Internal page on AHS Insite. Provides a wealth of resources, such as a spiritual assessment screening tool, a spiritual history tool, spiritual health practitioner roles and responsibilities with medical assistance in dying, and the AHS Health Care and Religious Beliefs booklet.
Pallium Canada and Covenant Health Palliative Institute. A webinar series intended for health care and spiritual care providers across Alberta. Topics explored will be relevant to emotional, spiritual, and grief support in palliative care and bereavement, as well as self-care for clinicians. Registration is required.
Highlights Dr. Christina Pulchaski's research and provides links to other resources about spirituality and health. Includes SOERCE collection. Consult Programs section to access the FICA Spiritual History Tool.
Contains a wealth of information about spiritual care, including educational resources. The Research section offers scope of practice, quality indicators, infographics and a literature review about the efficacy of spiritual care.
Balboni and others, JAMA, 2022. A systematic review and a multidisciplinary Delphi panel assessed the evidence regarding spirituality and health, developed 16 evidence statements, and offered 6 implications regarding incorporation of spirituality in the care of patients with serious illness and in health outcomes.
Patricia Smith, Healthy Caregiving LLC. This website is dedicated to educating caregivers about how to recognize and manage compassion fatigue with the goal of achieving authentic, sustainable self-care and aiding organizations in providing healthy, compassionate care.
Professional Quality of Life (ProQol) is the most commonly used measure of the negative and positive affects of helping others who experience suffering and trauma. It includes sub-scales for compassion satisfaction, burnout and compassion fatigue.
Hildebrand, Reimer-Kirkham & Quinn, Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 2023. Reports on a qualitative study of Canadian spiritual care practitioners.
Vol.8, no.2, 2020. Presents initial research and reflections from 7 countries about the provision of spiritual care to patients, families and staff during first 6 months of the pandemic.
New York-Presbyterian, 2022. A collection of introductions in 20 different languages to help English-speaking chaplains offer spiritual care to patients and families with limited English proficiency.
