title: Utilizing hospice for visitation of comatose patients: field education for pastoral care students.
abstract: This article provides a reflection on how three educational organizations utilized a hospice setting for field experience to provide spiritual care with comatose patients. It outlines how three students, who formed a collegial group, prepared for the experience, completed and documented assigned visits, summarized outcomes, and discussed some implications for ministry with terminally ill comatose patients.
authors.affiliation: Crossroads Hospice of Oklahoma, L.L.C., Odyssey HealthCare of Tulsa, 4135 S. 100th E. Ave., Suite 200, Tulsa, OK 74146, USA.
authors.forename: Marcia L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Howland
mesh_terms: D003128:Coma; D006738:Hospices; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States; D014789:Visitors to Patients