Christina M Puchalski
Biographic Data
| ID | 7112012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina M Puchalski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina M |
| FAMILY NAME | Puchalski |
| SIGNATURE | PUCHALSKI C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Adaptation and Preliminary Assessment of the Italian Version of the Fica© Spiritual History Tool in the context of End-Of-Life Cancer Patients
Spirituality is widely recognized to play an important role in the experience of terminally ill cancer patients, and several studies have shown that spiritual dimensions in their care can significantly enhance their quality of life and emotional well-being. The FICA© Spiritual History Tool, developed by Dr. Christina Puchalski, provides clinicians with a framework for addressing patients' spiritual histories. The aim of this study was to translat…
Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health
Importance: Despite growing evidence, the role of spirituality in serious illness and health has not been systematically assessed. Objective: To review evidence concerning spirituality in serious illness and health and to identify implications for patient care and health outcomes. Evidence Review: Searches of PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science identified articles with evidence addressing spirituality in serious illness or health, published Janu…
Implementing quality improvement efforts in spiritual care
The Interprofessional Spiritual Care Curriculum (ISPEC) was created to train interdisciplinary health care teams to recognize and address the spiritual needs of seriously or chronically ill patients. The curriculum, in a train-the-trainer format, employs didactic presentations, discussions, lab sessions, skill demonstrations, and video clips. In course applications, participants were required to submit goals to achieve and demonstrate institution…
Redefining Palliative Care—A New Consensus-Based Definition
CONTEXT: The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care developed a consensus-based definition of palliative care (PC) that focuses on the relief of serious health-related suffering, a concept put forward by the Lancet Commission Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this article is to present the research behind the new definition. METHODS: The three-phased consensus process involved he…
Training Physicians as Healers
Spirituality is increasingly recognized as an essential element of patient care and health. It is often during illness that patients experience deep spiritual and existential suffering. With clinicians' care and compassion, patients are able to find solace and healing through their spiritual beliefs and values. This article chronicles a history of spirituality and health education, including the development of consensus-based clinical guidelines …
Global Network for Spirituality and Health (GNSAH)
This paper describes the rationale for, and background to, the development of the Global Network for Spirituality and Health.Footnote1 It outlines the aims, goals, objectives, activities and next steps of the organization and highlights the transformative potential of spirituality in healthcare systems that currently do not value the importance of service to others as a fundamental component of healthcare practice. It notes that the empowerment o…
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…
Integrating Spirituality as a Key Component of Patient Care
Patient care frequently focuses on physical aspects of disease management, with variable attention given to spiritual needs. And yet, patients indicate that spiritual suffering adds to distress associated with illness. Spirituality, broadly defined as that which gives meaning and purpose to a person's life and connectedness to the significant or sacred, often becomes a central issue for patients. Growing evidence demonstrates that spirituality is…
Spirituality and Health
Spirituality has played a role in health care for centuries, but by the early 20th century, technological advances in diagnosis and treatment overshadowed the more human element of medicine. In response, a core group of medical academics and practitioners launched a movement to reclaim medicine's spiritual roots, defining spirituality broadly as a search for meaning, purpose, and connectedness. This commentary describes the history of the field o…
Improving the Spiritual Dimension of Whole Person Care
Two conferences, Creating More Compassionate Systems of Care (November 2012) and On Improving the Spiritual Dimension of Whole Person Care: The Transformational Role of Compassion, Love and Forgiveness in Health Care (January 2013), were convened with the goals of reaching consensus on approaches to the integration of spirituality into health care structures at all levels and development of strategies to create more compassionate systems of care.…
Spirituality and Health Care in Iran
The Relationship between Medicine, Spirituality and Religion
Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare
Spirituality and healthcare is an emerging field of research. Healthcare organisations and practitioners are therefore challenged to understand and address spirituality, to develop their knowledge and implement effective policy. This reference text on the subject provides a comprehensive overview of key topics.
Spirituality in Medical Education
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…
Physicians and Patients’ Spirituality
Spirituality has become an increasingly prevalent topic in current models of health care. More than 75 percent of medical schools teach topics related to spirituality and health, and hospitals are beginning to develop spirituality programs to increase the delivery of compassionate care [1, 2]. Spirituality can be defined as "the aspect of humanity that refers to the way individuals seek and express meaning and purpose, and the way they experience…
Spirituality and the Care of Patients at the End-of-Life
Spirituality is an essential component of the care of patients with serious illness and those that are dying. Dame Cicely Saunders developed the hospice movement based on the biopsychosocialspiritual model of care, in which all four dimensions are important in the care of patients. Of all the models of care, hospice and palliative care recognize the importance of spiritual issues in the care of patients and their families. The National Consensus …
Spirituality and religion in patients with HIV/Aids
A Review of Spiritual and Religious Measures in Nursing Research Journals
The Role of Spirituality in Health Care
(2001). The Role of Spirituality in Health Care. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 352-357.
