The Importance of CHAPLAINCY in HOSPICE Healthcare Setting

Abstract

This research paper intends to discover the significance of chaplaincy in Hospice healthcare setting. For this purpose, various aspects of chaplaincy in Hospice healthcare setting are discussed. This paper is a short response model to use in a Hospice association. It includes importance and role of spiritual care in Hospice healthcare setting. The word spirituality is used in a general term to describe religion. Spiritual care involves countrified care. Individuals who offer spiritual care in organization, such as, hospital or hospice are frequently known as chaplains and the practice or services offered by them can be termed as chaplaincy. Chaplains certified from board are trained to widely evaluate the spiritual requirements of patients and then provide a response to those requirements. Chaplains obtain training to perform this job from a broad array of religious traditions and for those who are not acquainted with religious traditions. Alongside Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant chaplains, there also exist Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist chaplains.

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Introduction1

Discussion1

Chaplaincy in Healthcare Settings1

Helping Individual Patients and Families2

Chaplain's Participation in Healthcare Settings3

A Distinct and Essential Function of Chaplains4

The Practice and Significance of Spiritual Care5

Services of Chaplain6

Limitations of Chaplaincy8

Conclusion8

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The Importance of CHAPLAINCY in HOSPICE Healthcare Setting

Introduction

In a hospice healthcare setting, chaplains are associated with a particular religious tradition; however, they are trained universally with regard to almost all major religious traditions. Hence, they are capable to offer religious and spiritual support to patient(s) of all beliefs. In a hospice setting, chaplains are the real specialists for spiritual care, and are the merely experts within the psychiatric or medical illness. Chaplains can either be specialize or generalists in adult care, pre - or postsurgical care, pediatrics, oncology, geriatrics, or the spiritual care of the person in his or her last days. “JCAHO (Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations” affirmed in 2003 that patients hold a primary right to understand care that protects their individual self-esteem and admires their psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural values.

Discussion

Chaplaincy in Healthcare Settings

In a number of hospice (preferably), chaplains are an essential component of the multidisciplinary health care team, take part in bedside hospice rounds on patients and attending multidisciplinary team conferences.

Chaplains are frequently engaged in disputable moral inquiries, for example evacuating ventilator help or nourishing tubes, different clashes identified with finish of-life choices, patient rebuttal of medication on religious grounds, cure of the developmentally postponed, etc. Chaplains obtain unique training to deal with these kinds of dilemmas. They play a vital role as on ethics committees in classifying and illuminating moral and spiritual perceptions of a patient, and in establishing how these might influence decision making. Chaplains are extremely and specifically supportive to patients, their families and hospice staffs throughout times of calamity like certain serious scenarios that may take place emergency rooms, ICU (intensive care units), and hospice healthcare settings.

Helping Individual Patients and Families

All clergymen discerned their part as one of administration, as benefits to give profound and religious watch over patients and their ...