George Handzo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 7112013 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | George Handzo |
| NOMBRES | George |
| APELLIDO | Handzo |
| FIRMA | HANDZO G |
| AFILIACIONES | HealthCare Chaplaincy Network |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6683-7303 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Preliminary Evaluation of a Core Knowledge Test for Certification of Health Care Chaplains
This article describes the rationale, evolution, implementation, and evaluation of a process for testing core knowledge in health care chaplaincy certification. The process developed by the Spiritual Care Association uses online testing of evidence-based core knowledge developed with several expert advisory committees. The process seems to have acceptable validity, reliability, feasibility and usability and should be considered as a component to …
Chaplaincy in the outpatient setting-getting from here to there
One of the most evident trends in US health care and health care generally in the developed world is that more and more care is shifting to outpatient settings. This change opens up substantial opportunities, and in many cases, expectations for chaplains to extend the breadth of the care they provide in any health system. However, it also brings many challenges. This paper describes the journey of four very different inpatient chaplaincy services…
National Consensus Project’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, Fourth Edition
The Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, fourth edition were recently published. Through the involvement of the Association of Professional Chaplains and the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network, this is the first time that any chaplains have been an official party to the development of these guidelines. The expectation set by the guidelines is that all health care professionals (including all chaplains) caring for people living wit…
A New Paradigm for Testing Clinical Competence in Chaplaincy Certification
This article describes the rationale, evolution, implementation, and evaluation of a process for testing clinical competence in health care chaplaincy certification. The process developed by the Spiritual Care Association uses Zoom technology, simulated patient actors, and evidence-based behaviors. Evaluation of the process by users has been very positive. The process seems to have acceptable validity, reliability, and usability and should be con…
Time to follow the evidence – Spiritual care in health care
International Study of Chaplains’ Attitudes About Research
An online survey was conducted by twelve professional chaplain organizations to assess chaplains' attitudes about and involvement in research. A total of 2,092 chaplains from 23 countries responded to the survey. Over 80% thought research was definitely important and nearly 70% thought chaplains should definitely be research literate. Just over 40% said they regularly read research articles and almost 60% said they occasionally did. The responden…
Communicating Chaplains’ Care
Chaplaincy care is different for every patient; a growing challenge is to ensure that electronic health records function to support personalized care. While ICU health care teams have advanced clinical practice guidelines to identify and integrate relevant aspects of the patient's story into whole person care, recommendations for documentation are rare. This qualitative study of over 400 free-text EHR notes offers unique insight into current use …
The Differential Effects of Chaplain Interventions on Patient Satisfaction
There is an acute need to define the specific skills that make chaplains integral to the healthcare team. This prospective study attempts to identify those skills that may be specific to chaplains, for whom no other member of the health care team has similar training, and to examine if these skills have a differential effect on patient satisfaction. A total of 59 interventions were identified and grouped into 10 categories by focus groups compris…
Relationship Between Chaplain Visits and Patient Satisfaction
This prospective study investigated the relationship between chaplain visits and patient satisfaction, as measured by Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) and Press Ganey surveys from 8,978 patients who had been discharged from a tertiary care hospital. Controlling for patients' age, gender, race, ethnicity, language, education, faith, general health status, and medical conditions, chaplain visits increased th…
