All Things to all People? The Integrity of Spiritual Care in a Plural Health Service

MacLaren, Duncan

doi:10.1558/hscc.40568

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“…This perhaps suggests the importance of developing a professional identity that includes collaboration with other healthcare professionals, including the need to define the specific knowledge and skills of healthcare chaplains (Jacobs et al, 2021; Kruizinga et al, 2016). Redefining the professional identity for healthcare chaplains is thought to be rooted to how important chaplains place value on their worldview and having “spiritual competence” (MacLaren, 2020; Napel-Roos et al, 2021). Despite the present pandemic situation, along with the processes of deinstitutionalization, secularization, and pluralization providing challenges to the chaplains’ professional identity, studies have shown that chaplaincy has the ability to evolve and reinvent itself over time (Nolan and MacLaren, 2021).…”

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Exploring the Perceptions Surrounding Hospital Chaplains in Patient Care and Healing

Riaz

Shaikh

et al. 2022

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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The authors distributed a questionnaire to various hospital staff to explore perceptions surrounding the role of chaplains in patient care and healing through assessing opinions, beliefs, and knowledge. Results revealed a poor understanding of the role of the hospital chaplain in the UK. The authors therefore advocate education programs to increase awareness of the varied role of the hospital chaplain in fulfilling patient spiritual needs to increase referral practices, leading to improved patient outcomes.

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