Spiritual Care
Healing involves much more than just treating a disease. For many patients, spirituality plays an integral role in the journey through illness and healing. Integrating this ideal into whole-person care can be challenging for many doctors in today’s health care system.
Christina M. Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, founder and director of the George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) and professor at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, authored the first comprehensive reference text to examine the growing area of spirituality…
The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) has received a $175, 851 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation to convene a working group of 30 subject-matter experts, in the areas of medicine, nursing, chaplaincy, social work, allied health, healthcare economics,…
Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, director of the George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) and professor of Medicine in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences recently co-authored a report in The Journal of Religion and Health titled “Spirituality in…
Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, professor of Medicine in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, is quoted in an article regarding the role that spirituality can play in a patient's health and recovery.
Dr. Christina Puchalski, professor of Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, addressed nurses, nursing students, clergy and volunteers at the Chambersburg Hospital in Chambersburg, PA. She talked about integrating spirituality and patient care.
According to Christina Puchalski, M.D., F.A.C.P., director of the George Washington Institute of Spirituality and Health (GWish) and professor of Medicine in the GW School of Medicine in Health Sciences (SMHS), what hospital patients report wanting more than anything else during their stays is “to…
A growing number of health care institutions are adopting attitudes and programs integrating spirituality and medicine. Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, says more research is being done on the role of spirituality in…
During medical school, the majority of students’ curriculum is centered around the biomedical sciences and how to relieve a patient’s physical pain. But little attention is paid in the clinical years to relieving a patient’s spiritual distress.