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A multidisciplinary training program for spiritual care in palliative care

Primary Author: Palliative Care Australia

Complete curriculum materials for trainers including, instructor's guide, slide presentations, videos, vignettes, and handouts.

Requires registration with a free account to access.

Date Last Modified 12/31/2007 Course curriculum

Spiritual Care & Emotional Support in Healthcare: Physician's Manual

Primary Author: Mark Reeves, UCSD Medical Center

This physician manual, created by a winner of the GWish Spirituality and Medicine Curricular and Residency Training Program Award, contains much information specific to the UCSD Medical Center but can serve as a model for others.

Date Last Modified 12/31/2008 Manual/guide

The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life, and Grief

Primary Author: James L Brooks, Duke University

The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life, and Grief is a new resource filled with practical tools and guidance to help congregations care for people facing illness, dying and bereavement. Developed by the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life and written by Rev. James L. Brooks, it provides clergy, lay leaders, parish nurses and chaplains with an inspiring vision, easy-to-use tools, specific tips, and hundreds of additional resources.

The Toolkit starts with a call to action and provides templates for congregations to plan a discussion of these issues. It also includes guidelines for support groups, information on how to offer spiritual support to families, and outlines for educational programs and liturgical services. The Toolkit is designed to be in sync with the self-organization of congregations, including organizing illness, death, and grief information specifically geared towards adult and child education, congregational care, and worship, facility, and clergy leadership.

Published in the summer of 2009, The Unbroken Circle has been embraced by congregationally-based clergy and nurses, chaplains in health care settings, educators in seminaries and clinical pastoral education programs, and students interested in spiritual dimensions of caring for those with advanced illness.

Date Last Modified 03/31/2009 Manual/guide, Book, On-the-job tool

Spiritual Distress in Patients: A Guideline for Health Care Providers

Primary Author: John Ehman, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Printable chart showing observable indicators of spiritual distress and example inviting questions. Indicators are based upon, but not confined to, the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association diagnosis of Spiritual Distress.

Date Last Modified 06/22/2006 On-the-job tool

Spiritual and Cultural Aspects of Palliative Care and The Interdisciplinary Team

Primary Author: Yale School of Medicine

Case 2 of the Yale Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Educational Program is an interactive computer-based clinical case of a woman with metastatic breast cancer. The objectives are for students to:

- Understand the basic precepts and goals of Palliative Care.
- Recognize common misconceptions about opioids (pain medication).
- Identify the importance of addressing the spiritual and cultural needs of a patient with terminal illness and understand how to get these needs met.
- Understand the clinical features of imminent death and how to help the patient and family during this time.
- Recognize the contributions of all health care professionals and understand the importance of the interdisciplinary team in the care of the patient with terminal illness.

Students are asked to reflect on aspects of the case.

Note: The module is accessible to anyone, but you will need to respond to five brief demographic questions.

Date Last Modified 12/31/2008 Tutorial, Case example/study, Standardized Patient Case