Integrating Spirituality as a Key Component of Patient Care
Patient care frequently focuses on physical aspects of disease management, with variable attention given to spiritual needs. And yet, patients indicate that spiritual suffering adds to distress associated with illness. Spirituality, broadly defined as that which gives meaning and purpose to a person's life and connectedness to the significant or sacred, often becomes a central issue for patients. Growing evidence demonstrates that spirituality is…
The Role of Spirituality in Health Care
(2001). The Role of Spirituality in Health Care. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 352-357.
A Review of Spiritual and Religious Measures in Nursing Research Journals
Spirituality and religion in patients with HIV/Aids
Spirituality and the Care of Patients at the End-of-Life
Spirituality is an essential component of the care of patients with serious illness and those that are dying. Dame Cicely Saunders developed the hospice movement based on the biopsychosocialspiritual model of care, in which all four dimensions are important in the care of patients. Of all the models of care, hospice and palliative care recognize the importance of spiritual issues in the care of patients and their families. The National Consensus …
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…
Physicians and Patients’ Spirituality
Spirituality has become an increasingly prevalent topic in current models of health care. More than 75 percent of medical schools teach topics related to spirituality and health, and hospitals are beginning to develop spirituality programs to increase the delivery of compassionate care [1, 2]. Spirituality can be defined as "the aspect of humanity that refers to the way individuals seek and express meaning and purpose, and the way they experience…
Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare
Spirituality and healthcare is an emerging field of research. Healthcare organisations and practitioners are therefore challenged to understand and address spirituality, to develop their knowledge and implement effective policy. This reference text on the subject provides a comprehensive overview of key topics.
Spirituality in Medical Education
Spirituality and Health
Spirituality has played a role in health care for centuries, but by the early 20th century, technological advances in diagnosis and treatment overshadowed the more human element of medicine. In response, a core group of medical academics and practitioners launched a movement to reclaim medicine's spiritual roots, defining spirituality broadly as a search for meaning, purpose, and connectedness. This commentary describes the history of the field o…
Improving the Spiritual Dimension of Whole Person Care
Two conferences, Creating More Compassionate Systems of Care (November 2012) and On Improving the Spiritual Dimension of Whole Person Care: The Transformational Role of Compassion, Love and Forgiveness in Health Care (January 2013), were convened with the goals of reaching consensus on approaches to the integration of spirituality into health care structures at all levels and development of strategies to create more compassionate systems of care.…
Spirituality and Health Care in Iran
The Relationship between Medicine, Spirituality and Religion
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…
Integrating Spirituality as a Key Component of Patient Care
Patient care frequently focuses on physical aspects of disease management, with variable attention given to spiritual needs. And yet, patients indicate that spiritual suffering adds to distress associated with illness. Spirituality, broadly defined as that which gives meaning and purpose to a person's life and connectedness to the significant or sacred, often becomes a central issue for patients. Growing evidence demonstrates that spirituality is…
Global Network for Spirituality and Health (GNSAH)
This paper describes the rationale for, and background to, the development of the Global Network for Spirituality and Health.Footnote1 It outlines the aims, goals, objectives, activities and next steps of the organization and highlights the transformative potential of spirituality in healthcare systems that currently do not value the importance of service to others as a fundamental component of healthcare practice. It notes that the empowerment o…
Training Physicians as Healers
Spirituality is increasingly recognized as an essential element of patient care and health. It is often during illness that patients experience deep spiritual and existential suffering. With clinicians' care and compassion, patients are able to find solace and healing through their spiritual beliefs and values. This article chronicles a history of spirituality and health education, including the development of consensus-based clinical guidelines …
Redefining Palliative Care—A New Consensus-Based Definition
CONTEXT: The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care developed a consensus-based definition of palliative care (PC) that focuses on the relief of serious health-related suffering, a concept put forward by the Lancet Commission Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this article is to present the research behind the new definition. METHODS: The three-phased consensus process involved he…
Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health
Importance: Despite growing evidence, the role of spirituality in serious illness and health has not been systematically assessed. Objective: To review evidence concerning spirituality in serious illness and health and to identify implications for patient care and health outcomes. Evidence Review: Searches of PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science identified articles with evidence addressing spirituality in serious illness or health, published Janu…
Implementing quality improvement efforts in spiritual care
The Interprofessional Spiritual Care Curriculum (ISPEC) was created to train interdisciplinary health care teams to recognize and address the spiritual needs of seriously or chronically ill patients. The curriculum, in a train-the-trainer format, employs didactic presentations, discussions, lab sessions, skill demonstrations, and video clips. In course applications, participants were required to submit goals to achieve and demonstrate institution…
Cultural Adaptation and Preliminary Assessment of the Italian Version of the Fica© Spiritual History Tool in the context of End-Of-Life Cancer Patients
Spirituality is widely recognized to play an important role in the experience of terminally ill cancer patients, and several studies have shown that spiritual dimensions in their care can significantly enhance their quality of life and emotional well-being. The FICA© Spiritual History Tool, developed by Dr. Christina Puchalski, provides clinicians with a framework for addressing patients' spiritual histories. The aim of this study was to translat…
Medicine (19 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (19 works) · Alternative medicine (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Spirituality (15 works) · Nursing (14 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (13 works) · Health care (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (9 works)