Flow of spirituality

With baseline information from the inquiries of the last two posts you can begin to map the flow of spirituality within your medical staff. The exercise will inform your strategies for swinging the medical staff toward a new cultural goal. Some of the basics are these: The bedside care of the patient is the primary goal. Physicians who teach other physicians multiply their influence. Physicians who lead other physicians multiply their influence less strongly than the teachers. Physicians who befriend other physicians are strong influences. One might surmise that higher volume physicians will provide more spiritual care, and this is true unless they become so busy that they omit spiritual care.