospitalised elderly persons
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BACKGROUND: Although spirituality is usually considered a positive resource for coping with illness, spiritual distress may have a negative influence on health outcomes. Tools are needed to [...]
Reports on a research project that describes the unique activities in which chaplains engage as they provide pastoral care and counseling and spiritual direction to patients in a large, acute [...]
The Patient is Dying, Please Call the Chaplain’: The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center’s Intensive Care Units
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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 [...]
What we know already. The Lothian PROM has shown us that chaplaincy benefitted all in this sample not just the faithful, religious or spiritual. However, this deduction arose from statistical [...]