Overview Members of the Spiritual Care Team provide emotional/spiritual care, crisis intervention, conflict management, and other support to patients, their families, and to staff, through on-call coverage, usually overnight and on weekends, for Carle Health—Methodist Campus. In healthcare: chaplains are key resources engaged in supporting the emotional / spiritual needs of patients, their families, and healthcare staff. These supportive activities may focus on those with established faith traditions and practices, or those with no religious beliefs, but who have emotional reactions to their personal/medical situations. These supportive efforts include compassionate response to all expressions of diversity.
Responsibilities
Main Function Triages and prioritize critical visits and clinical rounds priorities and completes clinical rounds at the start of each on-call shift Completes consult requests Completes other visit requests, including requests for Advance Directive assistance Appropriates documentation in the EMR for all patient care activities Arranges for Sacramental ministry by area Priests and Eucharistic ministers as needed / desired Gathers information about Ethics Consult requests from any campus and forwards that information to the Ethicist on-call for Ethics Makes appropriate referrals to area faith groups as needed / desired by patient / family Partners with nursing to enhance the emotional / spiritual care of patients and families Main FunctionResponds in support of: Arrests Deaths RRT calls, especially pediatric RRT calls STEMI calls Trauma calls Stroke calls Withdrawal of Life Support situations Fetal Deaths or other L&D emergencies that occur in either L&D or the ED Supports Open Heart and other surgery emergencies as needed Supports other medical emergencies as requested Responds to overhead pages for RRT calls and Stroke calls when in the building doing rounds or attending to other clinical needs Responds to in-house crisis calls as quickly as appropriate When already supporting another situation, communicates when they will be available to respond and triages competing clinical needs effectively When on-call effectively triages after-hours calls for appropriate response, referring non-essential calls to the next shift Supports staff after medical crisis events either: Through Care & Share efforts Or by triggering the CISM team for critical incident event response Utilizes on-call back-up resource person for consultation and clinical guidance when needed and appropriate and in situations when an additional chaplain is needed on campus Main Function Participates in department meetings and projects Meets shift report deadlines for Kronos and time keeping needs Remains current on all department policies and procedures Participates actively in shift coverage conversations and responds to department emails within a reasonable timeframe Completes all annual education in a timely manner Completes reading, professional development, or other additional responsibilities as assigned Provides a letter of endorsement annually verifying one’s good standing with one’s faith tradition Main Function Completes annual expansion of one’s working knowledge of the values and practices of other faith tradition, ethnic, or lifestyle groups Offers support that is respectful and meaningful to those specific groups or make a referral to someone within that group, with patient permission Respects all persons / expressions of diversity Uses department resources for self-care and to better understand how one’s personal spirituality impacts their clinical performance
