Review Article

The Provision of Hospital Chaplaincy in the United States: A National Overview

Over the past 25 years, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has changed its guidelines regarding religious/spiritual care of hospitalized patients to increase attention concerning this aspect of hospital-based care. Little empirical evidence assesses the extent to which hospitals relied on hospital chaplains as care providers during…

Posted in: hospital chaplaincy 2 provision of healthcare services 2 religion 17 spirituality 20

Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project

What Training Should Be Required as an Education Standard for Healthcare and Hospital Chaplains?

Abstract:This document discusses training for hospital and healthcare chaplains in the light of different UK standards applied by various interested parties. It considers the different standards and concludes that there is no single applied standard for training for National Health Service (NHS) hospital chaplains across the UK. Those models that…

Posted in: chaplaincy 3 education 20 healthcare chaplaincy 2 hospital chaplaincy 2 training 7
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