The Religion of “I Don’t Know”
The goal of this pilot study was to identify naturally occurring, spiritually relevant conversations and elucidate challenges for nurses in home hospice. We examined naturalistic communication data collected during nurse hospice visits with cancer patients and their family caregivers. Using deductive content analysis, guided by Consensus Conference spiritual categories and definition, categorical themes were identified. Thirty-three visits to sev…
Outcomes for Professional Health Care Chaplaincy
Health care in industrialized countries is increasingly focused on outcomes (Department of Health, 2013). The reasons for this focus are complex and contextualized but adopting this new currency is
A Methodological Analysis of Chaplaincy Research
The present article presents a comprehensive review and analysis of quantitative research conducted in the United States on chaplaincy and closely related topics published between 2000 and 2009. A combined search strategy identified 49 quantitative studies in 13 journals. The analysis focuses on the methodological sophistication of the studies, compared to earlier research on chaplaincy and pastoral care. Cross-sectional surveys of convenience sa…
Testing the Efficacy of Chaplaincy Care
The current article reviews the research conducted in the United States on the clinical practice of chaplains with patients and family members, referrals to chaplains, patient satisfaction with chaplaincy services, and the limited literature on the efficacy of chaplain interventions. It also discusses the methodological limitations of studies conducted on these topics and makes suggestions for improving future chaplaincy research. The authors con…
To Pray or Not to Pray
Analysis of Covariance was conducted on quantitative data collected by chaplains from January 2005 to December 2008. Data from 82 Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant chaplains, consisting of 53 CPE students and 29 professional chaplains were used in this study. Overall, chaplains exhibited a statistically significant higher rate of prayer with patients from their own religion (religious concordance) than they did with patients of different religions…
Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care
A Consensus Conference sponsored by the Archstone Foundation of Long Beach, California, was held February 17-18, 2009, in Pasadena, California. The Conference was based on the belief that spiritual care is a fundamental component of quality palliative care. This document and the conference recommendations it includes builds upon prior literature, the National Consensus Project Guidelines, and the National Quality Forum Preferred Practices and Con…
Selected Findings from the “New York” and the “Metropolitan” Chaplaincy Studies
In recent years, the chaplain-to-patient ratio in U.S. hospitals has remained roughly the same while the role of the hospital chaplain has expanded. We compared data on 33,000 chaplain visits from the New York Chaplaincy Study (1994-1996) with 58,000 chaplain visits from the Metropolitan Chaplaincy Study (2005-2006), in order to explore whether changes in both the role of the healthcare chaplain and changes in the healthcare system itself have af…
What Do Chaplains Really Do? II. Interventions in the New York Chaplaincy Study
The current study analyzes data from 30,995 chaplain visits with patients and families that were part of the New York Chaplaincy Study. The data were collected at 13 healthcare institutions in the Greater New York City area from 1994-1996. Seventeen chaplain interventions were recorded: nine that were religious or spiritual in nature, and eight that were more general or not specifically religious. Chaplains used religious/spiritual interventions,…
Best Practices in Professional Pastoral Care
Consensus is developing in the field of professional pastoral eare around the several best practiees. The discipline is becoming a multi-faith, referral serviee. Generally, it is no longer the case that particular clergy come in and visit ali of the patients of their faith tradition. This model does not make efficient use of pastoral eare resources and does not promote integration into the health care team which is so essential to the continuity …
Pastoral Care Staffing and Productivity
(2005). Pastoral Care Staffing and Productivity: More than Ratios. Chaplaincy Today: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 3-10.
