A Hospital Visitation Manual Book

I. Preparing for Pastoral Care for the Sick

1. Getting into the Hospital Community
2. The Hospital Visit
3. The Role of the Pastor
4. The Patient and Illness

II. Pastoral Care for Specific Types of Patients

5. The AIDS Patient and Associates
6. The Burn Patient
7. The Cancer Patient
8. Children
9. The Coronary Patient
10. Ministry to the Dying
11. The Emotionally Ill Patient
12. Gastrointestinal Illnesses
13. Intensive Care Patients
14. The Kidney Patient
15. Obstetrics
16. The Presurgical Patient
17. The Stroke Patient
18. The Substance Abuse Patient
19. The Surgical Patient
20. The Unconscious Patient

III. Services and Other Resources

21. A "Sick Call" Service of Anointing
22. The Baptismal Covenant
23. The Lord's Supper (Minimum Text)
24. Prayers, Poems, Hymns
25. Selected Scripture Passages

Bibliography