Spiritual care of religious communities and believers in Slovenian hospitals

Ramšak, Mojca (author)

The author addresses the issue of access to spiritual care for religious communities and believers in Slovenian hospitals from the perspective of national legislation, hospital practice, and specific legal and human rights issues, such as circumcision of boys in Muslim communities. Religion and belief are analysed in terms of current legislation, and hospital practice is examined through various documents and interviews with medical staff. Analysis of sources such as national legislation, internal hospital documents (a total of 98 documents reviewed in 2021), and interviews with healthcare workers in Slovenian hospitals (a total of 13 respondents interviewed in 2021 and 2022) showed that the needs of different religious communities and believers are largely met during their hospitalisation in state hospitals, that human rights prevail over the right to medically unjustified interventions, and that doctors and management have sufficient understanding of the spiritual side of treatment.

• Language: English
• Keywords: religion, access to spiritual care, discrimination, medical ethics, medical law, equal rights
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 225-246
• Numbering: Letn. 77, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163375
• UDC: 2-46:3
• ISSN on article: 2335-4127
• DOI: 10.34291/Edinost/77/02/Ramsak
• COBISS.SI-ID: 134556419
• Publication date in RUL: 04.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Edinost in dialog : revija za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog
• Publisher: Inštitut za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog pri Teološki fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, Inštitut za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog pri Teološki fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, Inštitut Stanka Janežiča za dogmatično, osnovno in ekumensko teologijo ter religiologijo in dialog, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2335-4127
• COBISS.SI-ID: 268194560

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Duhovna oskrba verskih skupnosti in vernikov v slovenskih bolnišnicah

Abstract

Avtorica obravnava vprašanje dostopa verskih skupnosti in vernikov do duhovne oskrbe v slovenskih bolnišnicah z vidika nacionalne zakonodaje, bolnišnične prakse ter specifičnih pravnih in človekovih pravic, kot je obrezovanje dečkov v muslimanskih skupnostih. Vero in verska prepričanja analizira z vidika veljavne zakonodaje, bolnišnično prakso pa preuči skozi različne dokumente in razgovore z zdravstvenim osebjem. Analiza virov, kot so nacionalna zakonodaja, interni dokumenti bolnišnic (skupaj 98 dokumentov, pregledanih leta 2021) in intervjuji z zaposlenimi zdravstvenimi delavci v slovenskih bolnišnicah (skupaj 13 intervjuvancev, intervjuvanih leta 2021 in 2022), je pokazala, da so v državnih bolnišnicah potrebe različnih verskih skupnosti in vernikov v veliki meri zadovoljene med hospitalizacijo, da so človekove pravice nad pravico do medicinsko neupravičenih posegov in da imajo zdravniki ter uprava dovolj razumevanja za duhovno plat zdravljenja.

• Keywords: religija, dostop do duhovne oskrbe, diskriminacija, medicinska etika, medicinsko pravo, enake možnosti

Projects

• Funder: HRZZ - Croatian Science Foundation
• Funding programme: Humanities in the European Research Area
• Project number: Hera.2.029