Cedars-Sinai Spiritual Care Research Conference Keynote address from Dr. Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
Interdisciplinary team approaches to providing spiritual support contribute to patient satisfaction, quality of life, and decreased healthcare cost. Although it is understood that chaplains are spiritual care experts and nurses are spiritual care generalists, the scanty evidence about collaboration between these two disciplines suggests that it can be inadequate. Thus, this presentation will review empirical evidence that describes chaplain-nurse interactions and perspectives. For example, findings from a survey of chaplains that I conducted documented that while chaplains agreed, on average, that nurses provided helpful spiritual care often, they also perceived nurses provided harmful spiritual care sometimes. Furthermore, these chaplains 52% agreed that at least occasionally “nurses provide resistance (gatekeeping) to their work.” To work towards improved collaboration, this presentation will aim to prompt personal reflection and offer practical strategies for improving chaplain-nurse collaboration.

Presenter:
Elizabeth Johnston Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Loma Linda University School of Nursing, Loma Linda, California, USA, has pursued a program of research exploring the intersection of spirituality, religiosity, health, and nursing for over 25 years. Her clinical experiences as an oncology nurse created for her a deep interest in these topics, and led her to pursue a PhD (University of Pennsylvania 1992), a post-doctoral fellowship (UCLA, 1993-95), Clinical Pastoral Education, and training in spiritual direction. Her life experiences include a 4-year stint as Research Director, Mary Potter Hospice, Wellington, New Zealand.
The desire to help nurses understand and support patient spiritual health during health-related transitions has motivated Beth to write extensively and lecture globally. Her books include Spiritual Care: Nursing Theory, Research, and Practice (Prentice Hall, 2002), What Do I Say? Talking with Patients about Spirituality (Templeton Press, 2007), and Religion: A Clinical Guide for Nurses (Springer, 2012). Her latest book, Fast facts about religion: Implications for nursing care (Springer, 2019), provides clinicians with quick access to healthcare-related information about religions. She is grateful for research funding received from various federal government and private foundation sources.

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