Christina Puchalski, Betty Ferrell

Making Health Care Whole

Integrating Spirituality Into Health Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Serving as both a scholarly review of the field as well as a practical resource with specific recommendations to improve spiritual care in clinical practice, Making Health Care Whole will benefit hospices and palliative care programs in hospitals, home care services, and long-term care services. It will also be a valuable addition to the curriculum at seminaries, schools of theology, and medical and nursing schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Templeton Press
• First Edition, 1 edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9781599473505
• ISBN-10: 159947350X
• Artikelnr.: 28212529

Autorenporträt

Christina Puchalski, MD, is executive director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWISH). She is on the editorial board of several palliative care journals and has served as chair or co-chair of several major conferences and initiatives in spirituality and health. She is the author of Time for Listening and Caring: Spirituality and the Care of the Seriously Ill and Dying (Oxford). Betty Ferrell is a research scientist at the City of Hope National Medical Center in California. She has devoted over thirty years to oncology nursing and research in the areas of quality of life, palliative care, and spiritual care. In 2007, Dr. Ferrell completed a master’s degree in theology, ethics, and culture from Claremont Graduate University and, in 2009, she and Dr. Puchalski led a national consensus conference on improving the quality of spiritual care in palliative care.