Alister Bull, Assessing and Communicating the Spiritual Needs of Children in Hospital: A New Guide for Healthcare Professionals and Chaplains. London: Jessica Kingsley, 2017, 139 pp. (Pbk). ISBN: 987-1-84905-637-3, £16.99.

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-319
Author(s):  
Kathryn Darby
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Spiritual Needs

End-of-Life Needs of Dying Patients and Their Families in Mainland China: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282199734
Author(s):  
Guobin Cheng ◽  
Chuqian Chen
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Symptom Control ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Dying Patients

Objective To map the current research status and understand existing findings regarding end-of-life care needs in Mainland China. Method First-hand, empirical studies on the needs of dying patients and/or their families in Mainland China were searched in Web of Science, Scopus, Proquest, Taylor & Francis Online and CNKI in December 2019. Findings were synthesized. Results A total of 33 (10 qualitative) studies were involved. Chinese dying patients and their families had physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs and needs for knowledge and information. Prevalent needs of dying patients were mainly symptom control and decent look, being treated kindly by professional caregivers, family accompany, dignity, and comfortable environment. Families mainly need healthcare professionals to take good care of patients and wishes for information, knowledge, and facilities to help themselves become better caregivers. Conclusions Findings lay the foundation for effective and tailored services for Chinese clients and provided insights for future investigations.

scholarly journals Being parent of a child with congenital heart disease, what does it mean? A qualitative research

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nahid Dehghan Nayeri ◽  
Zahra Roddehghan ◽  
Farzad Mahmoodi ◽  
Parvin Mahmoodi
Keyword(s):  
Congenital Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Data Saturation

Abstract Background Childbirth is one of the invaluable human experiences and is associated with parental happiness. However, when a child is born with congenital heart disease, it creates emotional and mental distress. As a result, it changes the parents’ response to their child birth. Exploring parenthood experiences add to the body of knowledge and reveal new perspectives. In order to make healthcare professionals able to support these children and their families, they should first understand the meaning of this phenomenon. This study aimed to explore the meaning of parenting a child with Congenital Heart Disease in Iran. Methods A qualitative study was adopted with a conventional content analysis approach and constant comparative analysis. Participants in this study were 17 parents, including parents of children with congenital heart disease who were selected by purposeful sampling method. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection and continued to data saturation. Data were analyzed via MAXQDA 10 software. Results Four categories and twenty three subcategories emerged as meaning of parenting a child with Congenital Heart Disease. Categories include “Emotional breakdown”, “The catastrophic burden of care”, “Spiritual beliefs of parents” and “The hard road” Conclusions Fully understanding the life experience of these families will allow the implementation of targeted health interventions. Hence, by understanding the meaning of parenting a child with Congenital Heart Disease, healthcare professionals can asses parents emotional statues, information and spiritual needs, financial condition, insurance and marital status using CHD standards so that support is individualized, sensitive and time appropriate.

scholarly journals Verbalizing spiritual needs in palliative care: a qualitative interview study on verbal and non-verbal communication in two Danish hospices

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Stage Voetmann ◽  
Niels Christian Hvidt ◽  
Dorte Toudal Viftrup
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Spiritual Nature ◽  
Spiritual Communication ◽  
The Way

AbstractDenmark is considered one of the World’s most secular societies, and spiritual matters are rarely verbalized in public. Patients report that their spiritual needs are not cared for sufficiently. For studying spiritual care and communication, twelve patients admitted to two Danish hospices were interviewed. Verbal and non-verbal communication between patients and healthcare professionals were identified and analysed. Methodically, the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used, and the findings were discussed through the lenses of existential psychology as well as philosophy and theory of caring sciences. Three themes were identified: 1. When death becomes present, 2. Direction of the initiative, and 3. Bodily presence and non-verbal communication. The encounter between patient and healthcare professional is greatly influenced by sensing, decoding, and interpretation. A perceived connection between the patient and the healthcare professional is of great importance as to how the patient experiences the relationship with the healthcare professional.The patient’s perception and the patient’s bodily experience of the healthcare professional are crucial to whether the patient opens up to the healthcare professional about thoughts and needs of a spiritual nature and initiates a conversation hereabout. In this way we found three dynamically connected movements toward spiritual care: 1. From secular to spiritual aspects of care 2. From bodily, sensory to verbal aspects of spiritual care and 3. From biomedical to spiritual communication and care. Thus, the non-verbal dimension becomes a prerequisite for the verbal dimension of spiritual communication to develop and unfold. The behaviour of the healthcare professionals, characterised by the way they move physically and the way they touch the patient, was found to be just as important as verbal conversation when it comes to spiritual care. The healthcare professional can create a connection to the patient through bodily and relational presence. Furthermore, the healthcare professionals should let their sensing and impressions guide them when meeting the patient in dialog about matters of a spiritual nature. Their perception of the patient and non-verbal communication are a prerequisite for being able to meet patient’s spiritual needs with care and verbal communication.

