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Chaplaincy in Palliative Care Settings

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Author: ghandzo [Expert]
Date: Jun 30, 2009 1:12 pm
Preferred Practice #22 might be called an "aspirational" goal. That is, while it is desirable and "should" happen, it cannot happen at the moment because there is no certification in palliative care for professional chaplains at the moment. There is a movement underway to contruct such a program. It will likely presume Board Certification. That is, one will have to be a BCC before one can be eligible for certification in this specialty. In the mean time, there is a major white paper whose executive summary will be published in the fall(Puchalski, CM, Ferrell, B, Otis-Green, S, et al. 2009 (in press). Improving the quality of spiritual care as a dimension of palliative care. Journal of Palliative Medicine). This paper will give a great deal more specificity to the roles and skills appropriate to professional chaplains on palliative care teams.

The Rev. George Handzo, BCC
Vice President
Pastoral Care Leadership & Practice
HealthCare Chaplaincy
New York, NY
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Re:Re:spiritual care professionals (by Deb on 06/30/2009)
There is the ACE Project through the City of Hope. Our chaplain has attended it and found it to be helpful.

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