What’s required: Hospice providers must complete a comprehensive assessment—including spiritual needs—within five days of admission, updating it as the patient’s condition and needs change. Who’s ...

The original report by Balboni and colleagues 1 regarding spiritual support is not a subtle message about a possible need for a few patients with cancer. It is a strong statement of a seriously unmet ...

The landscape of spiritual care in hospice and palliative settings is shifting rapidly in 2026, driven by new symposiums on spiritual bypassing and updated CMS documentation standards that demand ...

The effects of treatment on sexual function of patients with operable breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...

MOST HEALTHCARE professionals here do not receive training in how to address the spiritual or emotional needs of patients, and the stress of repeatedly witnessing pain and distress can have a ...

The multidisciplinary and holistic assessment of older people allows health professionals to gain insight into their individual needs. The spiritual domain is one of five key domains that need to be ...

Nurses must be confident in assessing and implementing spiritual care. Active listening and effective communication will help gain an understanding of needs AbstractSartori P (2010) Spirituality 2: ...

Joseph D. Phillips, MD Staff Physician and Assistant Professor of Surgery Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Currently, large amounts of research in lung ...