How hospital chaplains develop and use rituals to address medical staff distress

Klitzman, Robert; Al-Hashimi, Jay; Natarelli, Gabrielle Di Sapia; Garbuzova, Elizaveta; Sinnappan, Stephanie

doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100087

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“…In brief, as described elsewhere (Klitzman, Al-Hashimi et al, 2022; Klitzman, Garbuzova et al, 2022), telephone interviews of approximately one hour each were conducted with board-certified chaplains in the US between 2020 and 2021. The Principal Investigator (PI), who has extensive experience conducting and analyzing data (Klitzman, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2019; Klitzman & Bayer, 2003; Klitzman & Daya, 2005) conducted the interviews.…”

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Exiting Patients’ Rooms and Ending Relationships: Questions and Challenges Faced by Hospital Chaplains

Klitzman

Natarelli

Sinnappan

et al. 2023

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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Questions arise about the scope/boundaries of chaplains’ relationships with patients/families. Interviews were conducted with 23 chaplains, who face questions/challenges regarding how to end visits and interactions—individual conversations and ongoing relationships with patients/families. Chaplains confront uncertainties and rely on verbal- and non-verbal cues to gauge how long to stay with each patient/family, sometimes unsure. These data, the first to explore chaplains’ challenges in ending visits/relationships with patients/families, have critical implications for practice, education, and research.

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Exiting Patients’ Rooms and Ending Relationships: Questions and Challenges Faced by Hospital Chaplains

Klitzman

Natarelli

Sinnappan

et al. 2023

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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“…In brief, as described elsewhere (Klitzman et al, 2022(Klitzman et al, , 2022a(Klitzman et al, , 2023, the researchers followed COREQ guidelines (Tong et al, 2007). Telephone interviews were conducted with board-certified chaplains in the United States between 2020 and 2021.…”

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“…Telephone interviews were conducted with board-certified chaplains in the United States between 2020 and 2021. The principal investigator (PI), who has extensive experience conducting and analyzing data (Klitzman & Bayer, 2003;Klitzman & Daya, 2005;Klitzman, 2008Klitzman, , 2012Klitzman, , 2015Klitzman, , 2019Klitzman et al, 2022Klitzman et al, , 2022aKlitzman et al, , 2023 conducted the interviews. Twenty-three boardcertified chaplains were interviewed for approximately 1 hour each.…”

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The Effects of Contextual Factors on Hospital Chaplains: A Qualitative Study

Klitzman,

Di Sapia Natarelli,

Sinnappan

et al. 2023

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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Critical questions arise about how contextual factors affect hospital chaplains. We interviewed 23 chaplains in-depth. Hospitals’ religious or other institutional affiliation, geography, and leadership can influence chaplains both explicitly/directly and implicitly/indirectly—for example, in types/amounts of support chaplains receive, scope of chaplains’ roles/activities, amounts/types of chaplains’ interactions, chaplains' views of their roles and freedom to innovate, and patients’, families’ and other providers’ perceptions/expectations regarding spiritual care. These data have critical implications for research, practice, and education.

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“…In Malaysia, prayer ( Salat ) contributed to alleviating job stress and enhancing well‐being and life satisfaction for Muslim nurses (Achour et al, 2019). A recent study in the United States (Klitzman et al, 2022) explored how hospital chaplains developed rituals to support medical staff (including nurses) during the pandemic. Challenges arose, including hospital leaders' wariness, resistance or lack of support, and staff time constraints, making briefer rituals more practical.…”

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The social relations of prayer in healthcare: Adding to nursing's equity‐oriented professional practice and disciplinary knowledge

Reimer‐Kirkham,

Sharma

2023

Nursing Inquiry

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Although spiritual practices such as prayer are engaged by many to support well‐being and coping, little research has addressed nurses and prayer, whether for themselves or facilitating patients' use of prayer. We conducted a qualitative study to explore how prayer (as a proxy for spirituality and religion) is manifest—whether embraced, tolerated, or resisted—in healthcare, and how institutional and social contexts shape how prayer is understood and enacted. This paper analyzes interviews with 21 nurses in Vancouver and London as a subset of the larger study. Findings show that nurses' kindness can buffer the loneliness and exclusion of ill health and in this way support the “spirit” of those in their care. Spiritual support for patients rarely incorporated prayer, in part because of ambiguities about permission and professional boundaries. Nurses' engagement with prayer and spiritual support could become a politicized site of religious accommodation, where imposition, religious illiteracy, and racism could derail person‐centered care and consequently enact social exclusion. Spiritual support (including prayer) sustained nurses themselves. We propose that nursing's equity‐oriented knowledge encompass spirituality and religion as sites of exclusion and inclusion. Nurses must be supported to move past religious illiteracy to provide culturally and spiritually sensitive care with clarity about professional boundaries and collaborative models of spiritual care.

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How hospital chaplains develop and use rituals to address medical staff distress

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Exiting Patients’ Rooms and Ending Relationships: Questions and Challenges Faced by Hospital Chaplains

Exiting Patients’ Rooms and Ending Relationships: Questions and Challenges Faced by Hospital Chaplains

The Effects of Contextual Factors on Hospital Chaplains: A Qualitative Study

The social relations of prayer in healthcare: Adding to nursing's equity‐oriented professional practice and disciplinary knowledge

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