Factors Affecting Healthcare Chaplaincy and the Provision of Pastoral Care in the United States
Science and Ministry
The professional pastoral care community generates a great deal of heat but precious little light during its debate about the use of scientific process in the practice of ministry. This result is due in large part to confusion about the basic tasks and processes of science and its role in both organized religion and the current health care environment. Clergy have often not understood that science and faith are different enterprises, that science…
The HealthCare Chaplaincy, Inc., New York, New York
The HealthCare Chaplaincy is a not-for-profit center for health-related pastoral care, clinical education and research. With a professional staff of 24 chaplains and 11 CPE Supervisors, "The Chaplaincy," as it is called, has developed a multifaith, multi-institutional "Partnership Model" providing pastoral care leadership for a growing number of medical and health-related facilities (see the appendix for a current list). At the same time, these i…
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Where Do Chaplains Fit in the World of Cancer Care
Finally, what are we about in modern chaplaincy? We have successfully shed our old image as a profession that is more tolerated than valued as a part of the team. We have become as skilled in interacting sensitively with patients and family members as any member of the health care team. We have become integrated professionals in the modern hospital. While maintaining these skills and that place, we need to reappropriate some of the unique feature…
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Where Do Chaplains Fit in the World of Cancer Care
Finally, what are we about in modern chaplaincy? We have successfully shed our old image as a profession that is more tolerated than valued as a part of the team. We have become as skilled in interacting sensitively with patients and family members as any member of the health care team. We have become integrated professionals in the modern hospital. While maintaining these skills and that place, we need to reappropriate some of the unique feature…
Response to
The HealthCare Chaplaincy, Inc., New York, New York
The HealthCare Chaplaincy is a not-for-profit center for health-related pastoral care, clinical education and research. With a professional staff of 24 chaplains and 11 CPE Supervisors, "The Chaplaincy," as it is called, has developed a multifaith, multi-institutional "Partnership Model" providing pastoral care leadership for a growing number of medical and health-related facilities (see the appendix for a current list). At the same time, these i…
Science and Ministry
The professional pastoral care community generates a great deal of heat but precious little light during its debate about the use of scientific process in the practice of ministry. This result is due in large part to confusion about the basic tasks and processes of science and its role in both organized religion and the current health care environment. Clergy have often not understood that science and faith are different enterprises, that science…
Factors Affecting Healthcare Chaplaincy and the Provision of Pastoral Care in the United States
Pastoral Care Staffing and Productivity
(2005). Pastoral Care Staffing and Productivity: More than Ratios. Chaplaincy Today: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 3-10.
Best Practices in Professional Pastoral Care
Consensus is developing in the field of professional pastoral eare around the several best practiees. The discipline is becoming a multi-faith, referral serviee. Generally, it is no longer the case that particular clergy come in and visit ali of the patients of their faith tradition. This model does not make efficient use of pastoral eare resources and does not promote integration into the health care team which is so essential to the continuity …
What Do Chaplains Really Do? II. Interventions in the New York Chaplaincy Study
The current study analyzes data from 30,995 chaplain visits with patients and families that were part of the New York Chaplaincy Study. The data were collected at 13 healthcare institutions in the Greater New York City area from 1994-1996. Seventeen chaplain interventions were recorded: nine that were religious or spiritual in nature, and eight that were more general or not specifically religious. Chaplains used religious/spiritual interventions,…
Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care
A Consensus Conference sponsored by the Archstone Foundation of Long Beach, California, was held February 17-18, 2009, in Pasadena, California. The Conference was based on the belief that spiritual care is a fundamental component of quality palliative care. This document and the conference recommendations it includes builds upon prior literature, the National Consensus Project Guidelines, and the National Quality Forum Preferred Practices and Con…
Selected Findings from the “New York” and the “Metropolitan” Chaplaincy Studies
In recent years, the chaplain-to-patient ratio in U.S. hospitals has remained roughly the same while the role of the hospital chaplain has expanded. We compared data on 33,000 chaplain visits from the New York Chaplaincy Study (1994-1996) with 58,000 chaplain visits from the Metropolitan Chaplaincy Study (2005-2006), in order to explore whether changes in both the role of the healthcare chaplain and changes in the healthcare system itself have af…
To Pray or Not to Pray
Analysis of Covariance was conducted on quantitative data collected by chaplains from January 2005 to December 2008. Data from 82 Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant chaplains, consisting of 53 CPE students and 29 professional chaplains were used in this study. Overall, chaplains exhibited a statistically significant higher rate of prayer with patients from their own religion (religious concordance) than they did with patients of different religions…
A Methodological Analysis of Chaplaincy Research
