Product Description

A recent national survey found many serious problems within hospital chaplaincy work with chaplains often feeling marginalised by other staff or failing to understand their role. This practical and informative guide is therefore both timely and will meet and urgent need. Aimed both at newly appointed and experienced chaplains, it aims to be a primary resource offering continuing guidance on: - the role of chaplaincy in the NHS today - the spiritual dimension of illness, injury and health care - ward etiquette, assessing needs, working with other health care professionals - working in specialist areas - maternity, paediatrics, accident & emergency, geriatrics, etc - death, dying and bereavement - beliefs and practices of different faiths - professional practice: ethics, pastoral boundaries, confidentiality, record keeping, clinical audit - caseload management, supervising volunteers, education and training - a large selection of prayers and readings for routine and emergency pastoral situations, anointing and laying on of hands, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #266008 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
MARK COBB was previously Senior Chaplain and is now ...t the Central Sheffield University Hospitals. He is an honorary lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sheffield and a Research Associate of the Lincoln Theological Institute at Sheffield. He is involved in the training of hospital chaplains and has written a number of academic texts in this area.

Customer Reviews

Thanks heavens for this!
There has been so little written about chaplaincy generally and healthcare chaplains specifically that I was thrilled to see this book published. I was even happier when I read it! Not only does Mark Cobb set down much of the oral tradition of chaplaincy but he takes us beyond that and gives practical advice as to what the artifice of chaplaincy is all about. There is much for established chaplains, as well as newcomers, to think about in this book. Perhaps a sequel might relate something of the history of chaplaincy and what its place might be in the Church of the future. This book is to be highly recommended to all interested in this area (NHS managers, professions allied to chaplaincy, Church leaders etc) not just chaplains themselves.