Ragsdale Judith R, Desjardins Cate Michelle
Department of Pastoral Care, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
J Health Care Chaplain. 2022 Apr-Jun;28(2):239-254. doi: 10.1080/08854726.2020.1861533. Epub 2020 Dec 28.
Research on the multiple uses of religion/spirituality (R/S) in healthcare and on the practices of healthcare chaplaincy support creation of a middle-range, prescriptive theory for chaplaincy for patients who use R/S in their healthcare experiences. Religiously Informed, Relationally Skillful Chaplaincy Theory (RIRSCT) seeks to integrate research into practice in order to improve spiritual care and allow for testing RIRSCT. The components of RIRSCT are: patients whose religion is a significant part of their worldview often use R/S in healthcare to make meaning, to cope, and to make medical decisions; chaplains should be the members of the healthcare team to assess and address R/S; healthcare teams could provide more personalized treatment by integrating patients' R/S into the treatment plan, which could improve patient experience. This article describes the components of RIRSCT and provides examples of chaplaincy guided by RIRSCT. Selected research articles supporting theory components are reviewed.
关于宗教/灵性（R/S）在医疗保健中的多种用途以及医疗保健牧师实践的研究，支持为在医疗经历中使用R/S的患者创建一种适用于牧师工作的中程规范性理论。宗教知情、关系娴熟的牧师关怀理论（RIRSCT）旨在将研究融入实践，以改善灵性关怀并允许对RIRSCT进行检验。RIRSCT的组成部分包括：其宗教是世界观重要组成部分的患者在医疗保健中常利用R/S来赋予意义、应对困难并做出医疗决策；牧师应作为医疗团队成员来评估和处理R/S；医疗团队可通过将患者的R/S纳入治疗计划来提供更个性化的治疗，这可改善患者体验。本文描述了RIRSCT的组成部分，并提供了受RIRSCT指导的牧师关怀示例。对支持理论组成部分的精选研究文章进行了综述。
