Hospital Visitation Manual (Revised)

by Perry Biddle

Overview

A field manual for giving pastoral care to the sick. In addition to general hospital visitation information, special sections describe the emotional and spiritual needs of patients with a wide variety of illnesses and highlight the therapeutic value of using appropriate humor. Includes Scripture passages, prayers, and hospital service suggestions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802806987
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/01/1994
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	4.72(w) x 7.46(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

An author and retired minister of Middle TennesseePresbytery, Presbyterian Church (USA). He is a graduate ofDavidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, UnionTheological Seminary in Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, andVanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He alsostudied at New College, University of Edinburgh inScotland.

Table of Contents

I. Preparing for Pastoral Care for the Sick

1. Getting into the Hospital Community
2. The Hospital Visit
3. The Role of the Pastor
4. The Patient and Illness

II. Pastoral Care for Specific Types of Patients

5. The AIDS Patient and Associates
6. The Burn Patient
7. The Cancer Patient
8. Children
9. The Coronary Patient
10. Ministry to the Dying
11. The Emotionally Ill Patient
12. Gastrointestinal Illnesses
13. Intensive Care Patients
14. The Kidney Patient
15. Obstetrics
16. The Presurgical Patient
17. The Stroke Patient
18. The Substance Abuse Patient
19. The Surgical Patient
20. The Unconscious Patient

III. Services and Other Resources

21. A "Sick Call" Service of Anointing
22. The Baptismal Covenant
23. The Lord's Supper (Minimum Text)
24. Prayers, Poems, Hymns
25. Selected Scripture Passages

Bibliography