Fitchett George
Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
J Health Care Chaplain. 2002;12(1-2):67-72. doi: 10.1300/J080v12n01_07.
Health care chaplaincy should become a research-informed profession in the next ten years. This article describes my rationale for this statement and outlines a plan for accomplishing it. This means that all professional health care chaplains will value the contributions that research can make to their ministry and some chaplains will be engaged in research that informs the profession. Becoming a research-informed profession does not mean losing our emphasis on compassion, faith, presence, self-awareness, or any of the other rich resources of our tradition. It does mean supplementing those resources with the information research provides. I conclude that the question that professional health care chaplains face is not whether to become a research-informed profession, but how to get there.
在未来十年,医疗保健神职关怀应成为一个基于研究的专业领域。本文阐述了我提出这一观点的理由,并概述了实现这一目标的计划。这意味着所有专业的医疗保健神职人员都将重视研究对其神职工作的贡献,并且一些神职人员将从事为该专业提供信息的研究。成为一个基于研究的专业领域并不意味着我们不再强调同情心、信仰、陪伴、自我认知或我们传统中的任何其他丰富资源。这确实意味着要用研究所提供的信息来补充这些资源。我得出的结论是,专业医疗保健神职人员面临的问题不是是否要成为一个基于研究的专业领域,而是如何实现这一目标。