NewsLine - August 2013 - (Page 16)

From the NCHPP Spiritual Caregiver Section* A Case S for the PreacherNurse: Integrating Spiritual Care More Fully into Hospice piritual care has been a strong component of hospice care since its medieval inception. The very first hospices were developed during the Crusades at a time when monasteries were centers for healthcare. The purpose of hospices (from the Latin word hospes, meaning to host a guest or stranger) was to provide care for sick pilgrims and crusaders journeying between Europe and Jerusalem.1 Dame Cicely Saunders is credited with founding modern hospice in the 1960s. Saunders — who was trained as a nurse, medical social worker and finally a physician — felt the need for a system of healthcare professionals who work together to treat the “total pain” of the dying — “a complex of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual elements.” In 1996 she wrote: By Alice Tremaine The advances in pharmacology and the new technologies are not the whole story. At our preliminary training school we were taught that we were host to our patients and their visiting families. It was also taken for granted that we would join in ward prayers morning and evening and carry out ‘last offices’ with reverence and respect. Life has changed greatly in over 55 years, but people’s needs, though expressed differently, remain beyond the strictly physical.2 In the United States, inspired by the works of Saunders and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a group of social reformers began an initiative to research and reform care for the dying. In 1971, a Hospice, Inc. steering committee worked on developing a statement of philosophy and essential components of hospice care. Members of the committee agreed on three assumptions: (1) that hospice is a “total community” which includes patients, families and staff; (2) that a hospice facility would be structured to provide socialization and community involvement, and (3) that hospice would provide an interdisciplinary approach, where professional roles would be flexible in order to allow for staff to “substitute” for one another and to “call on each other * he National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals (NCHPP) is comprised of 15 discipline-specific T Sections that represent the staff and volunteers who work for NHPCO provider-members. To learn more about this NCHPP Section, visit the NHPCO website. 16 NewsLine http://www.nhpco.org/national-council-hospice-and-palliative-professionals/nchpp-sections

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NewsLine - August 2013

Raising Funds for Your Hospice
A Message From Don
Raising Funds & Friends Through 2 NHF Programs
On Being a Hospice Volunteer and Now a Patient
ehospice USA (display ad)
A Case for the Preacher-Nurse
Simione Consulting (display ad)
Virtual Conference: Save the Date (display ad)
The New Outreach Ads are Here
Webcast of Don Berwick's April Plenary
OIG Reports on Use of General Inpatient Care
Member News and Notes
Compliance Tip
Innovation and Excellence at CTC (display ad)
Videos Worth Watching
Links to Resources on the NHPCO Website
News From FHSSA

NewsLine - August 2013