From the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA.
Cancer J. 2013 Sep-Oct;19(5):431-7. doi: 10.1097/PPO.0b013e3182a5baa5.
There is a compelling need to integrate spirituality into the provision of quality palliative care by oncology professionals. Patients and families report the importance of spiritual, existential, and religious concerns throughout the cancer trajectory. Leading palliative care organizations have developed guidelines that define spiritual care and offer recommendations to guide the delivery of spiritual services. There is growing recognition that all team members require the skills to provide generalist spiritual support. Attention to person-centered, family-focused oncology care requires the development of a health care environment that is prepared to support the religious, spiritual, and cultural practices preferred by patients and their families. These existential concerns become especially critical at end of life and following the death for family survivors. Oncology professionals require education to prepare them to appropriately screen, assess, refer, and/or intervene for spiritual distress.
非常有必要将灵性融入肿瘤专业人员提供的优质姑息治疗中。患者和家属报告说,在癌症病程中,灵性、存在主义和宗教问题非常重要。主要的姑息治疗组织已经制定了定义灵性护理的指南,并提出了指导提供灵性服务的建议。越来越多的人认识到,所有团队成员都需要提供一般灵性支持的技能。关注以人为本、以家庭为中心的肿瘤护理需要建立一个能够支持患者及其家属所偏好的宗教、精神和文化实践的医疗环境。这些存在主义问题在临终和家属幸存者去世后尤其关键。肿瘤专业人员需要接受教育,以便能够适当地进行筛查、评估、转介和/或干预灵性困扰。