Spiritual Health Toolkit
IHCAM is a member of the Provincial Spiritual Health Care Steering Committee that has been working together since 2015 to develop promotional, educational, and formation tools for individuals and organisations working in Spiritual Health and Spiritual Care in Manitoba. One of the partnerships that has been established is with the University of Manitoba to create a hub to share health information and knowledge. Please click onto the following link to find many resources, links to websites, etc.
MHIKNET SPIRITUAL HEALTH TOOL KIT
Other Resources, articles and power point presentations
Overcoming Barriers to Spiritual Health
Dr. Harold G. Koenig, October 2021
Beyond quality of life: the meaning of death and suffering in palliative care. - PubMed - NCBI
Total pain includes existential pain research paper. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20590348
Breaking News from Religion, Spirituality & Health Research
Harold G. Koenig, MD - 2016
These slides have links to some religious-integrated psychotherapies, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim and Hindu
CE: Moral Distress A Catalyst in Building Moral Resilience
Rushton, Cynda Hylton PhD, RN, FAAN; Caldwell, Meredith BA; Kurtz, Melissa MSN, RN
doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000484933.40476.5b
Featured Article from the American Journal of Nursing: https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2016/07000/CE___Moral_Distress_A_Catalyst_in_Building_Moral.25.aspx
Community Resiliency Model
A Public Health Model for Promoting Health and Healing: http://grscan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mary-Lynn-ACE-Conference-Community-Resilience-PDF.pdf
Developing Agreed and Accepted Understandings of Spirituality and Spiritual Care Concepts among Members of an Innovative Spirituality Interest Group in the Republic of Ireland
2016: http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/7/3/30/htm
Herth Hope Index − A psychometric study among cognitively intact nursing home patients.
Article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24620512
Herth Hope Scale Templae: http://www.allcare.org/CancerPain-and-SymptomManagement/wellbe/wbm4/Herth%20Hope%20Index.pdf
Inner Chaplaincy by Judy Long, A Reflection on “Being with Dying”
A Reflection on the book Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Roshi Joan Halifax
https://www.upaya.org/2016/02/inner-chaplaincy-by-judy-long-a-reflection-on-being-with-dying/
Standardized Methods of Education within Clinical Training for Chaplaincy
This article originally appeared in the January 16, 2018 issue of PlainViews®, the online journal published by HealthCare Chaplaincy Network and is published here with permission.
End of life choices Workshop
To obtain copies of the PPT presentations, click on the following links:
MAID INVOLUNTARY PILGRIM ON THE VIA NEGATIVA PALLIATIVE CARE
To view results of the Table discussions on MAID click here, and to view the Table discussion results on Suffering click here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
For those who were interested in Mary Shariff's presentation and would like to read further on the following subjects, please click on the links below that she has provided as resources:
- AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK ON PALLIATIVE CARE IN CANADA
http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-277/royal-assent
- THE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING (PROTECTION FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND OTHERS) ACT https://web2.gov.mb.ca/bills/41-2/b034e.php
- CMA , MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING (POLICY, 2017)
Excerpt: “The legalization of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) raises a host of complex ethical and practical challenges that have implications for both policy and practice. The CMA supports maintaining the balance between three equally legitimate considerations: respecting decisional autonomy for those eligible Canadians who are seeking access, protecting vulnerable persons through careful attention to safeguards, and creating an environment in which practitioners are able to adhere to their moral commitments.”
Spirituality Grants for IHCAM member facilities
Spirituality can be a source of strength to all people. Spiritual Care also provides one to one support to individuals when they find it difficult to express themselves; and assistance in maintaining the ways that bring peace and joy to their lives. IHCAM believes that spirituality can be a source of strength for residents, staff, clients, and patients, and can add hope, meaning and motivation to their lives.
It is for this reason that a new Spirituality Grant program has been designed to help member facilities support those being served as well as spiritual health practitioners who are making a commitment to this important field of work.
To view the Spirituality Grant document, click HERE
To view the Application form, click HERE
Core Competencies
Manitoba's Provincial Spiritual Health Care Steering Committee's Professional Education and Training Working Group have developed with partners , Manitoba's Core Competencies for Spiritual Health Care Practitioners in recruitment and evaluation of SHC practitioners. To view the Core Competencies, click HERE.
