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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

Policies and Tools for Hospital Palliative Care Programs: A Crosswalk of National Quality Forum Preferred Practices Primary Author: The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) This document provides a compilation of policies and tools to help palliative care programs meet the NQFs Preferred Practices. Page 59 contains a sample Spiritual Care Assessment form. Date Last Modified 12/31/2007 Report/Document/Book chapter, On-the-job tool

Spiritual Well-Being and Depression in Patients with Heart Failure Primary Author: David B. Bekelman, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Article from the Journal of General Internal Medicine (volume 22) describing a study of sixty elderly patients with class II-IV heart failure. The authors sought to "identify the relationship between spiritual well-being and depression in patients with heart failure" and found that "greater spiritual well-being...was strongly associated with less depression." Date Last Modified 02/06/2007 Article

A National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality Primary Author: The National Quality Forum This report details a framework for palliative and hospice care, intended to serve as a foundation for a quality measurement and reporting system. The report also discusses a set of preferred practices to improve palliative and hospice care. Spiritual, Religious, and Existential Aspects of Care comprise the 5th domain of palliative and hospice care in this report. The Executive Summary is available for free download from the page. The full report is free to NQF members and costs $29.99 for non-members. Date Last Modified 12/01/2006 Report/Document/Book chapter

Preferred Practices from the National Quality Forum (NQF) Consensus Report Primary Author: The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) A 3-page document listing all of the preferred practices from the National Quality Forum (NQF) Consensus Report: Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality. The Center to Advance Palliative Care created and distributed this document courtesy of the National Consensus Project. Spiritual assessment and spiritual care services are included in the preferred practices. Date Last Modified 12/01/2006 Report/Document/Book chapter