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Author: chaplainjudy
Date: Jun 13, 2010 9:18 pm
I want to develop a Spiritual Care Plan which will be incorporated in our current Palliative Care Plan. Can anyone help with templates, suggestions, or examples?
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Re:Spiritual Care Plans (by Tim_Ford on 06/15/2010)
Judy,

Though it is not specific to Palliative, I would point you to the ACPE Research Network webpage:
http://www.acperesearch.net/

which had good, current links to resources, especially Healthcare Chaplaincy:
http://www.healthcarechaplaincy.org/userimages/pb-discerning-patient-needs-spiritual-assessment.pdf

And Fetzer:
http://www.fetzer.org/images/stories/pdf/MultidimensionalBooklet.pdf

finally, the ACPE Research Newsletter covered assessment tools a few years ago here:
http://www.acperesearch.net/jun05.html

Our team uses the hospital-wide self-developed tool which is undergoing revision but essentially is a check-list of assessment domains (i.e. Forgiveness, Isolation, Hopelessness etc...) , interventions (i.e. Life Review, Bereavement care, Prayer etc..) and outcomes (i.e. Enhanced sense of meaning, Enhanced sense of self, etc...).

Hope this helps, let us know what you come up with!

Tim Ford
Palliative Care Chaplain
VCU Massey Cancer Center
Richmond, VA
Re:Spiritual Care Plans (by ghandzo on 06/15/2010)
I think its first important to keep the terminology straight. Chaplain Ford is talking about as assessment template which is the place to begin. A Plan emerges from the assessment and can include spiritual diagnoses and proposed interventions along with the assessment results themselves. In additon to the links Chaplain Ford points out, I would refer you to a relatively new book by Christina Puchalski and Betty Ferrel called "Making Health Care Whole" which has some good models for integrating spiritual care.

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

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