Spiritual care in common terms
Subtitle: how chaplains can effectively describe the spiritual needs of patients in medical records
By: Gordon J. Hilsman, D. Min ; foreword by James H. Gunn
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781785927249; 9781784503697
Subjects: Medical Records; Religious aspects; Patients; Hospital Chaplaincy Service; Spirituality; Patient Care; Religious life; Medical care
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why record the Intangible in healthcare culture? --; title: Theory: a humanist view of spirituality: universal sources of patient stories --; title: Content: twenty-two spiritual needs common among hospitalized people and their goals of care --; title: Format: a shape for an elegant chart note --; title: Process: extracting the relevant --; title: Outcomes: a phenomenological approach -- -- Epilogue:; title: Becoming and remaining a spiritual Clinician -- -- Appendix:; title: Use of chaplain chart notes by interdisciplinary team members at a leading US Hospital.