Supporting Diverse Spiritual Needs
- Provide 24 hour on-call Pastoral Care and Counseling services
- Collaborate with other disciplines
- Provide interfaith religious/spiritual resource services
- Partnering with community spiritual leaders
- Provide religious resources to patients and staff
- Charting spiritual/pastoral interventions and outcomes
- Participate in patients’ case conferences such as:
-Discharge planning
-Palliative Care - Available for consultation on:
-Ethical concerns
-End of Life Decisions
- Struggling to find meaning during illness
- Issues of death and dying
- Expressing frustration, fear, hurt, doubt
- Inability to engage in spiritual or religious practices
- Loss of hope or feeling life is not worthwhile
- Sense/feelings of Abandonment, loneliness, and isolation
- Family Concerns
- Questions about faith or loss of faith
- Anxiety and depression
- Feelings of losing control
- Relationship with God
- Guilt, fear, and internal conflict
To provide compassionate and effective Spiritual Care and Supportive presence to patients, their families, and staff 24/7.
As chaplains we spend time providing compassionate and holistic care holding hands and talking about what is important to person or persons. We help them find meaning and acceptance in the midst of suffering, pain, grief, death and dying drawing understandings and connection from their spiritual, religious, and value systems. We help others talk about their feelings of fears, anger, anxiety, hopes, and joys.