The present article presents a comprehensive review and analysis of quantitative research conducted in the United States on chaplaincy and closely related topics published between 2000 and 2009. A combined search strategy identified 49 quantitative studies in 13 journals. The analysis focuses on the methodological sophistication of the studies, compared to earlier research on chaplaincy and pastoral care. Cross-sectional surveys of convenience sa…
Testing the Efficacy of Chaplaincy Care
The current article reviews the research conducted in the United States on the clinical practice of chaplains with patients and family members, referrals to chaplains, patient satisfaction with chaplaincy services, and the limited literature on the efficacy of chaplain interventions. It also discusses the methodological limitations of studies conducted on these topics and makes suggestions for improving future chaplaincy research. The authors con…
Outcomes for Professional Health Care Chaplaincy
Health care in industrialized countries is increasingly focused on outcomes (Department of Health, 2013). The reasons for this focus are complex and contextualized but adopting this new currency is
Relationship Between Chaplain Visits and Patient Satisfaction
This prospective study investigated the relationship between chaplain visits and patient satisfaction, as measured by Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) and Press Ganey surveys from 8,978 patients who had been discharged from a tertiary care hospital. Controlling for patients' age, gender, race, ethnicity, language, education, faith, general health status, and medical conditions, chaplain visits increased th…
The Religion of “I Don’t Know”
The goal of this pilot study was to identify naturally occurring, spiritually relevant conversations and elucidate challenges for nurses in home hospice. We examined naturalistic communication data collected during nurse hospice visits with cancer patients and their family caregivers. Using deductive content analysis, guided by Consensus Conference spiritual categories and definition, categorical themes were identified. Thirty-three visits to sev…
Communicating Chaplains’ Care
Chaplaincy care is different for every patient; a growing challenge is to ensure that electronic health records function to support personalized care. While ICU health care teams have advanced clinical practice guidelines to identify and integrate relevant aspects of the patient's story into whole person care, recommendations for documentation are rare. This qualitative study of over 400 free-text EHR notes offers unique insight into current use …
The Differential Effects of Chaplain Interventions on Patient Satisfaction
There is an acute need to define the specific skills that make chaplains integral to the healthcare team. This prospective study attempts to identify those skills that may be specific to chaplains, for whom no other member of the health care team has similar training, and to examine if these skills have a differential effect on patient satisfaction. A total of 59 interventions were identified and grouped into 10 categories by focus groups compris…
International Study of Chaplains’ Attitudes About Research
An online survey was conducted by twelve professional chaplain organizations to assess chaplains' attitudes about and involvement in research. A total of 2,092 chaplains from 23 countries responded to the survey. Over 80% thought research was definitely important and nearly 70% thought chaplains should definitely be research literate. Just over 40% said they regularly read research articles and almost 60% said they occasionally did. The responden…
Time to follow the evidence – Spiritual care in health care
National Consensus Project’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, Fourth Edition
The Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, fourth edition were recently published. Through the involvement of the Association of Professional Chaplains and the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network, this is the first time that any chaplains have been an official party to the development of these guidelines. The expectation set by the guidelines is that all health care professionals (including all chaplains) caring for people living wit…
A New Paradigm for Testing Clinical Competence in Chaplaincy Certification
This article describes the rationale, evolution, implementation, and evaluation of a process for testing clinical competence in health care chaplaincy certification. The process developed by the Spiritual Care Association uses Zoom technology, simulated patient actors, and evidence-based behaviors. Evaluation of the process by users has been very positive. The process seems to have acceptable validity, reliability, and usability and should be con…
Preliminary Evaluation of a Core Knowledge Test for Certification of Health Care Chaplains
This article describes the rationale, evolution, implementation, and evaluation of a process for testing core knowledge in health care chaplaincy certification. The process developed by the Spiritual Care Association uses online testing of evidence-based core knowledge developed with several expert advisory committees. The process seems to have acceptable validity, reliability, feasibility and usability and should be considered as a component to …
Chaplaincy in the outpatient setting-getting from here to there
One of the most evident trends in US health care and health care generally in the developed world is that more and more care is shifting to outpatient settings. This change opens up substantial opportunities, and in many cases, expectations for chaplains to extend the breadth of the care they provide in any health system. However, it also brings many challenges. This paper describes the journey of four very different inpatient chaplaincy services…
Medicine (21 obras) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (20 obras) · Nursing (19 obras) · Psychology (16 obras) · Health care (14 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Pastoral care (12 obras) · Religion, Society, and Development (11 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (7 obras)