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Chaplaincy in Palliative Care Settings

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Author: chaplaincochran
Date: May 29, 2008 12:36 pm
Make sure you only hire or allow Board Certified Chaplains to see your patients. APC, NACC, NAJC all require CPE as a prerequisite to certification. In theory if a Chaplain has Board Certification, they should have the training and experience to serve a diverse patient population. Non-certified Chaplains most likely do not have the experience or the competency level and may or may not be able to relate to a diverse patient population.
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Re:Re:Chaplains and Diverse Religious Traditions (by georgelfrancis01 on 05/29/2008)
I do not beleive that because a Chaplain is board certified that it will guarantee a meaningful encounter. There are board certified chaplains who do not have college degrees let alone Graduate degrees from"certified" schools, that is schools which are both ATS and SACS certified. In other words, there are chaplains whose professional training which forms the scaffolding upon which "CPE" is added who do not personally embreace diversity because of there personal religious views. Their college degrees credits would not tranfer to any local college or graduate school. I do beleive that having both a undergraduate degree and a graduate degree in religion. or ministry, or Spirituality from a ATS/SACs cettified school in addition to being board certifeid allows the greatest possibility that the Chaplain will openly embrace diversity, walk where the patientis and possess that basic skills to provide rituals etc for meaningful ministry. Let us never sell CPE or board certification as a "end all" qualifer. I do think that it will help any chaplain signifigently, but it is not a "cure all" for effectiveness in Pastoral/Spiritual Care. George L. Francis Palliative Care Chaplain Saint Joseph's Hospital Tampa, FL.

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