SAUGERTIES, N.Y. When the curtain goes up on Performing Arts of Woostock’s staging of Rhinebeck-based playwright Richard Nelson’s “Sweet and Sad” on Friday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m., the troupe will kick off its 60th season of staging community theater. Directed by Ellen Honig and produced by Emmy-award-winning soap opera writer David Smilow, the […]
Spiritual care practitioners providing critical support for health-care workers
WHO helps heal the healers during the pandemic?
For a growing number of health-care workers in Winnipeg hospitals, the answer is spiritual care practitioners. There’s been a major shift in the amount of time we spend with staff, said Kathleen Rempel Boschman, professional lead for spiritual care services for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and manager of spiritual care at Concordia Hospital. Health-care staff are struggling. They need a listening ear, a chance to debrief, she said, adding staff in intensive care units are feeling the greatest amount of stress.