CHAPLAINCY AND HEALTHCARE

Chaplaincy and Healthcare

Abstract

Many people experience a significant change to their physical, psychological and social situation in life: pain, insecurity, fear and alienation from familiar surroundings when admitted in a hospital. The partially covered health beliefs of modern society threaten the sense of belief and self- esteem of any individual. In addition, an increasingly economical oriented health policy means that treatments can be seen in terms of affordability. Given the diverse experiences about the vulnerability of life, people ask existential questions about the meaning of illness and suffering, according to the meaning of life.

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Church Run Hospitals3

Partnership with other Professions3

Biblical Theological Justification4

The Mission of Jesus5

Self-understanding of the Chaplaincy6

Tasks of the Chaplaincy7

Patients7

Members8

Staff8

Cooperation8

Personal Counseling8

Liturgy9

Institution Hospital10

Institutional Church10

Freelancers11

Ecumenism12

Quality Assurance12

Conclusion13

End Notes14

Chaplaincy and Healthcare

Introduction

Hospitals the in church are an essential part of health care. Today they exist in a secular society with the added challenge of Christian values ??for reinforced economic constraints. This is attempted in the development of models on which confessional hospitals are being designed increasingly.

Church Run Hospitals

Hospitals in church are an essential part of health care. Today they exist in a secular society with the added challenge of their Christian values ??- to accentuate again evident - for reinforced economic constraints. This is attempted in the development of models in which the confessional hospitals are increasingly adding to Christian contribution. This particularly concerns the quality of pastoral care offered at the hospital.

Partnership with other Professions

Chaplaincy is done in a technically sophisticated and complex system in which they must prove themselves. She wants to work in partnership with other professional groups in the hospital. This cooperation is important that it respects the science of man influenced the medical and economic principles of a modern hospital. This respect is the basis for cooperation, its complementarily and fruitful dialogue. For their pastoral activity, they must take "place" and free space in the system. As it is their job to accompany people in many critical situations. Legal Status of Hospital Chaplaincy

The Catholic chaplaincy at the hospital is enshrined in the concordat; this guarantees the right of free access to the patients' exercise of the sacred ministry "(Article XVI).

The Hospitals Act 1993 provides in 5a that pastoral care "must be available at the request of patients," where such care is possible. In local state law is the patient's right to religious assistance (e.g. Vienna Hospital Act 1995 s17a, paragraph 2, lit. L). Also the patients right to die with dignity and contact with family is anchored.

The country's laws or treaties of the country or a community with each diocese also allow the appointment of ministers by the diocese, providing rooms (chapel premises) and inventory by the hospital carrier. The appointment of religious personnel is made by the church employer. There are already forms of co-financing by the hospital authority.

Biblical Theological Justification

Pastoral care in the hospital assumes that the revelation is an event with two aspects: God reveals himself in the historical mediation, handed down in the ...