title: Spiritual care. Patients' access to hospital chaplains.
abstract: At this time of year, the thoughts of many nurses turn to the spiritual and religious needs of their patients, but what about the rest of the time? The author conducted a small survey to identify how well nurses were facilitating access to the hospital chaplain for a group of elderly patients, and uncovered some distressing findings.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cumming
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D010327:Pastoral Care; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations