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Help clinicians empathize with their patients
- Religion and spirituality in medicine can help clinicians empathize with their patients, collaborate with hospital chaplains, and advance faith-based initiatives, hospital policy, and legislation.
Jul 1, 2014 · As many have pointed out, the focus on body and mind is quite good, particularly in the intensive care unit (ICU). Nevertheless, an area that is often left unmanaged—much as it maintains great significance—is that of the patient’s spirit.
- Richard H. Savel, Cindy L. Munro
- 2014
We discuss below the most important spirituality dimensions (“connection,” “interpretation of life,” “beliefs, practices and experiences,” “spirituality sensations”, and “spirituality as an intrinsic component of human beings”) found in these studies.
Jul 12, 2022 · Spirituality should be incorporated into care for both serious illness and overall health, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
- Harvardgazette
- Healing Clinical Relationships
- Intimacy with Formality
- Boundaries
- Conclusion
An integral part of spiritual care is the focus on the patient-clinician relationship in which care is viewed from a humanistic as well as technical perspective. Differentiation is drawn between cure and healing and between disease and illness. An emphasis on cure or disease relies primarily on the scientific model of care. Focusing on healing or i...
Intimacy with formality recognizes that there is a power differential between the clinician and the patient. Patients feel a sense of vulnerability and lack of control and view the power and control as belonging to the clinician. Clinicians have a moral obligation to never exploit a patient, to be trustworthy, and to use their expertise and power w...
Appropriate therapeutic relationships with patients and families adhere to boundaries. This is for the benefit of the patient, family, and clinician. Boundaries are mutually understood, unspoken, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual limits to the professional relationship. Where the clinician ends, the other person begins. Observing boundarie...
Spiritual care supports the relationship-centered model of health care. Clinicians who open the door to spiritual questions of meaning and purpose, suffering, and issues at the boundaries of life and death gain intimate relationships within the clinical context. To sustain this relationship effectively, ethical guidelines must be honored and bounda...
- Christina M. Puchalski, Stephen G. Post, Richard P. Sloan
- 2009
The four foundational principles are (1) nonmaleficence (first of all, do no harm), (2) beneficence (always seek the patient’s best interest), (3) respect for autonomy (the patient has a right to self-determination), and (4) justice (we should treat like patients alike, without discrimination).
- Robert D. Orr
- 2015
Jun 1, 2019 · Evidence of the role of spirituality within illness and patient outcomes should serve as a trigger for the medical system to constructively respond to patients’ spirituality/religion as part of patient-centered and culturally sensitive care.
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Jul 11, 2018 · Spirituality is increasingly recognized as an essential element of patient care and health. It is often during illness that patients experience deep spiritual and existential suffering. With clinicians’ care and compassion, patients are able to find solace and healing through their spiritual beliefs and values.
