Since some time chaplaincy as a discipline is in a crisis of both legitimization and communication.In this contribution, which is limited miscellaneous to the health care sector, a possible way out of this double crisis is sketched by joining an international field of studies which is known as spiritual care.Here a central idea is that attention to meaning and spirituality is the task of every care giver.According to this interdisciplinary approach the chaplain has a special role.On the basis of the first Dutch guideline spiritual care, written Hay nets for physicians and nurses, a plea is made for a further development of chaplaincy as a discipline by embedding it into the spiritual care approach.