Read Aloud the Text Content

This audio was created by Woord's Text to Speech service by content creators from all around the world.

Text Content or SSML code:

You have the right to be supported as you provide spiritual care to your patients. As a health care professional, here are some suggestions for getting the support you need to be spiritually competent: • Having the authority and support to make your patient comfortable according to your patient's RS beliefs and practices. • Having a chaplain or religious leader dedicated to employees within your health care organization. • Getting debriefed after each and every challenging patient religious or spiritual encounter by your manager or supervisor. • Having time off to destress and regroup after each and every challenging patient transition with religious or spiritual distress. • Receiving spiritual competence assessments at the start of your employment and periodically throughout the year to ensure that your own religious or spiritual needs are being identified and met. • Being trained on a variety of religious and spiritual belief systems and their associated practices to enable you better understand and care for your patients. • Being trained on spiritual competency skills and knowledge to enable you better understand and care for your patients. • Being trained on a variety of personal stress management and coping strategies to help you manage yourself as you care for your RS-distressed patients. • Working in health care environments that have the resources you need to deliver appropriate spiritual care.