"Essential not optional": Spiritual care in Australia during a pandemic

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2021

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Tan, H.
Holmes, C.
Flynn, E.
Karimi, L.

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Journal of Pastoral Care and Councelling, 2021; 75(1):41-45

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Heather Tan, Cheryl Holmes, Eleanor Flynn, Leila Karimi

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This paper focuses on the impact of COVID19 in Australia. Three areas were investigated: professionalism, contrasting hospital and aged care services and "business as usual"? Impact was low overall, the timing being pre-second wave impact. Two areas of weakness were highlighted: depleted spiritual care teams due to standing down non-professional staff and uncertainty about the role of Chaplains in the care of other staff. Further study of second wave impact is recommended.

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© The Author(s) 2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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