Those in the field of palliative care have voiced significant concerns in recent years about workforce shortages, including a dearth of specialists, and the need to train generalists to meet a ...

Physicians and nurses at four Boston medical centers cited a lack of training to explain why they rarely provide spiritual care for terminally ill cancer patients – although most considered it an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Physicians and nurses at four Boston medical centers cited a lack of training to explain why they rarely provide spiritual care for terminally ill cancer patients - ...

This is a survey-based, multisite study conducted from March 2006 through January 2009. All eligible patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative radiation therapy and oncology physician and ...

Chaplains Eugenia Lai and Deacon Bill Wilson in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston offer spiritual care for patients at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

Spiritual care from medical practitioners is infrequent at the end of life, despite national standards. This study aimed to describe nurses' and physicians' desires to provide spiritual care to ...

(HealthDay News) – Although oncology nurses and physicians feel that spiritual care (SC) is an important, appropriate, and beneficial component of end-of-life (EOL) care for patients with advanced ...

Along with screening patients for signs of illness and physical issues, what if elderly care providers also performed a check for spiritual needs? Many nursing home residents rely on spirituality or ...

On December 12, 2017 and again on March 6, 2018, Rev. Eric J. Hall, President and CEO of Health Care Chaplaincy Network (HCCN) and its affiliated Spiritual Care Association (SCA), lobbied on Capitol ...