APC Webinar Journal Club 13 - Session 3 Tuesday, June 11, 2024 (1pm - 2pm US/Central) Virtual

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What difference does chaplains caring for staff really make? Hearing directly from healthcare staff.
presented by Cate Beaulieu-Desjardins, MDiv MPH BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW

Please Register by June 6, 2024

Registration
Individual Webinar Journal Club 13 sessions
$75 / computer terminal / member
$112 / computer terminal / non-member

Registration by the published deadline is required to ensure that participants receive handouts, login information and pre-reading materials in sufficient time before the webinar.

Audience
The series is designed to help chaplains with no prior experience learn to read and understand research. It will also introduce research-literate chaplains to important research about spiritual needs and chaplains’ activities in response to those needs.

Preparation
The articles selected for the series are made available, and participants are strongly encouraged to read them in preparation for each webinar.

Session 2 
The Persistence of Religion as a Master Status for Chaplains
presented by Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPh BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CST
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MST
11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
10:00 am - 11:00 am AKST
8:00 am - 9:00 am HAST

60 minutes (1 CE hour plus reading/self-study hours - Methodology 8, Research)

Chaplains have long been asked to care for healthcare staff alongside patients and their families, and increasingly so since the onset of COVID-19 which added significant stressors within healthcare. However, few studies have been done directly asking health care staff about their perception of chaplains and the care they provide to staff, and how chaplains might impact important measures like burnout and compassion satisfaction. The researchers for this paper surveyed 1471 healthcare staff in a large medical center, exploring the above questions quantitatively. Their results support the idea that greater perceived chaplain importance to staff may mediate burnout and compassion fatigue, which may support expanding roles and adding FTEs to chaplaincy departments so chaplains have more time to devote to this vital area of staff care.

Aims for reading this article through the Webinar Journal Club:

1. Discuss the roles chaplains play in caring for healthcare staff.
2. Learn about how quantitative research methods can help give a voice to those we serve and demonstrate outcomes of chaplaincy.
3. Explore how perceived importance of chaplains to healthcare staff may improve staff burnout and compassion fatigue.

Gaines AF, Rangel TL, Freedberg R, Doucette S, Stengem D, Timmerman R, Roney J, Arenivar P, Patterson A, Long J, Sumner S, Bock D, Mendelson S, Saul T, West A, Leavitt RE, Colorafi K. Relationships Between Perceived Importance of Chaplain Presence and Health Professionals' Emotional Well-Being in the United States. J Relig Health. 2023 Jun;62(3):1546-1560. doi: 10.1007/s10943-023-01809-4. Epub 2023 Apr 3. PMID: 37010707; PMCID: PMC10068192.

Presenters

Cate Beaulieu-Desjardins, MDiv MPH BCC is the Assistant Director of Research Development for Transforming Chaplaincy, where she focuses primarily on research in pediatric spiritual care. Cate completed the Transforming Chaplaincy Research Fellowship in 2019 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at KU Leuven in Belgium. She is co-editor for the forthcoming book “Case Studies in Pediatric Chaplaincy” (Pickwick, 2024). Cate concurrently serves as the Executive Director for the Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship and the Anabaptist Centre for Healthcare Ethics. Cate is endorsed and credentialed by Mennonite Church USA as one of the first openly LGBTQ+ persons granted ministry credentials in the denomination.

Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW is the Spiritual Care Research Program Manager at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas. She coordinates research related to spirituality, religion and spiritual care with the Houston Methodist Research Institute and interdisciplinary colleagues as well as research within the spiritual care department. She is also a researcher and instructor with Transforming Chaplaincy. She is a qualitative researcher utilizing hermeneutic phenomenology and mixed methods. She has published several articles on spirituality, chaplaincy, and spiritual care during the pandemic. She has presented several workshops and intensives at the annual APC conference, for NACC and the North American Association of Christians in Social Work.

How It Works
To participate, all that is needed is a computer with Internet access and speakers, as the presentation audio and visuals are broadcast through ZOOM. Our webinars are priced per computer terminal, not per participant. That means you can invite as many colleagues to join you as can fit in your conference room or cluster around your computer. As a participant, you will be able to interact with the presenters, who will ask questions of the audience and answer questions posed by participants.

How to participate:
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System Requirements:
As a Best Practice, we highly recommend;

- An internet connection – broadband wired or wireless (3G, 4G, or 5G)
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- Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari (within 2 versions of current version)

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Confirmation
You will receive an e-mail confirmation upon completion of the online registration and payment process. Instructions for logging into the webinar will be e-mailed to all participants two business days before the event.

Registration Fees: These fees are available through 06/07/2024
Name	Price	Available To
Member	$75.00	Member
Non-Member	$112.00	Non-Member

Cancellation and Other Policies:

The registration fee (minus a $20 nonrefundable processing charge) will be refunded up to five (5) business days of the first scheduled WJC session. APC reserves the right to cancel the program within one (5) business days of the scheduled event, if an insufficient number of people register. In case of APC cancellation, all registration fees will be refunded.

Continuing Education Information:

This session qualifies for 1 hour of CE credit.
(Methodology 8 – Research)