WJC08 Session 5 - How Do Chaplains Document the Care They Provide? A Qualitative Study of EHR Documentation in a Neuroscience-Spine ICU

Description:

Overview:
Chaplains commonly document their visits in the Electronic Health Record (EHR), and little is known about the types of information included in chaplains’ narrative documentation. The article for this webinar reports the results of a qualitative study of the content of six chaplains’ narrative chart notes in a neuroscience-spine intensive care unit. Documentation can both describe personalized chaplaincy care provided to patients, as well as contribute to a team approach to whole-person care. In addition to data about explicit religious beliefs and practices, data about other themes in the chaplains’ free-text will be discussed, including documentation about the patient’s family. Using inductive content analysis, over 400 free-text notes from an 18-month period were examined with free-text excerpts providing informative examples.

Learning Objectives:

• To examine the contribution of free-text narrative documentation by chaplains in a neuroscience-spine ICU
• To explore informative examples of free-text documentation
• To help chaplains develop and maintain research literacy, including the ability to critically read research and, where appropriate, apply the findings in their professional practice

Reading:
Johnson, Rebecca, M. Jeanne Wirpsa, Lara Boyken, Matthew Sakumoto, George Handzo, Abel Kho, and Linda Emanuel. "Communicating Chaplains’ Care: Narrative Documentation in a Neuroscience-Spine Intensive Care Unit." Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy 22, no. 4 (2016/10/01 2016): 133-50

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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