APC Webinar Journal Club 12 - Session 4 Tuesday, September 12, 2023 (1pm - 2pm US/Central) Virtual

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Preventing Burnout and Restoring Meaning in Work: The Example of Compassion Rounds in the Neonatal ICU
presented by Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPh BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW

Please Register by 9/7/2023

Registration
Individual Webinar Journal Club 12 sessions
$73 / computer terminal / member
$110 / 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
This session 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 that will inform their chaplaincy practice and their ability to advocate for its benefits.

Preparation
The article selected for this session are made available beforehand, and participants are strongly encouraged to read them in preparation for the webinar.

Session 4
Preventing Burnout and Restoring Meaning in Work: The Example of Compassion Rounds in the Neonatal ICU
presented by Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPh BCC and Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

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)

This session of WJC will offer an in-depth look at an intervention involving chaplains, parents, and clinicians in a Neonatal ICU setting that has the potential to prevent or overcome clinician burnout, restore meaning of work to clinicians, and create interdisciplinary trust: Compassion Rounds. This qualitative paper deeply explores the outcomes of a Compassion Rounds program in the NICU, offering us a model of program evaluation and outcomes evaluation in chaplaincy, as well as a replicable model of an intervention that may be effective in chaplains aims of staff care in many settings. The intervention had positive effects not only on clinicians, but also on NICU parents, showing that when properly designed and implemented, chaplaincy interventions can spiritually support multiple groups simultaneously. Participants in this session of WJC will learn about this model of Compassion Rounds as well as how the authors of the paper evaluated the program for spiritual effectiveness.

Aims for reading this article through the Webinar Journal Club:

1. Explore how Compassion Rounds shared between chaplains, clinicians, and parents may have positive spiritual effects for all three groups.
2. Gain an understanding of qualitative research as a program and intervention assessment tool in chaplaincy.
3. Help chaplains develop and maintain research literacy, including the ability to critically read a qualitative paper using grounded-theory methodology and, where appropriate, apply the findings to their professional practice.

Reading: McManus K, & Robinson PS, (2022). A thematic analysis of the effects of compassion rounds on clinicians and the families of NICU patients, Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 28(1), pp. 69-80. doi: 10.1080/08854726.2020.1745489

Presenters
Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPH BCC, is the Executive Director of Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship and convener of the Pediatrics Spiritual Care Research Network. She previously served for five years in various roles at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her research interests include the role of religion in surrogate decision-making and in coping with caregiving for children with complex medical needs. She completed the Transforming Chaplaincy Research Fellowship in 2019.

Rev. Beth Muehlhausen PhD MDiv BCC LCSW is a spiritual care researcher and instructor with Transforming Chaplaincy. She previously served for four years as the Sr. Researcher for Mission Integration for Ascension. 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 "webcast." 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.

System Requirements
As a Best Practice, we highly recommend;
An Ethernet connected computer for best connectivity and listening experience. You may experience some buffering of audio on lower bandwidth wireless connections.
Chrome v50 or higher (recommended for best performance), Safari 12.1 or higher, Firefox 49.x or higher.
A stable Internet connection, DSL or above: 500kbps or higher to ensure fluidity of all services.
Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Mac OS X v10.8 or higher, Linux, Solaris.
Computer Speakers (for participants listening over the computer)

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Please click the following System Test link:  http://web.telspan.com/systemcheck 

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WEB SERVER: https traffic on port 443.
SIGNALING SERVER: https traffic on port 443 (recently changed from port 80).
MEDIA SERVER API: https traffic on port 443.
This will allow TelSpan to work properly.

"Webcam Access" applies only to presenters, so if you see a red "X," that's OK.

If you have any further questions or concerns, or if you do not have computer speakers, please contact APC at info@apchaplains.org for assistance.

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 09/07/2023
Name	Price	Available To
Member	$73.00	Member
Non-Member	$110.00	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 series qualifies for 1 hour of CE credit.
(Methodology 8 – Research)