Collective Soul: the Spirituality of an Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team
University of Calgary PRISM: University of Calgary's Digital Repository Cumming School of Medicine Cumming School of Medicine Research & Publications 2006 Collective soul: The spirituality of an interdisciplinary palliative care team Sinclair, Shane; Raffin, Shelley; Pereira, Jose; Guebert, Nancy Sinclair, Shane, et al. (2006). Collective soul: The spirituality of an interdisciplinary palliative care team, Palliative and Supportive Care, 4. http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51513 journal article Downloaded from PRISM: https://prism.ucalgary.ca Palliative and Supportive Care ~2006!, 4, 13–24. Printed in the USA. Copyright © 2006 Cambridge University Press 1478-9515006 $16.00 DOI: 10.10170S1478951506060032 Collective soul: The spirituality of an interdisciplinary palliative care team 1 2 SHANE SINCLAIR, B.A., MDIV, PH.D.~C!, SHELLEY RAFFIN, R.N., B.SC.N., M.N., PH.D., 3 4 JOSE PEREIRA, M.B.CH.B., DA., C.C.F.P., AND NANCY GUEBERT, R.N., B.S.N., MCED. 1Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 3Palliative Medicine, Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 4Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. ~RECEIVED November 2, 2005; ACCEPTED December 13, 2005! ABSTRACT Objective: Although spirituality as it relates to patients is gaining increasing attention, less is known about how health care professionals ~HCP! experience spirituality personally or collectively in the workplace. This study explores the collective spirituality of an interdisciplinary palliative care team, by studying how individuals felt about their own spirituality, whether there was a shared sense of a team spirituality, how spirituality related to the care the team provided to patients and whether they felt that they provided spiritual care.
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