Spiritual Care in Common Terms
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Spiritual Care in Common Terms

How Chaplains Can Effectively Describe the Spiritual Needs of Patients in Medical Records

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Spiritual Care in Common Terms

How Chaplains Can Effectively Describe the Spiritual Needs of Patients in Medical Records

About this book

Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.

This book describes the art of charting patients' spiritual perspectives in an open way that will help physicians and nurses to better direct medical care. It includes practical information on how to distil spiritual needs into pragmatic language, helping to demystify spiritual experience. Drawing on his extensive practical experience, the author also suggests key points to emphasise that will enrich chart notes for medical records, including brief, relative narratives, trusting one's own impressions, reflecting holistically on the patient's life, patient attitudes towards treatment and recovery, and describing families' opinions on the health care situation of their loved one. The book shows healthcare professionals of all disciplines how to engage in a shared responsibility for the spiritual care of their patients.

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Yes, you can access Spiritual Care in Common Terms by Gordon J. Hilsman, D.Min in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Caregiving. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781785927249
eBook ISBN
9781784503697
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Caregiving

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword by James H. Gunn
  5. Preface
  6. 1 Why Record the Intangible in Healthcare Culture?
  7. 2 Theory: A Humanist View of Spirituality: Universal Sources of Patient Stories
  8. 3 Content: Twenty-Two Spiritual Needs Common among Hospitalized People and Their Goals of Care
  9. 4 Format: A Shape for an Elegant Chart Note
  10. 5 Process: Extracting the Relevant
  11. 6 Outcomes: A Phenomenological Approach
  12. Epilogue: Becoming and Remaining a Spiritual Clinician
  13. Appendix: The Use of Chaplain Chart Notes by Interdisciplinary Team Members at a Leading US Hospital
  14. References
  15. Index
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Dedication
  18. Copyright
  19. Of Related Interest
  20. Endorsements