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Chaplaincy in Palliative Care Settings

In Reply To: Re: Assessment tools
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Author: ghandzo [Expert]
Date: Jun 20, 2008 3:30 pm
If I understand Ms. Herr correctly, I agree that working with the team is key. What does the family know about the patient's hopes and beliefs? The comment about working with the staff around pain is also germane. Where does the pain come from? We often assume that pain that is manifest through body movements, moaning, and grimacing, etc, is physical in origin. The pain could be emotional and/or spiritual that we should attend to. The again points up the importance of an interdisciplinary assessment of which chaplaincy is an integral part.

The Rev. George Handzo, BCC
Vice President
Pastoral Care Leadership & Practice
The HealthCare Chaplaincy
New York, NY
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