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Puchalsi, Christina and Ferrell, Betty. Making Health Care Whole: Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care

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“Integrating Work And Spirit: Spiritual Direction and Orlando Regional Healthcare” from Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 13.2, published by Spiritual Directors International.

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Articles:

"Companioning the Dying: A ministry of love, understanding" [S. Rose Mary Dougherty, SSND shares her stories and experience.] By Phyllis Brill, Communications Director, Atlantic-Midwest Province. Permission granted to reprint from NAMA newsletter of School Sisters of Notre Dame, March 2011.

Curlin, F. A., Lantos, J. D., Roach, C. J., Religious Characteristics of U. S. Physicians: A National Survey, J Gen Intern Med 20(7), 629-634 retrieved from http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1490160

Ellmann, E., Tending to Spirituality in the Workplace (2001) Presence: The Journal of Spiritual Directors International, Jun 2001, pp46-53 retrieved from www.sdiworld.org

Fosarelli, P., Medicine, Spirituality, and Patient Care. JAMA, August 20,2008, 300(7), 836-838.

Grossoehme, D. H., Ragsdale, J. R., McHenry, C. L. (2007). Pediatrician Characteristics Associated With Attention to Spirituality and Religion in Clinical Practice. Pediatrics 119 (1), e117-e123.

Holmes, S. M., Rabow, M. W., Dibble, S. L. (2006). Screening the soul: Communication regarding spiritual concerns among primary care physicians and seriously ill patients approaching end of life. Am J Hosp palliat Care 2006: 23;25-31. retrieved from http://ajh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/25

Larimore, W.L., Duininck, M. W., Morsch, G.B. (2007). Spiritual Needs of Physicians Duringand Following a Catastrophe. Southern Medical Journal, 100(9), 940-941.

Puchalski, Christina, MD, MS, FACP and Ferrell, Betty, PhD, MA, FAAN, FPCN. “Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care: The Report of the Consensus Conference.” Journal of Palliative Medicine, Volume 12, Number 10, 2009.

Sinclair, S., Raffin, S., Pereira, J., Guebert, N. (2006). Collective Soul: The spirituality of an interdisciplinary palliative care team. Pallliative and Supportive Care (2006), 4, 13-24.

Steinhauser, K. E., Voils, C. I., Clipp, E. C., Bosworth, H. B., Christakis, N. A., Tulsky, J. A. (2006).“Are You at Peace?”
One Item to Probe Spiritual Concerns at the End of Life. Arch Intern Med, 166,101-105. http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/132/10/825

Weiner, E.L., Swain G. R., Wolf, B., Gottlieb M. (2007). A qualitative study of physicians’ own wellness-promoting practices. West j med 174 (1):19-23 retrieved from http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1071222