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Each webinar is 90-minutes long, includes time for discussion/question and answers, and costs $35. If you purchase the webinar but cannot attend for any reason, you will still be able to view the webinar recording for six months after the event.
All of the webinars run 2-3:30 pm Eastern Time.
May 3rd, 2011
Advanced Care Planning for Aging, Illness, and Incapacity
Who should attend: Anyone interested in this vital topic, chaplains, other religious professionals, and other spiritual care providers.
Become familiar with the concepts, vocabulary and tools that are necessary for preparing for the legal and spiritual needs that arise as people age, become incapacitated, or face life-limiting illness.
Expert presenters:
Robert Wolf, Esq. – Senior Vice President, Innovation and Development, HealthCare Chaplaincy
Martin Montonye, DMin, BCC -- Vice President, Academic Affairs, HealthCare Chaplaincy
May 9th, 2011
Caring in the Presence of Loss:
Who should attend: Anyone interested in this vital topic, chaplains, other religious professionals, and other spiritual care providers.
Learn to identify the needs of people grieving, explore the experience of grief and bereavement, and discuss the various interventions to provide supportive care.
Learn the contribution of Kubler-Ross' stage theory of grief; be able to define the terms anticipatory grief, bereavement, grief and mourning; and identify the skills necessary to engender trust and openness in a relationship with someone who is dying.
Expert presenter:
Martin Montonye, DMin, BCC -- Vice President, Academic Affairs, HealthCare Chaplaincy
June 14th, 2011
The Role of Chaplaincy within a Changing Culture
Who should attend: Professional and volunteer chaplains
Cultural competence is an increasingly important issue in health care and one where chaplains can have a major impact. Learn the current salient issues in making a health care institution culture-friendly for patients, families, and staff, and include new Joint Commission standards and assessment issues. Emphasis will be placed on the role that chaplains can have in being the “culture broker” for the institution.
Expert presenters:
George Handzo, BCC, CSSBB -- Vice President, Chaplaincy Care and Leadership Practice, HealthCare Chaplaincy
Sue Wintz, MDiv, BCC -- Managing Editor, PlainViews® e-newsletter for spiritual care providers, HealthCare Chaplaincy
June 28th, 2011
Spiritual Screening, History Taking, and Assessment
Who should attend: Professional and volunteer chaplains
Based on the work of the National Consensus Conference on Spiritual Care in Palliative Care, learn a system for integrating spiritual screening, history taking, assessment and care planning into the palliative care team. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the chaplain within the overall spiritual care function of the palliative care team
Expert presenter:
George Handzo, BCC, CSSBB -- Vice President, Chaplaincy Care and Leadership Practice, HealthCare Chaplaincy
September 13th, 2011
Palliative Care: Creating an Effective Transdisciplinary Team
Who should attend: Chaplains, other spiritual care providers, and other health care professionals
Teamwork is essential in providing quality care to patients receiving palliative care. This program is designed to enhance the clinical skills and effectiveness of healthcare professionals caring for palliative patients and their families. The content will include developing a team, defining roles, care and collaboration, leadership and communication skills, conflict resolution and finding meaning. In addition, a physician, nurse, social worker and chaplain will demonstrate teamwork by providing a case review
Expert presenter:
Martin Montonye, DMin, BCC -- Vice President, Academic Affairs, HealthCare Chaplaincy
October 11th, 2011
Organ Donation: Important Religious, Spiritual and Practical Aspects
Who should attend: Anyone interested in this vital topic, chaplains, other religious professionals, and other spiritual care providers.
Learn the facts about the organ donation and referral process; the ethical, religious and cultural considerations that families may have when deciding about donation and the role that each faith leader plays in saving lives.
Expert presenter:
Karen Cummings, New York Organ Donor Network
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Improve your practice with these online courses
HealthCare Chaplaincy introduces a new approach in continuing education for chaplains, clergy, counselors, educators, health care professionals and others with online courses that:
•Bring up-to-date subject matter to you at your convenience
•Add to, or refresh, your professional skills
•Provide opportunity for dialogue with peers
What Chaplains and Clergy Need to Know About Cultural Self-Awareness” created by the Rev. Dagmar Grefe, PhD, Manager of Spiritual Care Services/ACPE Supervisor, Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles; Templeton Visiting Scholar, HealthCare Chaplaincy
This course contains up-to-date, relevant information for chaplains, clergy, and other professionals on developing cultural self-awareness. Cultural self-awareness is awareness of interactions of cultural groups, and awareness of the psychological processes that occur automatically and impact on our social behaviors. Social psychology provides a framework for understanding why human beings categorize others, develop stereotypes, and respond to others in automatic ways. Included in this online course are methods to improve cultural self-awareness. The information is based in psychological research and theory.
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"What Chaplains and Clergy Need to Know About The Confused Patient: Delirium and Dementia” created by David A Harrison, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington; Templeton Visiting Scholar, HealthCare Chaplaincy
This course contains up-to-date, relevant information for chaplains, clergy, and other professionals on the often overlooked and under-diagnosed disorder of delirium. It also contains information about, and useful clarifying comparisons with, dementia, because delirium and dementia are often confused one for the other. Case studies provide examples of the risk factors, signs, and potentially life-long negative impacts for patients with delirium, as well as the progression of dementia on patient and family members. Recommended intervention strategies for patients and families of patients with delirium and dementia are included in this course.
Price: $40 per course.
