title: Making our case(s).
abstract: Health care chaplaincy needs to develop a body of published case studies. Chaplains need these case studies to provide a foundation for further research about the efficacy of chaplains' spiritual care. Case studies can also play an important role in training new chaplains and in continuing education for experienced chaplains, not to mention educating health care colleagues and the public about the work of health care chaplains. Guidelines for writing case studies are described, herein, as is a project in which three experienced oncology chaplains worked together to write case studies about their work. Steps that chaplains, and professional chaplain organizations, can take to further the writing and publishing of case studies are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA. George_Fitchett@rush.edu
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fitchett
mesh_terms: D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002977:Clergy; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D016522:Oncology Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic