Interprofessional communication training to address spiritual aspects of cancer care.
J Health Care Chaplain
; 29(4): 399-411, 2023.
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ABSTRACT
Effective communication is essential for palliative care clinicians to provide quality spiritual care to cancer patients. Despite attention to spiritual needs having the potential to positively impact a patient's quality of life, clinicians continue to report a lack of confidence in addressing a patient's spiritual distress. This article addresses the development of a 3-day train-the-trainer communication cancer education program (ICC Interprofessional Communication Curriculum) organized by the 8 domains of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. The main objectives of ICC are to train adult oncology clinicians (nurses, social workers, and chaplains) in communication skills across all aspects of palliative care and to help prepare them to provide communication skills training to their colleagues at their home institutions. ICC participants attend in dyads consisting of differing disciplines and create 3 goals for implementing institutional change. To date, 126 participants (69 teams) have attended an ICC training. Pre-course survey results identified spiritual care as participants' least effective area of communication. Immediate post-course evaluation data revealed the spiritual care module and its subsequent lab session as the most useful sessions to participant's practice. Data from the 6-and-12-months post-course follow-up revealed participant's quality improvement projects focused heavily on improving spiritual care.
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J Health Care Chaplain
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HOSPITAIS
Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article
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Estados Unidos