To purchase, click here.
Each of these courses:
•Contains an online, self-directed learning module that you can access as often as you like, at your convenience, for up to one year.
•Contains bookmarks, so that you can close the course and resume your learning later from that place.
•Allows for repeated course completions to reinforce learning.
•Includes an invitation to participate in a facilitated, online, community of practice for peer to peer learning.
•Provides a certificate of completion, accessible and printable after the learner completes the course at least once
Friday, April 29, 2011
Those involved in spiritual care/palliative care can find helpful new webinars from experts starting May 3. http://bit.ly/iWtabA hpm
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Untreated pain is a huge global problem. But a problem that is solvable.
Palliative care pioneers such as HealthCare Chaplaincy trustee Dr. Kathy Foley, Mary Calloway, Dr. Bal Mount, Dr. Betty Ferrell and others have not only worked to help eradicate physical pain in the lives of people around the world but have sought to keep in front of the world how pervasive and devastating pain is in the lives of so many people.
Clearly, solving this problem is far from simple.
No one denies that the diversion and abuse of legal pain medicines is also a huge problem.
Yet the abuse is not a legitimate excuse to keep people in pain when a remedy is available.
What so many of us fail to appreciate is how huge a public health problem pain is. It not only takes away quality of life from so many but costs economies untold real money.
Even though I know about this problem in my head, I admit that I often find it so difficult to get my hands around it because of its enormity.
Thus I would commend to you this posting on the prominent palliative care blog Pallimed (http://bit.ly/g2ju64) which links to two new short videos at http://bit.ly/fqeAis and http://bit.ly/dLRLWH.
These videos are grim, but are not even close to the experience of those suffering in intractable pain.
They remind us of what an unnecessary scourge pain is.
Clearly, solving this problem is far from simple.
No one denies that the diversion and abuse of legal pain medicines is also a huge problem.
Yet the abuse is not a legitimate excuse to keep people in pain when a remedy is available.
What so many of us fail to appreciate is how huge a public health problem pain is. It not only takes away quality of life from so many but costs economies untold real money.
Even though I know about this problem in my head, I admit that I often find it so difficult to get my hands around it because of its enormity.
Thus I would commend to you this posting on the prominent palliative care blog Pallimed (http://bit.ly/g2ju64) which links to two new short videos at http://bit.ly/fqeAis and http://bit.ly/dLRLWH.
These videos are grim, but are not even close to the experience of those suffering in intractable pain.
They remind us of what an unnecessary scourge pain is.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Share This Now With Your Hospital Administrator and Risk Manager
A recent issue of Modern Healthcare, the weekly health news magazine that virtually all hospital administrators read, recently published an article on new strategies for dealing with patients and families after medical error (“Going beyond saying you’re sorry: More hospitals using quick remediation strategies following medical error”, March 28, 2011, pp. 32-33).
The article highlights a program at the University of Michigan Health System which replaces the traditional approach run by the hospital attorneys to an approach based on transparency and “remediation” which generally seems to involve a quick payment offer or at least not changing the patient for the procedure which resulted in the error.
This approach is clearly a big step forward in compassionate patient care and did reduce the lawsuits at this hospital.
However, something is missing.
It overlooks the potential contribution of the chaplain.
Many of us who are professional chaplains have long claimed that we can help reduce hospital lawsuits, though of course we cannot prove it. The lack of evidence notwithstanding, this article which many hospital administrators and risk managers will read, gives chaplains an opportunity to remind their management how they could make any program of this kind even better.
Chaplains are not there to defend the hospital or make any offers, but to help patients and families express and process the sometimes intense feelings that these events evoke and be a caring presence. Often it can be the unique expertise of the chaplain that reduces conflict and facilitates communication.
The chaplain’s active involvement sends a message that the hospital is truly interested in the person’s welfare and not just in protecting the hospital’s interests. In cases like this, chaplains are an essential and valuable resource to bridge the often divergent interests of risk management and patient-centered care.
I suggest that you share this now with your hospital administrator and risk manager, and talk with them about establishing a protocol where “exceptional” cases automatically trigger a chaplain referral and response as a member of the professional healthcare team.
The article highlights a program at the University of Michigan Health System which replaces the traditional approach run by the hospital attorneys to an approach based on transparency and “remediation” which generally seems to involve a quick payment offer or at least not changing the patient for the procedure which resulted in the error.
This approach is clearly a big step forward in compassionate patient care and did reduce the lawsuits at this hospital.
However, something is missing.
It overlooks the potential contribution of the chaplain.
Many of us who are professional chaplains have long claimed that we can help reduce hospital lawsuits, though of course we cannot prove it. The lack of evidence notwithstanding, this article which many hospital administrators and risk managers will read, gives chaplains an opportunity to remind their management how they could make any program of this kind even better.
Chaplains are not there to defend the hospital or make any offers, but to help patients and families express and process the sometimes intense feelings that these events evoke and be a caring presence. Often it can be the unique expertise of the chaplain that reduces conflict and facilitates communication.
The chaplain’s active involvement sends a message that the hospital is truly interested in the person’s welfare and not just in protecting the hospital’s interests. In cases like this, chaplains are an essential and valuable resource to bridge the often divergent interests of risk management and patient-centered care.
I suggest that you share this now with your hospital administrator and risk manager, and talk with them about establishing a protocol where “exceptional” cases automatically trigger a chaplain referral and response as a member of the professional healthcare team.
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