Comment: | This forty four page comprehensive publication aims at creating a framework for healthcare professionals to enable them to meet the cultural and religious needs of patients / clients. With the advent of intermixing of cultures and ethnicities, institutions are now required to address this wider canvas of need and everyone is required to further develop sensitivity and knowledge to enable them to give a high quality service to patients / clients.
Provided in the publication:
+ religious and cultural provision within institutions;
+ a standard audit tool;
+ background information for eighteen religions including special considerations, diet, care of the dying patients and those deceased, transplant, organ donation and funerals;
+ guide to registration of death and a comprehensive summary of forms and certificates relating to burial/cremation;
coroners' cases and procedures;
+ burial abroad.
- plus a host of other information. |
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