WJC11 Session 3 - Evidence-Based Spiritual Care with Adult Outpatients with Cancer: Documenting Spiritual Assessments

Description:

Overview:
Following a prior pilot study of Spiritual AIM, Kestenbaum and colleagues recently published this retrospective chart review of chaplaincy assessment and documentation. As chaplains continue to integrate into interdisciplinary teams and contribute to interdisciplinary care, documentation is an important means of communicating spiritual assessments and generating chaplain-based data. The session will focus on how Spiritual AIM provides a model that can be integrated into bedside chaplaincy care to promote evidence-based practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a working definition of evidence-based practice and discuss an example related to caring for adult outpatients with cancer
• Describe documentation practices and the frequency of spiritual needs of this population
• Discuss an evidence-based model for spiritual care screening and assessment, e.g. Spiritual AIM

Reading:
Reading: Kestenbaum A, McEniry KA, Friedman S, Kent J, Ma JD, Roeland EJ. Spiritual AIM: assessment and documentation of spiritual needs in patients with cancer. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy. 2021 Dec 2:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2021.2008170

Presenters:
Rev. Marilyn J. D. Barnes MS MA MPH BCC, serves as the Chair of the Department of Patient Counseling within the College of Health Professions at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and the Director of Pastoral Care at VCU Medical Center. She previously served as the Vice President of Mission and Spiritual Care in the Advocate Aurora Health Care System in Illinois. 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 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. 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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