DonateIntersection of Palliative Care and Spiritual Care
Meet Simon Harrison, who has been involved in Healthcare Chaplaincy for 25 years. He is currently the ‘pastoral care lead’ and ‘Lead Chaplain,’ at the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital, and the Exeter ‘Nightingale hospital.’
His local responsibilities include leading on End of Life Chaplaincy, both strategically on their end-of-life group and as a member of the weekly palliative MDT. Nationally he is the President of the College of Health Care Chaplains (CHCC)- the largest professional body for health and social care Chaplaincy in the UK.
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Meet Nahla Madan a physician on palliative care team at King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam KFSHD, Saudi Arabia. She has been working as a consultant physician in palliative medicine for eleven years and in family medicine in 30 years.
Her team consists of physicians, palliative nurses, nurse coordinators, a spiritual advisor, a social worker, a psychologist, clinical pharmacists, a pain management team, and a great palliative home care team. The team cares for a wide geographical area, approximately more than three million people.
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Meet Helma Aniceta-van Maanen . She has worked as a chaplain/spiritual counselor in a hospital in the Hague, the Netherlands, since April 2020. Her areas of responsibility are direct care for patients, clinical lectures for caregivers on topics of the meaning of life, intercultural care, spirituality in palliative care, and I am chair of the ethical committee.
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Meet Heather Potter, a Canberra Region Hub Chaplain for Uniting in the Australian Capital Territory. She has worked in chaplaincy for the past 13 years and looks after the well-being and pastoral and spiritual care of over 340 residents, family, and staff.
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Meet Excyna Chakwawa, a Nurse Midwife Technician in Malawi at the Castel Malawi Company. I have responsibilities in providing nursing care, psychological care, and counseling, and I have been working in different hospitals during my clinical practice. I have experience in palliative care, where we provide holistic and spiritual care to our patients.
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Meet Fadi Abu-Farsakh, a hospice and palliative medicine fellow in West Michigan, United States. He has worked in the field of palliative care since 2014 in both Jordan and the United Sates and in different settings including hospice, inpatient, outpatient, and home care. He takes his multicultural experiences and is able to tailor patient needs based on their preferences.
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Carole Clarke is a full-time Healthcare Chaplain in Aberdeen, Scotland, where she divides her time between the acute hospital and the palliative care unit. Clarke is relatively new to chaplaincy, having been in post just under three years. Prior to her Chaplaincy, Clarke was a freelance music therapist in clinical settings.
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Maria Witjaksono has been working in Palliative Care from 2000 but became a palliative care physician in 2008. She works at the National Cancer Hospital in Jakarta.
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Ayuba Doroh works as a palliative care officer in a non-governmental organization based in Abuja –Nigeria. I have been providing palliative care service to People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) for the past 10 years now.
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Victoria O. Suberu is a Registered Nurse, who recently graduated from the oncology nursing program in Abuja FCT in Nigeria. She has been working as a registered nurse for 14 years in Nigeria.
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Kresimir Loncar is a specialist in radiotherapy and oncology (clinical oncology) working as a physician on a palliative care team at the University Hospital Center Zagreb and UHC Maribor
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Jessica Seufert has worked as a Hospice Chaplain/Bereavement Coordinator for over twelve years in Denver, Colorado. She is a certified Clinical Chaplain/Pastoral, has a Master's in Psychology, with specializations in Death & Dying and earned an equivalent to a Master's of Divinity (MDiv).
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Meet Claire Oppert, a concert cellist, teacher, and author. She works as an art therapist with people suffering from autism (1997-2003, Centre Adam Shelton, Saint-Denis), with patients with dementia.
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Meet Caroline Tigere, a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner who works at Lawrence General Hospital. I have been working in palliative care for over 10 years. She helps families establish goals of care and manage symptoms such as pain, shortness of breath, nausea, etc.
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Meet Beatrijs Hofland, a spiritual counselor who works in an institution for elderly care in the south of The Netherlands. Palliative care has been the center of focus and attention. In The Netherlands, you can either work as a general spiritual counselor or as a chaplain with a connection or mission from your own denomination.
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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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