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CARE AND COMFORT TO TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT
SPIRITUAL
Help patients make connections to their spiritual practice or
cultural community.
01 Patients are comforted when they have assurance that some
aspect of their lives will transcend death.
Promote
Spiritual Draw on the resources of spiritual care providers in an
Comfort institutional setting or collaborate with the patient’s own
and Hope spiritual or religious leaders and communities.
Making an audiotape or videotape for the family, writing
letters, or keeping a journal assures patients that something
of their essence will survive past their death.
