This self-guided course, What Every Health Care Professional Needs to Know About Spiritual Care, is for those of all health care disciplines, settings, and roles who desire to know more about being a spiritual care generalist within their scope of practice. The course will provide an overview of spirituality and religion, the benefits of spiritual care, spiritual distress, spiritual screening, and spiritual conversations as well as the core skills that can improve the interventions that generalists provide. In addition, the benefits of specialist level spiritual care and team collaboration will also be explored.

Self-guided courses include the latest research available for the intersection of spirituality into the course topic. Students have full access to a purchased course for six months to work at their own pace. There is one test at the end of the course, and participants will have three attempts to pass or fail. Upon successful completion, students earn a certificate of completion.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course the learner will be able to:

• • Define spirituality, summarize the unique ways in which it may be expressed by persons, and identify its benefits.

• • Describe the concepts of spiritual care, including differentiating between spiritual, pastoral and chaplaincy care.

• • Recognize and illustrate the value of spiritual care in specific care settings.

• • Differentiate between specialist and generalist spiritual care and the role of each.

• • Screen and evaluate patients and families to determine who would benefit from specialist spiritual care.

• • Distinguish unique elements of the spiritual care delivery process.

• • Conduct a spiritual care conversation.

(Price includes GST and fully subsidised student registration fee)

This course was written by The Rev. Sue Wintz, M.Div. APBCC, BCC

Director of Professional and Community Education at HealthCare Chaplaincy Network and the Director of Education for the Spiritual Care Association

The Rev. Sue Wintz, M.Div. APBCC, BCC is the Director of Professional and Community Education at HealthCare Chaplaincy Network and the Director of Education for the Spiritual Care Association. She has over 35 years of clinical, administrative, writing, educational design, development, and teaching experience in the provision of professional chaplaincy and spiritual care in numerous health care, and community settings as well as an expert advisor to multidisciplinary professional organizations. Sue is a nationally recognized expert in cultural competence in health care and has taught about cultural competency in all health care settings for over two decades. She has contributed to work through both writing and teaching for organisations like the Joint Commission, the American Medical Association, the American Burn Association, and the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care as well as through numerous articles and presentations. Sue is an advance practice board certified member of the Spiritual Care Association. She is also a board-certified chaplain member and past president of the Association of Professional Chaplains who, in 2013 gave her its highest honor – the Anton Boisen Professional Service Award.