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Chaplaincy in Palliative Care Settings

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Author: Palgal1
Date: May 19, 2008 5:20 pm
If your chaplain is CPE trained, then proselytization should not be an issue. The role of chaplain is to listen and walk alongside patients in families in their journey. Spiritual care interventions are part of what we do in palliative medicine. After all, suffering occurs along spiritual domains as well. We had a patient in our program with "wailing of the soul" whenever she awakened from her pain medications. It took quite a bit of convincing the nurses on the ward that simply "shutting her up" was not enough. The entire interdisciplinary team got involved and her spiritual, psychological, and social issues were addressed with good results. This would not have happened with medication alone. Chaplain services are underutilized, but if you are fearful of proselytization, then it is understandable.
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