Structure your ministry to start with patients'needs, hopes, and
resources and to be clear what difference your ministry can
make!Hospital chaplains value who they are and what they do as
contributions to patients'and families'healing and well-being. And
they are continually stretching to enhance their ministries.
Hospital administrators and other professionals on the care teams,
however, often need help to grasp those same values in outcome
oriented, observable, documentable, changes-for-the-better terms.
The Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving: Foundations for Outcome
Oriented Chaplaincy offers a powerful new paradigm for enhancing
supportive, effective spiritual care for patients and families as
well as communicating substantive outcomes to leaders and
clinicians alike. This is all the more important in these times
when every possible resource must be well used for the good of our
patients and their families.By evaluating the pastoral care you
offer, you can become more aware of the discrete skills you
exercise in the assessment, planning, intervention, and reflection
process. Such evaluation efforts highlight the discrete differences
excellent spiritual care makes. This can help you track
contributions you are making in terms of the patient's healing and
well-being. Having a sound, replicable way to make the process more
conscious also helps you communicate your assessment, strategies,
and contributions more clearly to other care team members.
Furthermore, consistently using The Discipline over time will
enable you to discover patterns of spiritual dynamics in how people
live with different health care challenges in their lives. These
patterns translate into valuable insights as your care for
others.The process discussed in The Discipline for Pastoral Care
Giving calls on the chaplain to: identify the patient's spiritual
needs, hopes, and resources construct a patient profile through
identifying the individual's sense of the holy, sense of meaning,
sense of hope, and sense of community design the desired outcome(s)
you hope your care will contribute--for example, a person who has
suffered a spinal cord injury integrates the effects of their
injury in their sense of identity and meaning, a person living with
cystic fibrosis healthfully grieves the loss of others in the CF
community, a patient 'disabled'by the absence of her support
community regains use of her personal resources for coping and
self-care develop and share a plan for the patient's spiritual care
choose interventions (which may range from facilitating a life
review, to compassionate confrontation, to reading Scripture, to
active listening, to arranging a family care conference) measure
outcomes, identifying and communicating the difference your care
has made in terms of the patient's healing and well-beingThe
Discipline for Pastoral Care Giving offers case studies, personal
experiences, helpful figures and charts, and suggestions for
dealing with patients experiencing unique, complex health care
challenges, including adults living with cystic fibrosis and
violent victims of violence. The wise advice and practical
suggestions in this book will help you recognize and document the
solid value of your hospital ministry.
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