WJC10 Session 2 - The Chaplain Family Project: Development, Feasibility, and Acceptability of an Intervention to Improve Spiritual Care of Family Surrogates

Description:

Overview:
Engaging with healthcare surrogates in an ICU setting can be challenging and is critical to caring for patients and those who care for them. This study provides opportunities for the reader to obtain information on the development and implementation of the Spiritual Care Assessment and Intervention (SCAI) framework, and its use in the ICU with healthcare surrogates. This pilot study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of such a framework by healthcare surrogates who were contacted proactively by a board eligible or board certified chaplain. The study offers the reader the opportunity to examine how this type of framework might be integrated into their clinical practice.

Learning Objectives:

• To understand the development and pilot testing of a spiritual care assessment and intervention framework
• To explore the use of a spiritual care assessment and interventions used with family members’ of seriously ill patients in an ICU care setting
• To consider the chaplain’s proactive approach to engaging with a patient’s healthcare surrogate

Reading:
orke, A. M., Maiko, S., Watson, B. N., Ivy, S. S., Burke, E. S., Montz, K., Rush, S. A., Slaven, J. E., Kozinski, K., Axel-Adams, R., & Cottingham, A. (2019). The Chaplain Family Project: Development, Feasibility, and Acceptability of an Intervention to Improve Spiritual Care of Family Surrogates. Journal of health care chaplaincy, 25(4), 147–170. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2019.1580979

Presenters:
Rev. Marilyn J. D. Barnes MS MA MPH BCC, is a Vice President of Mission and Spiritual Care in the Advocate Aurora Health Care System in Illinois. She previously served as a Senior Staff Chaplain at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. She is a 2018 Transforming Chaplaincy Fellow graduate. Her research interests include the use of simulation in chaplaincy training and education, the impact of spiritual/religious coping on the association between discrimination and stress among midlife women, and the experiences of health care chaplains of color.

Cate Michelle Desjardins MDiv MPH, 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. Shelley Varner-Perez MDiv MPH BCC CPH, is Senior Program Manager and Chaplain-Researcher at Indiana University (IU) Health, Indianapolis, as well as an Affiliated Research Scientist in the Center for Aging Research with the Regenstrief Institute. She previously served nine years as a chaplain at VA Portland Health Care System in Portland, Oregon. She completed the Transforming Chaplaincy Research Fellowship in 2019 at the conclusion of a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology. Her research interests include spiritual care with family surrogate decision-makers and staff support following code blue events, as well as using art to engage those who are non-religious/unaffiliated.

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