Krankenhausseelsorge
Ausgabe: 1/2010
56. Jahrgang
Zur Rolle von Klinikseelsorgern in der klinischen Ethikberatung
When ethics consultation in hospitals is required, Health Care Chaplains are very often the first to be contacted. In many hospitals they are asked to act as members of Hospital Ethics Committees (HEC), to chair the HEC or even to set one up in the first place. How they handle this and what role they can play in clinical ethics consultation depends on a number of assumptions about Pastoral Care and its institutional framework. Those challenges in the day-to-day clinical routine which have lead to an institutionalisation of ethics consultation have also triggered changes in the function and scope of Health Care Chaplaincy. The result is a professionalization of Health Care Chaplaincy which should go along with academic research and the development of an Ethics of Health Care Chaplaincy.
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