Open AccessA CHAPLAINCY VOLUNTEER VISITORS SERVICE
Author(s) -
Sheilah Bond
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
health and social care chaplaincy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2051-5561
pISSN - 2051-5553
DOI - 10.1558/hscc.v4i2.32
Subject(s) - visitor pattern , nursing , service (business) , volunteer , work (physics) , public relations , health care , spiritual care , psychology , medicine , sociology , business , political science , marketing , alternative medicine , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , pathology , spirituality , computer science , agronomy , biology , programming language
In the ever changing world of healthcare, hospitals are experiencing shorter stays, and increased patient throughput. Spiritual care has also seen a marked rise in profile and chaplains are increasingly seeing fewer patients for more in depth work, often in a crisis, and find themselves increasingly responding to referrals from other members of staff. Add to that increasing opportunities to teach and its not surprising new approaches need to be developed Gillian Munro explains the development of a chaplaincy volunteer visitor service as one approach to change, and three visitors tell us of their experiences.