SamenZin: Collaborative learning by chaplains and nurse practitioners
- Period: June 2020 – June 2022
- Status: completed
The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has made funding available to strengthen spiritual care and cooperation with other professionals in primary care. The SamenZin project is being carried out by the University of Humanistic Studies in collaboration with ZinInUtrecht and the Centre for Life Questions.
Description
Meaningfulness is still an underexposed area in primary care. Although questions of meaning, philosophy of life and spirituality arise in many different target groups, it requires a sensitivity and competences of care providers to notice them and offer guidance. Spiritual care is an ideal target group that knows how to deal with questions of meaning, but is still little known to other care providers in primary care and has few structural forms of collaboration in this domain. General practitioners in the field of psychosocial problems (POH GGZ) and geriatric care form an accessible professional group for questions and problems of various kinds and are firmly embedded in primary care. However, for the POH GGZ in particular, attention to pleasure in life is not yet an explicit part of their professional profile or training.
The aim of the project is to bring both professional groups together through the development of a ‘collaborative learning about meaningfulness’ program of GV and POH GGZ / Elderly with a view to strengthen the care for meaningfulness, philosophy of life and spirituality in patients and clients in primary care.
Researcher
Project leader was prof. dr. Gaby Jacobs.
Partners
- Zin in Utrecht
- Netwerk Palliatieve Zorg Utrecht Stad en Zuidoost Utrecht
- ZonMw – Zingeving en Geestelijke Verzorging
(Co-)funding
This project was made possible in part by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.
Also see
- Project page at ZonMw (in Dutch).