Butler Anthony, Duffy Kathleen
Practice Development Centre, NHS Lanarkshire, Hamilton, Scotland.
NHS Education for Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland.
Nurs Stand. 2019 Oct 10. doi: 10.7748/ns.2019.e11282.
To investigate attitudes towards chaplaincy in NHS Scotland, including the role of the chaplain in supporting healthcare staff.
This was a qualitative study that involved semi-structured interviews with four chaplains working throughout NHS Scotland. The research transcripts were analysed, and themes were identified and examined.
Two main themes were identified from the interviews: understanding the role of the chaplain; and understanding the future role of the chaplain. The sub-themes identified were: healthcare staff members' perceptions; chaplains' perceptions; generic chaplaincy services; and becoming an allied healthcare profession.
The findings of this study suggest that chaplains are increasingly providing support to healthcare staff, alongside their role in providing support to patients. The researchers also identified that chaplains in Scotland are adopting an increasingly educational role and that, in the future, they may adopt reflective practice programmes to assist them in managing increased requests for chaplaincy support from healthcare staff. It was also acknowledged that chaplaincy services may also be required to become an allied healthcare profession in the future, which may require chaplains to provide an increasingly generic and less religious service.
调查苏格兰国民保健服务体系（NHS Scotland）中对牧师关怀服务的态度，包括牧师在支持医护人员方面的作用。
这是一项定性研究，涉及对在苏格兰国民保健服务体系工作的四位牧师进行半结构化访谈。对研究记录进行了分析，确定并研究了相关主题。
从访谈中确定了两个主要主题：理解牧师的角色；以及理解牧师的未来角色。确定的子主题有：医护人员的看法；牧师的看法；一般牧师关怀服务；以及成为一门辅助医疗专业。
本研究结果表明，牧师在为患者提供支持的同时，越来越多地为医护人员提供支持。研究人员还发现，苏格兰的牧师正发挥着越来越重要的教育作用，并且在未来，他们可能会采用反思性实践项目，以帮助他们应对医护人员对牧师关怀支持需求的增加。研究还承认，未来牧师关怀服务可能还需要成为一门辅助医疗专业，这可能要求牧师提供越来越普遍且宗教色彩越来越淡的服务。
