A Practical Guide to Hospital Ministry: Healing Ways is a comprehensive resource that examines the roles and responsibilities of hospital chaplains. It will help you make a shift toward a knowledge- and skill-based ministry that both incorporates and goes beyond current training approaches. It also provides vital resources for hospital ministry, including job descriptions, discussions of various types of hospital ministries, scope-of-practice statements, sample pastoral care brochures and request forms, orientation checklists, sample religious preference codes, and a list of typical counseling problems.