title: Connections, collisions, and complimentarity: the dynamic of health care chaplain, parish nurse and parish clergy collaboration.
abstract: Parish nurses, health care chaplains, and community clergy can collaborate to create communities of wholeness. As these professionals extend their care and mission into the community, chaplains, parish nurses, and community clergy have opportunities for collaboration. These collaborative efforts come as a result of personal connections that can lead to collisions in priorities and philosophies but can also be productive complimentarity as they learn to work together for a common mission. Through connection this potential for collision or complimentarity, the community itself can participate with health professionals and clergy to help people be better, feel better, and carry suffering better.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas, Houston Health Science Center, School of Nursing, 1100 Holcombe, Suite 6.001, Houston, TX 77030, USA. rschuman@son1.nur.uth.tmc.edu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schumann
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: VanDuivendyk
mesh_terms: D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002835:Christianity; D002977:Clergy; D003142:Communication; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce