Pastoral Care Staffing and Productivity: More than Ratios

Wintz, Susan K; Handzo, George

doi:10.1080/10999183.2005.10767268

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“…This leaves hospitals greater hiring freedom for chaplaincy. While several articles have reported staffing ratios (VandeCreek, Siegel, Gorey, Brown, & Toperzer, 2001), there are no national chaplain-to-bed or chaplain-to-patient standards for healthcare organizations (Wintz & Handzo, 2005). Chaplains are also non-revenue producing further leading individual hospitals and systems to make local, at times idiosyncratic, decisions about how to staff and deploy them.…”

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What organizational and business models underlie the provision of spiritual care in healthcare organizations? An initial description and analysis

Antoine

Fitchett

Marin

et al. 2020

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy

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Two-thirds of American hospitals have chaplains. This article explores the organizational and business models that underlie how chaplains are integrated into hospitals. Based on interviews with 14 chaplain managers and the 11 healthcare executives to whom they report at 18 hospitals in 9 systems, we identify three central findings. First, there is significant variation in how spiritual care programs are staffed and integrated into their hospitals. Second, executives and chaplain managers see the value of chaplains in terms of their quality of care, reliability and responsivity to emergent patient and staff needs, and clinical training and experience working within a complex environment. Third, few departments rely on empirical data when making decisions about staffing, tending instead to default to the budgetary status quo. These findings provide the basis for a larger more systematic study.

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What organizational and business models underlie the provision of spiritual care in healthcare organizations? An initial description and analysis

Antoine

Fitchett

Marin

et al. 2020

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy

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“…The increasing number of clinically-trained multifaith chaplains has allowed the chaplain to be more fully integrated as the spiritual care professional on the healthcare team, moving beyond the role of a community religious professional brought in to the hospital for a ritual. Best practice models of care currently call for chaplains to be (1) based on healthcare teams, rather than be denominationally based, and (2) be a part of referral services for patients with documented spiritual=religious needs, rather than making visits only to those who ask for a chaplain (Fitchett et al, 2000;Handzo, 2006;Denley, 2010;Handzo & Wintz, 2006;Wintz & Handzo, 2005). While this new model is gaining wide acceptance and provides better congruence with the processes by which health care is currently provided, its efficacy and outcomes remain untested.…”

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Testing the Efficacy of Chaplaincy Care

Jankowski¹,

Handzo²,

Flannelly³

2011

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy

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The current article reviews the research conducted in the United States on the clinical practice of chaplains with patients and family members, referrals to chaplains, patient satisfaction with chaplaincy services, and the limited literature on the efficacy of chaplain interventions. It also discusses the methodological limitations of studies conducted on these topics and makes suggestions for improving future chaplaincy research. The authors conclude that past studies have not adequately defined chaplain interventions, nor sufficiently documented the clinical practice of chaplains, and that more and better designed studies are needed to test the efficacy of chaplaincy interventions. The authors recommend that chaplains generate research-based definitions of spirituality, spiritual care, and chaplaincy practice; and that more research be conducted to describe the unique contributions of chaplains to spiritual care, identify best chaplaincy practices to optimize patient and family health outcomes, and test the efficacy of chaplaincy care.

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“…This concept of ratio-driven care appears to support the application of consultative models where Spiritual Care providers work on-call or on an as-needed basis across a number of units or within a facility (Wintz & Handzo, 2005;Newberry, 2009). Such an approach appears at least partially responsive to a "current climate of budget vigilance and cost containment" (Piderman et al, 2010(Piderman et al, , p. 1007.…”

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Spiritual Care Professionals as Unit-Based Interdisciplinary Team Members? Considering Patient and Staff Perceptions in a Forensic Mental Health Care Setting

Heard

Scott

Yeo

2022

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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This project considers two co-occurring studies accounting perceptions of patients (n=8) and staff (n=8) related to assignment of Spiritual Care students as full-time interdisciplinary team members at a Forensic mental health facility. Students on 12-week placements were individually assigned to care units. Qualitative method consistent with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was employed. The co-occurring studies identified that enhanced access to Spiritual Care was valued. Staff and patients indicated a desire for more spirituality focused participation.

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Pastoral Care Staffing and Productivity: More than Ratios

Cited by 12 publications

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What organizational and business models underlie the provision of spiritual care in healthcare organizations? An initial description and analysis

What organizational and business models underlie the provision of spiritual care in healthcare organizations? An initial description and analysis

Testing the Efficacy of Chaplaincy Care

Spiritual Care Professionals as Unit-Based Interdisciplinary Team Members? Considering Patient and Staff Perceptions in a Forensic Mental Health Care Setting

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