Spiritual Care at The End Of Life: Western Views and Islamic Perspectives

Spiritual care at the end of life.

An essential part of end-of-life medical care, spiritual care allows physicians to recognize problems like meaninglessness, anguish, and hopelessness, for which effective interventions are available. This form of care can be a deeply rewarding area of medical practice.

spiritual care at the end of life in the islamic context, a systematic review

abstract: according to the statistics over 30000 deaths occur annually in iran due to cancer with an incidence of over 70000 new cases; this growing rate is similar to the developing world. these figures do not take into account other chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart failure, gastro-intestinal disorders, chronic neurological disorders and lung disease, which all warrant palliative care. a...

Spiritual care at the end of life: what is it and who does it?

Nurse and physician barriers to spiritual care provision at the end of life.

CONTEXT Spiritual care (SC) from medical practitioners is infrequent at the end of life (EOL) despite national standards. OBJECTIVES The study aimed to describe nurses' and physicians' desire to provide SC to terminally ill patients and assess 11 potential SC barriers. METHODS This was a survey-based, multisite study conducted from October 2008 through January 2009. All eligible oncology nu...

A biopsychosocial-spiritual model for the care of patients at the end of life.

PURPOSE This article presents a model for research and practice that expands on the biopsychosocial model to include the spiritual concerns of patients. DESIGNS AND METHODS Literature review and philosophical inquiry were used. RESULTS The healing professions should serve the needs of patients as whole persons. Persons can be considered beings-in-relationship, and illness can be considered ...