DonateIntersection of Palliative Care and Spiritual Care
Meet Myrna Koonce, a palliative care chaplain at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. As a member of the interdisciplinary team, she assess and ministers to the spiritual care needs of all adult palliative care patients in the hospital including critical care, cardiac unit, oncology floors, neuro unit, and regular medical-surgical floors. During COVID, her team has served as a consulting service but also is in reserve as a stand-alone CMO primary team, serving all people who are dying in the hospital and cannot be moved elsewhere.
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Meet Dr. Eunice Olusoji, a medical officer involved in Palliative care research and advocacy with the Centre for Palliative care, Nigeria. Se was introduced to palliative care in 2018 and since has trained in the field. She practices palliative care in managing her patients.
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Maria Carmo Colimao has been working at St. Christopher’s Hospice in a community development scheme, Compassionate Neighbour’s, and as a volunteer Social Worker. These experiences enabled her to get her first role as a palliative social worker at Peace Hospice Care. She is in the process of transitioning to St. John’s Hospice in St. John’s Wood.
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Meet Eunice Nusetor, a registered general nurse, who is currently doing her national service at the 37 Military Hospital in Ghana. I work as a bedside nurse with continuous interactions with patients with various health-related conditions and providing quality healthcare such as monitoring patients' conditions, planning of care, and other general nursing responsibilities.
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Meet Kristin Springmeyer a chaplain ordained in the ELCA Lutheran denomination for 27 years. Her responsibilities include spiritual assessments, regular visitation, end-of-life care, collaborating with community faith groups for patient needs, participating in our teams' quality improvement committee and the medical fellowship faculty, and providing education on various spiritual care topics for hospital staff and in the community. Education examples include: Understanding Faith Traditions at End-of-Life, Spiritual Assessment Models, Pediatric Stages of Faith, and Family Spiritual Coping through Miracles.
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Meet Sasa Moslavac, a PMR specialist in the Palliative Care Department of Novi Marof at the General Hospital Varaždin, Croatia. The department has 97 beds and he is responsible for the overall management of palliative patients and a multi-professional team for 20 – 30 patients, depending on the shared workload. His previous experience includes 25 years in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. For the past 10 months he has been working in the palliative care department.
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Mansara Hassan is a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in North Texas. She has been a Nurse Practitioner for two years after having worked as a registered nurse for over four years. She was introduced to Palliative Care while completing her graduate program and had the privilege of learning from some of the leading nurse scholars in the field.
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Deborah Wilde has been in full-time healthcare chaplaincy for 14 years now. At University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay, she is the chaplaincy team leader at Furness General Hospital leading a team of sessional chaplains. She also sits on the Rapid Response for sudden and unexpected child death teams and other community ecumenical groups.
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Adiamo Adedayo is a registered public health nurse under the nursing and midwifery council of Nigeria. She has been practicing nursing for about 6 years now.
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