The Roles of Hospice and Palliative Chaplains

Starting with the hospice chaplains, they are specialized specialist professionals  who usually provide spiritual care to people or care recipients in a spcecialized hospice centers or in the care recipients homes.

Although, hospice chaplains are members of the healthcare professionals; they are disctinctly different from hospital chaplains:-

1.     They provide the needed ministry of presence of chaplaincy to their care recipients as they stand with them in their situations.

2.     They provide comfort and conducive atmosphere to their care recipients.

3.     They ensure that their care recipients maintain needed connectivity with themselves, their relations as well as the source of life as the spiritual care they desire.

Hospice chaplains are not religious or denomination chaplains as they are called to offer chaplaincy care services to all people of various religions and people of no religion whatsoever; even though they have their own religions.

Their primary assignment is to provide needed care, comfort and connectivity to those who have gotten to end of life at their homes or specialized hospice centers different from hospital setting.

NB: Hospice chaplaincy provide a widow of opportunity for employment for chaplains who are interested in such chaplaincy setting as well as opportunity to venture into private practice and home care delivery.

Palliative Care: Palliative care chaplains are also specialists professional chaplains who offer chaplaincy care services to patients or care recipients in the hospital settings, their roles are as follows:

1.     They usually provide palliative care chaplaincy services to terminally ill patients in the hospital. 

2.     They rekindle hopes in the hopeless patients they may have in their care.

3.     They ensure their care recipients take their prescribed therapeutic treatment as recommended by doctors who are specialist oncologists.

4.     They provide follow up care for patients especially after chemotherapy or surgery; whatever the treatment feaslsly employed or radiation treatment.

5.     They usually stand with their care recipients until they are healed and discharged.

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Chap. David Mike-Jacobs CPC, CPST, BCC.

Professor of Anthropology, Certified Chaplaincy Educator & Trainer.

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14^th Oct, AD2022