This personal reflection emphasizes the potential benefits of poetry for interfaith spiritual and pastoral support of medical professionals. Details are provided for the implementation of several successful practices, including an Intensive Care Unit Poetry Basket, Portable Poetry with Aromatherapy Towelette Hand Blessings, and Presenting Poems to Nurse Practice Council. The references include the poetry used in the spiritual care activities and the author also provided a helpful "Further Resources" section.
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Description One of my favorite themes in medicine is the concept of identity. Medicine is layered. It is continually saving lives, expanding in capabilities, and recruiting new students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Humanit
August 2024
Capilano University, North Vancouver, BC, Canada.
South African writer Phaswane Mpe (1970-2004) is often canonized and memorialized as a brave truth-teller who broke the silence on HIV/AIDS in the context of government silence and denial. And yet Mpe's writings-including poetry, short stories, a novel, and scholarly criticism-contemplate illness as a problem for truth and representation in works that linger in silence and ambiguity. This article analyses the tension between silence and speech in Mpe's creative writing in response to HIV/AIDS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pastoral Care Counsel
September 2024
Department of Pastoral Care, Nemours Children's Health, Wilmington, DE, USA.
Reflections from a pediatric chaplain on the irregularity of miracles with help from a Victorian author and an atheist-humanist colleague.
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March 2024
Spiritual Care Department, Interfaith Chaplain at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
This personal reflection emphasizes the potential benefits of poetry for interfaith spiritual and pastoral support of medical professionals. Details are provided for the implementation of several successful practices, including an Intensive Care Unit Poetry Basket, Portable Poetry with Aromatherapy Towelette Hand Blessings, and Presenting Poems to Nurse Practice Council. The references include the poetry used in the spiritual care activities and the author also provided a helpful "Further Resources" section.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pastoral Care Counsel
March 2024
School of Nursing, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
In this poetic work, journaling is shared as a means to navigate grief. The call is to spiritual leaders to encourage those grieving to be creative in their journey. This is a tool to support understanding the experience of grief as a healthcare provider.
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