scholarly journals Factors influencing view of healthcare professionals on spiritual needs of patients.

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Imrich Andrási ◽  
Milan Minarik ◽  
Marek Sichman
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Leave Taking ◽  
Human Responsibility ◽  
The Way

Dying process can take different forms, may be perceived differently by persons present during the process, and it can be differently asses by dying because of their individuality. We must realize that every death is related to leave-taking man what man liked, with those whom he loved and who were close to him. Man is preparing himself to the dying during all his life, because the way of life is the way to death and man is trying to take it, but he must learn it. We often might think that in dying we are losing happiness, peace, values that we profess and everything we owned. This raises contradictory reactions in dying and in those that are touched by death. The patient in terminal stage of the disease is entrusted to palliative care, which currently aims to ensure to provide for patients a good quality of life until the end. On the other hand, consciousness of mortality often gives life balance and teaches human responsibility for the rest of their life. Some values in these period accents and some diminish the significance. Spiritual needs are closely related to the search for the meaning of life and death and cannot be limited to religiosity, although in most cases they are in this way understood.

scholarly journals The Catalogue of Spiritual Care Instruments: A Scoping Review

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Ricko Damberg Nissen ◽  
Erik Falkø ◽  
Dorte Toudal Viftrup ◽  
Elisabeth Assing Hvidt ◽  
Jens Søndergaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Cultural Validity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Further Development

Spiritual care has been a growing focus in international healthcare research over the last decades. The approaches to spiritual care are many and derive from many different medical fields and different cultural contexts and often remain unknown across healthcare areas. This points to a potential knowledge gap between existing instruments and the knowledge and use of them cross-disciplinarily and cross-culturally, and thus best practice insights are not sufficiently shared. This article contributes to the growing field of spiritual care by providing an overview of the various approaches (henceforth instruments) to assess patients’ spiritual needs in view of improving spiritual care. This was done through a scoping review method. The results of the review were collected and catalogued and presented here as ‘The Catalogue of Spiritual Care Instruments’. The included instruments derive from a wide range of geographical contexts and healthcare areas and are aimed at patients and healthcare professionals alike, clearly showing that spiritual care is a focus in healthcare internationally. However, it also shows the difficulties of defining spiritual care, the importance of local contexts, and the difficulties of cross-cultural validity. The catalogue contains 182 entries and is available as an interactive platform for the further development of spiritual care internationally.

scholarly journals “We are also here”—Spiritual Care Practitioners’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study from Poland

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Domaradzki
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Current Health ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAlthough healthcare professionals have become the symbol of risk and sacrifice during the COVID-19 pandemic, spiritual care practitioners (SCP) have also put themselves at great risk while offering their service in hospitals, hospices and other healthcare facilities. This study was designed to explore the lived experiences of SCP during the current health crisis in Poland. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-four SCP. Nine major themes emerged from the interviews: personal reactions to the pandemic, SCP’s perception of the pandemic, the impact of COVID-19 on the provision of spiritual care, spiritual needs during the pandemic, work-related emotions, the impact of the COVID-19 on religion, the role of spiritual care during the outbreak, the healthcare professionals’ perceptions of SCP and barriers to the provision of spiritual care during the pandemic. The SCP indicated that although the COVID-19 crisis has affected the availability of pastoral, religious and spiritual care, it has amplified the importance of such care and has positively influenced the visibility of SCP in modern healthcare practice. Nonetheless, in such desperate times, SCP are still neglected and should be further recognised and integrated into the healthcare system.

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