Center to Advance Palliative Care

It is important that your chaplains have clinical training and are certified through the cognate organizations mentioned. I believe the chaplain's support should be as key as the others on the team. As a trained and certified chaplain I see my contact to be one of emotional/spiritual/ psychosocial support. As part of a palliative care team, the expectation is that I visit (or one of our other chaplains)to determine the patient and family needs. I also often refer patients and their families for family and patient support, pain or symptom management and/or end-of-life decision making for care so am the first to 'visit' and encourage additional care from our team.