ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to consider spiritual care in healthcare provision. The context and perceived crisis in healthcare provision related to a lack of supportive theory that addresses caring for cancer patients will be considered theologically and sociologically. It will be argued that healthcare as a practice discipline has yet to find its way in relation to utilizing an evidence-base theory for the provision of spiritual care. It will be shown that although healthcare professionals are credited with initially having nurtured the interest in spirituality and its implications for spiritual care, there is profound criticism of its poorly constructed scholarship, including conceptual confusion and lack of evidence to substantiate its practice recommendations and claims associated with spiritual care. It will be shown that implementation of the theoretical concepts inherent in the theory The Omnipresence of Cancer is a mechanism for supporting the spiritual care of cancer patients.
