Abstract
This chapter has a twofold aim. Firstly, it describes attitudes and practices among Norwegian hospital chaplains regarding documentation in the patient’s medical record. Secondly, the chapter will present recent international research related to the role and function of the hospital chaplain with an emphasis on the use of medical records. Hospital chaplains work in a system where the requirement for documentation is constantly increasing, but currently they do not have automatic access to the medical record system due to the fact that hospital chaplains are not defined as healthcare personnel. This requires close collaboration with nurses, doctors and other personnel who know the patient. The development of new digital record systems is changing the way of working in hospitals turning the flow of information around patients digital. This challenges the way of working for many hospital chaplains where patient contact depends on the oral handover from healthcare personnel. This chapter argue that an active use of electronic patient records will strengthen the spiritual care to patients in Norwegian hospitals.
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