Pastoral Care Assessment Tool
In 2015 Catholic Health Australia (CHA) undertook an extensive survey about pastoral care service provision in the Catholic health andaged care sector. The report analysing the findings of the survey can be found at the CHA Website (www.cha.org.au). The survey report included a range of recommendations. These have been used to develop the following pastoral care assessment tool. Individuals, teams and organisations can use the tool as a way of recognising strengths and determining areas for improvement.
A suggested approach for using the pastoral care assessment tool is provided for consideration and adaptation. The template is intended to be a point of reference which can be adapted and/or integrated with an organisation’s existing frameworks and reporting tools. A point scoring system is offered as a way of measuring improvements over time. A suggested process is as follows:
1. Individual pastoral practitioners and managers self-assess how they perceive their service is performing against each of the focus area issues.
2. Pastoral care teams together review the results of the individual assessments and develop a “team assessment.”
3. The team assessment is presented to the executive for consideration, agreement of priorities and development of a plan of action.
4. The plan of action is reviewed and updated on a regular basis.
5. The pastoral care assessment tool is revisited to assess progress and determine new priorities and action plans.
To view the full assessment tool click on this link: http://www.cha.org.au/images/resources/CHA%20Pastoral%20Care%20Survey%20assessment%20tool%20March%202016.pdf
Dementia and Spirituality - A Conversation with Rev Prof Elizabeth MacKinlay AM, FACN, Ph.D
To listen to the rich conversation or to share with colleagues and friends, visit: https://youtu.be/Zwh-nkpdink
Additional Resources - Dementia and Spirituality
On-Line Educational Series
This 5-part educational series is designed to train health professionals to integrate spirituality into patient care as part of the practice of "whole person" medicine. Health professionals, regardless of specialty, are encouraged to watch all five videos (even though the first three videos are designed for physicians). The first video is an overview and summary of the series. The second video focuses on past research linking religion/spirituality to mental, social, behavioral, and physical health, which forms the rationale for this approach. The third video examines in detail "how to" integrate spirituality into patient care in a way that minimizes physician time and utilizes a team approach. The fourth video is designed for nurses and practice managers and focuses on the spiritual care coordinator, who orchestrates the addressing of patients' spiritual needs. The fifth video is designed for the entire spiritual care team and describes how team members work together to accomplish the common goal of practicing whole person care, with a focus on the role of the chaplain and the social worker.
https://spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu/index.php/cme-videos
Suicide screening
Spiritual Health practitioners are not trained to assess or diagnose risk for suicide. That said, you are often referred to patients who have suicidal ideation, are actively suicidal or following a suicide attempt. Though your focus is on assessing meaning and purpose in life as well as facilitating emotional/spiritual/religious supports, in order to better understand the person you may use the NHI Suicide screening tool; please check the responses with other health care professionals on the team.
Here is a link to the NHI Suicide screening tool.
Spiritual Care Practitioners are not diagnosticians. Having additional focused questions in your toolbox will help you do better assessments. Your findings must always be checked with team members who are trained to make diagnoses, be it Social Work, Psychology, Psychiatry etc.
What are suicide risk assessment tools and how should they be used?
The suicide risk assessment tools in this Toolkit aim to identify (1) specific symptoms or conditions known to be related to risk factors or warning signs for suicide (i.e., symptom assessment), and (2) resilience or protective factors that assess a person’s motivation or determination to live or die.
Such tools can be administered through self-report measures or via clinical-administered interviews or observations. They can be administered orally, with pencil and paper, and/or electronically, either independently (as a screening measure) or as part of more comprehensive health or behavioural health assessment.
While suicide risk assessment tools are important to the assessment process, they should be used to inform, not replace, clinical judgment3,5 and to provide additional information and corroboration to inform clinical decision-making about suicide risk and treatment planning. When possible, these tools should be incorporated into a more comprehensive clinical suicide risk assessment or evaluation and be administered by a trained clinician or healthcare worker (once a therapeutic rapport has been established).3,6
How to Use this Toolkit
This Toolkit seeks to provide a high-level overview of what to consider when using suicide risk assessment tools, along with a non-exhaustive list of available tools and their characteristics. It is designed to be a quick, informative guide for healthcare workers and organizations interested in selecting and comparing such tools. The process of assessing suicide risk is complex. While assessment tools play an important role, they should be used to inform, not replace, clinical judgment.
Sponsored by: The Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Production of this Toolkit has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada.