Krankenhausseelsorge auf der Intensivstation

Spiritual care encounters and support in hospitals, especially in the intensive care unit, usually only happen once or twice, as the length of stay in the hospital is kept as short as possible. This article presents the support of a patient (diagnosis: left parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage) and his relatives by a volunteer hospital chaplain over a period of 3 months according to the concept of spiritual care, and supplemented by the perspective of the patient and his wife.