Interfaith Collaboration: Boundary Crossing in a Participatory Action Research Project with Health Care Chaplains in The Netherlands.

This article explores the challenges faced by a multifaith chaplaincy team in a Dutch health care organization when searching for a shared professional identity regarding the role of worldview and religion. Using boundary theory, we show how the diverse worldviews and the contradictory visions on their role for chaplaincy's professional identity led to misunderstandings and conflict. However, open and respectful dialogue about these differences helped clarify disagreements and identify common ground.

Enhancing the integration of chaplains within the healthcare team A qualitative analysis of a survey study among healthcare chaplains.

Background: Spiritual well-being is considered an important component of health and is increasingly integrated at all levels of healthcare. Delivering good integrated spiritual care requires coordination between different colleagues in which interprofessional collaboration is crucial. However, this interprofessional collaboration is not always self-evident.

Healthcare chaplains' conflicting and ambivalent positions regarding meaning in life and worldview.

Western society is increasingly a spiritual society, but not so much a society that draws on clearly delineated religious or worldview pillars anymore. Within healthcare, there's a growing attention to the spiritual dimension of health and the collaborative spiritual care that is needed for person-centered care. This changing religious/worldview and healthcare landscape is influencing healthcare chaplaincy.

From fact to meaning: Care practitioners' hermeneutic competence development in residential care for persons with dementia.

In long-term care for people with dementia, person-centred care (PCC) is widely promoted as an approach that contributes to the well-being of persons in psycho-geriatric care. The goal of PCC is to acknowledge the personhood of residents and to indicate the responsibility of others to ensure the personhood of persons with dementia. In 2016 and 2018, qualitative empirical research was conducted with the purpose to enhance PCC and meaningful care.

"God Hey, Now I've Been Through Something": Moral Resilience of Coordinators in Voluntary Palliative Terminal Care.

Moral distress arises in the dynamic relationship between personal factors and the organizational and political contexts of care work. Whether moral distress actually leads to a reduced well-being of health care workers or a reduced quality of care in the sector depends to a large extent on how moral tensions are dealt with, also called moral resilience, and the protective conditions available. Research about moral distress and moral resilience within the field of health care has concentrated on staff nurses and physicians.

The development of moral sensitivity of nursing students: A scoping review.

Moral sensitivity is known to be the starting point for moral competence and even is a core concept in the curricula for bachelor's-level nursing students in the Netherlands. While the development of moral sensitivity in nursing is commonly agreed to be important, there is no clear understanding of how to develop moral sensitivity through nursing education and what components of nursing education contribute to moral sensitivity. Studies on educational interventions could build knowledge about what works in developing moral sensitivity and how to achieve this outcome.

Patient autonomy in home care: Nurses' relational practices of responsibility.

Background: Over the last decade, new healthcare policies are transforming healthcare practices towards independent living and self-care of older people and people with a chronic disease or disability within the community. For professional caregivers in home care, such as nurses, this requires a shift from a caring attitude towards the promotion of patient autonomy.

Aim: To explore how nurses in home care deal with the transformation towards fostering patient autonomy and self-care.

A Kaleidoscope of Hope: Exploring Experiences of Hope Among Service Users and Informal Carers in Health Care Contexts.

Background: There is a large and diverse literature on the concept of hope in health care. This literature covers a broad spectrum of perspectives, from philosophical, conceptual, and theoretical analysis through to attempts at measuring the concept of hope with differing health care users.

Aims: To explore the concept of hope through the secondary analysis of existing data sets, with the intention of understanding hope in the context of person-centeredness.

"Take control or lean back?" Barriers to practicing empowerment in health promotion.

During the past few decades, health promotion has increasingly focused on the empowerment of deprived communities and is shifting from a top-down approach to a participatory practice, aimed at helping people to gain control over their lives and health. Previous research shows that this shift is not without problems. In the Netherlands, an action learning program on empowerment was developed to help health promotion practitioners in this transition.