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Defining Spiritual Care: An Exploratory Study

Primary Author: Leonard Hummel, The Luthern Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Report of a literature review looking at definitions and categories of spiritual care. The authors found that most of the interventions could be grouped into several general categories and "only a few of these categories encompass explicitly religious or spiritual interventions." They also found that "there is common
ground among nurses and chaplains about what constitutes spiritual care and what that care entails."

This article was published in the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, volume 15 on pages 40-51.

Date Last Modified 01/01/2008 Article

Addressing Patients Emotional and Spiritual Needs

Primary Author: Paul Alexander Clark, Press Ganey Associates

This article from the December 2003 issue of the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety (Volume 29 Number 12) is the result of a literature review and original research to ascertain whether patients emotional and spiritual needs are important, whether hospitals are effective in addressing these needs, and what strategies should guide improvement.

The study found "a strong relationship between the degree to which staff addressed emotional/spiritual needs and overall patient satisfaction" and the authors conclude that "the emotional and spiritual experience of hospitalization remains a prime opportunity for QI" (Quality Improvement).

Date Last Modified 12/01/2003 Article

Dying, Dignity, and New Horizons in Palliative End-of-Life Care

Primary Author: Harvey Max Chochinov, University of Manitoba

Article from CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (volume 56). Dr. Chochinov provides a brief overview of psychiatric challenges in end-of-life care, a discussion of spiritual or existential suffering toward the end of life, a model of dignity, and practical examples of diagnostic questions and therapeutic interventions to preserve dignity.

Date Last Modified 03/01/2006 Article

Spirituality and the Cognitively Impaired

Primary Author: Kathy Fogg Berry, Masonic Home of Virginia

Article in the Age in Action newsletter from the Virginia Center on Aging and the Virginia Department for the Aging. This article:

- Discusses the need to acknowledge and nurture the spirituality of older adults with cognitive impairment
- Provides tools and suggestions for nurturing the spirituality of older adults with cognitive impairment
- Provides a case example of one resident with cognitive impairment to spiritually-based programming and support

Date Last Modified 01/01/2005 Article, Case example/study

Compassionate Healthcare Systems

Primary Author: Christina M. Puchalski, George Washington University Medical Center

Recording of a talk given at Harvard Medical School's Spirituality and Healing in Medicine Conference in December 2008 (1 hour).

Date Last Modified 12/01/2008 Audio file (MP3, etc.), Lecture presentation