Date of Award
Fall 2025
Document Type
Project
Degree Name
Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
Committee Chair
Doug Dickens
Abstract
Just like a jazz combo brings together professional musicians who are instrument specialists to improvise together, Palliative Care brings together healthcare specialists for holistic, patient-centered collaboration. This ministry project, which is a phenomenological inquiry based on the theological theme of suffering, follows a collaborative approach to implementing spiritual care at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, TN. This project describes the researcher’s collaborative work in scoring a new jazz standard for Erlanger Palliative Spiritual Care, which includes recommendations for quality improvement and recommendations for professional development.
Citation Information
Fleck, Richard, "Scoring a New Jazz Standard: A Collaborative Approach to Implementing Spiritual Care at Erlanger Hospital Palliative Care" (2025). Doctor of Ministry Projects. 73.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/divinity_etd/73
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