Articles Tagged With: chaplains
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ICU Staff Report Severe Moral Distress, But Resources Are Underused
There is growing awareness of the prevalence of moral distress in healthcare — and the costs in terms of burnout and staff turnover. However, solutions to this problem remain somewhat elusive.
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ICU Staff Report Severe Moral Distress, But Resources Are Underused
Unresolved ethical concerns not only cause individual moral distress, but can also change the staff relationships and clinical cohesiveness.
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Spiritual Support Alleviates Anxiety of Surrogate Decision-Makers
Surrogates enrolled in an enhanced spiritual care model reported less anxiety, more spiritual well-being, and greater satisfaction with spiritual care compared to surrogates who received usual care. These results suggest expanded chaplain involvement is beneficial.
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Population Health Initiatives Could Include Focus on Spiritual Care
Spiritual care can be separated from the chaplain experience and focus on patients across the continuum, the author of a new paper suggests. Integrating spiritual care into outpatient, managed care, and population health can enhance patient care and improve the effectiveness of interdisciplinary teams.
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Patients, Family, Clinicians All Misunderstand Chaplains’ Role
One way to help is to provide patients and providers with background information on chaplains, with an emphasis on the fact chaplains are certified professionals who are specifically trained to provide patient-focused spiritual care to all people, regardless of belief system.
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Chaplains Play Unique Role in Advance Care Planning
Ninety percent of 585 of board-certified healthcare chaplains said advance care planning is important to their work, 70% regularly help patients complete paperwork after discussions, 90% facilitate discussions with patients about their preferences, and 45% reported they were not consistently included in team discussions on decision-making. -
Chaplains Report Receiving No Ethics Education
Chaplains often serve on ethics committees, as ethics consultants, and as institutional review board members. Yet there are no standardized ethics curricula in Clinical Pastoral Education programs. -
Students Shadow Chaplains, Connect with Patients
Medical students led the creation of a grassroots ethics program that includes lunch-and-learn sessions, ethics presentations, faculty-student mentorship sessions, student ethics committee discussions, and an ethics capstone scholarly project. Students learn to recognize ethical issues in everyday medical decisions as they transition to providing direct patient care on clinical wards.
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Chaplains ‘Uniquely Positioned’ to Help During COVID-19
Learn how chaplains can put their specialized training to use to help not only patients and families but staff, too.