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CHAPLAINCY
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Helen Bunce GRI
Chaplains
A person who is appointed and recognised as
part of the specialist spiritual care team within
a health care setting. His or her job is to seek
out and respond to those who are expressing
spiritual and religious need by providing the
appropriate care, or facilitating that care,
through contacting, with the patients
permission, the representative of choice
North Glasgow
Lead Chaplain
Rev Anne Harper
North
Rev Anne Harper
Lead Chaplain
Sandra Bell
Chaplain
GRI
Helen Bunce
Chaplain
GRI
Stobhill
Norma Livingstone
Chaplain
GRI
Specialist Areas – GRI &
Stobhill
Palliative Care
Renal
Medicine for the elderly
Maternity
Burns Unit
Transplant
Plastic Surgery
West Glasgow
Rev Keith Saunders
Lead Chaplain
Western & Gartnavel
Rev Anne Dougall
Chaplain
Gartnavel & Blawarthill
Sessional Chaplains
Iain Beaton
Stobhill
Bill Ramsey
Lightburn
Fourhills
Irene Fitchett
Stobhill
Andrew McMillan
Drumchapel
Volunteers
65 volunteers within North Glasgow
Escorts provided for Sunday Services in
GRI
Trained Chaplaincy Visitors
Students on placement
Eucharistic Ministers
Roman Catholic Chaplains
GRI: via radio pager/switchboard
Father John McGrath – Stobhill
Father Joe Sullivan - GRI
Sister May Commins - Western
Western & Gartnavel - Deanery
Who do we visit?
Patients of all or no faiths, staff, visitors
Faith Community
A recognisable
group who share a
belief system and
usually undertake
religious practices
such as prayer,
scripture reading,
meditation, and
communal acts of
worship
Belief Group
Any group which has a cohesive system
of values or beliefs but which does not
classify as a faith community.
E.g. African-Caribbean
Somali Culture
Akan (Ghana)
Cultural Groups
Humanist
Spirituality is whatever gives a person meaning, worth and value.
Unique to each individual, for some that can be their religion, for
others music, nature, family, friends etc
“Spirituality is a slippery word these days, involving anything
from monasticism to wind chimes, but I have never been able to
resist tinkering under the bonnet of the soul.
No longer convinced by the absolutes of my childhood, I
nevertheless hankered after something to replace them, a
workable credo with which to engage life.”
(Adrift in Caledonia, Boathitching for the Unenlightened
Nick Thorpe 2006)
Spiritual Care
1-2-1 relationship, completely person centred and makes no assumptions
personal conviction or life orientation
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Why Listen to Stories?
Central explanation of ourselves
They haunt or inspire
Help bind our world together and give a
sense of place and purpose
We all have a luminous world below the
surface, a world offered as a gift to others….if
we are asked.
(Barack Obama : Dreams from my Father)
Who gives spiritual care?
We all do!!!
“How are you doing tonight?” = Spiritual Care
Indicators of spiritual distress
Why me? Why Now?
Putting on a brave face - I mustn’t let
my family down.
“I can’t take anymore”
“I’d be better off dead”
Talks more of religion/God/afterlife
Turns face to the wall
Addressing Spiritual Needs/DistressRecognise
The need to give and receive love
The need to be understood
The need to be valued as a human being
The need for forgiveness, hope and trust
The need to explore beliefs and values
The need to express feelings honestly
The need to find meaning and purpose in life.
People are not merely physical bodies
requiring mechanical fixing.
Some find their spirituality helps maintain their
health and helps them cope with illness,
trauma, loss, change as body, mind & spirit
integrate.
Whether religious or not people share deep
needs as they try to make sense of &
maintain hope when illness or injury strikes.
F.A.Q’S
Is God angry with me?
Is God punishing me?
Is this happening because I didn’t go to
church?
Has God given up on me?
Why me?
Most Frequent Answer!
NO !
What are the spiritual needs of
patients/families in last days and
hours
Fear of dying
Unresolved issues
Unfinished business
Fear of letting go
How can we meet these needs?
Being there, listening, giving hope,
Fostering companionship & peace
Focussing on individual
Being non-judgemental
Giving a sense of meaning
Advocacy
Helping a person to be him/herself:
retaining sense of personal worth
maintaining their own identity
Liverpool Care Pathway
GRI & Stobhill
Ext 24661 & 13098
Leave a message on Chaplaincy
answering machine when a patient is
placed on the Pathway. Someone will
get back to you.
Please don’t leave it until a few minutes
before the patient dies
Religious care:shared beliefs,values,liturgies and
lifestyle
Religious care
Prayer
Services on Sunday
Baptism
Blessing of Babies
Sacrament of the Sick
Anointing
Sacraments-Eucharist, Reconciliation
Contact appropriate faith leader at patient’s
request
What about faith groups other than Christian?
What about Muslims?
Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Buddhists?
Christian Science?
Baha’i?
Sikh?
Mormon?
Hindu?
Jews ?
Where can we find info about how to help other faiths?
RELIGIONS & CULTURE MANUAL-provided by the Chaplains
Where can you find us?
GRI :0141 211 4661
Stobhill :- 0141 201 3098
Western:- 0141 211 2812
Gartnavel:- 0141 211 3026
Pager via hospital switchboards
RC Chaplains: pager via switchboards