Hospital Visitation Manual

This book is written primarily to enable the working pastor to become more effective in giving spiritual care both at home and in the hospital. The first four chapters of this manual will help you get acquainted with the hospital community and learn steps in visiting the sick. It also explains the pastor’s role with the sick and the patient’s relationship to the illness. Part two of this manual offers guidelines on pastoral care for specific types of patients; Aids patient, Burn patient, Cancer patient, Coronary patient, etc. The last part deals with services, prayers, poems, hymns, and selected Scripture passages.