Islamic Approaches to Patient Care:Muslim Beliefs and Healthcare Practices for Caregivers
Ra ufa Sherry Tuell serves as a Muslim chaplain at a major level-one trauma hospital in the Midwest, and conducts workshops for healthcare workers and students on how to care for Muslim patients. A graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996, she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, and copywriter. In 2002, after a profound conversion experience, she entered Islam. It was at this time that she started studying Islam, earning a three-year Certificate in Spiritual Counseling and Healing from the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism, Angwin, Calif., in 2006. Subsequently, she was appointed the rank of Master Sufi Teacher of the Shadhdhuliyyah Sufi Order by Sidi Muhammad Sa'id al-Jamal ar-Rifa'i as-Shadhili, a central figure at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and the Head of the Higher Sufi Council in Palestine and the Holy Land. In 2010, she received a Master of Divinity/ Graduate Certificate of Islamic Chaplaincy from Hartford Seminary, Hartford, Conn.