FR2-01 All Together Better: How Nursing Leadership and Spiritual Care Partnered to Move the Needle On Retention of New Graduate Nurses
Presented by Aaron Unseth, Michael Le Buhn, April Prunty, Emily Oltmanns, and Lisa Mackeben
Overview
This presentation will feature a partnership between chaplains and nursing leaders to support new graduate nurses through a residency, preceptor development, grand rounds, trauma informed leader simulations, and orientation presentations This work created a 63.84% improvement in first year turnover between Jan 2023–Jan 2024 saving millions of dollars. Both chaplains and nursing leaders from Allina Health will speak at this interactive presentation. Qualitative and quantitative data will be shared from components of this strategy. Nursing leaders will share the value they find in partnering with spiritual care and give insights to help participants explore similar partnerships in their own systems.
Handout Included: YES
FR2-02 Corporate Chaplains in the Field of Academic Medicine and Research
Presented by Kory Fontenot
Overview
This interactive session will explore the day-to-day function of a corporate chaplain in the field of Academic Medicine and Research at Houston Methodist Hospital’s Academic Institute. In addition to exploring the Spiritual care and support for medical residents and academic researchers, this session will also explore how the corporate chaplain can partner with Human Resources and Organization Development to meet the needs of various academic research departments, Graduate Medical Education learners, and individuals within those teams. Finally, this session will provide participants with valuable information and time to collaborate on how to make a case for a corporate/workplace chaplain in any non-patient setting.
Handout Included: NO
FR2-03 Creation and Integration of Spirituality Groups for Inpatient and Outpatient Mental Health and Addiction Programming
Presented by Reid Olson and Ian Olson
Overview
This presentation explores the creation, implementation, and expansion of spirituality-based groups within inpatient and outpatient mental health and addiction treatment programs. We will discuss the role of spirituality in emotional healing and recovery in a group setting, focusing on how to establish and integrate these groups into both inpatient and outpatient settings. We will discuss how we designed a program that started at one hospital, and has now spread to over 8 hospitals and a dozen different settings. Will also discuss group facilitation.
Handout Included: NO
FR2-04 Disease Based Telechaplaincy: Supporting Folks with Chronic Illness in a Virtual Setting
Presented by Rabbi Rebecca Kamil
Overview
For the past year, Rabbi Rebecca Kamil has partnered with the CLL Society (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia) to be the chaplain for their clientele. Rabbi Kamil meets up to 6 times with people facing this disease and offers spiritual and emotional support. All meetings are done via Zoom or phone as the clientele are around the country. Rabbi Kamil will demonstrate how this partnership was set up, the gaps it fills for those facing chronic illness who may not have access to a chaplain otherwise, and the ways in which telechaplaincy is benefitting this population.
Handout Included: NO
FR2-05 Healing Our Healers: Learnings from EMS Chaplaincy
Presented by Gwen Powell and Nikki Holm
Overview
Care providers need support and advocacy too. Join chaplains Gwen Powell and Nikki Holm to gain insights from the unique challenges and opportunities of employee-based chaplaincy at a large EMS organization. We will demonstrate some of the research on burnout, share details of chaplaincy program, and provide time for discussion of practical ways to apply these learnings in your own context. We will explore specifics of our education offerings, rituals and resources, well-being spaces, and more. This is a blended workshop with lecture and group activities that can serve as a springboard for your next employee support project.
Handout Included: NO
FR2-06 Healthcare Chaplains’ Development in Faith/Spirituality/Religion During and Post COVID-19: Examining the Results of a Mixed Methods Study (R)
Presented by Benjamin Schaefer and Nina Redl
Overview
This workshop will present the first research project looking at how healthcare chaplains faith/spirituality developed and/or changed during and post COVID-19. In 2024, a mixed method research project engaged with over 500 chaplains around the way their work during COVID-19 shaped their personal faith/spirituality and where they find themselves now personally and professionally. This session will present the findings of how chaplains coped during and after COVID-19, how their faith/spirituality/belief systems were affected positively or negatively, how they experienced the support from their communities and how their work during COVID-19 has shaped their current work.
Handout Included: NO
FR2-07 Invasive Species, Opportunity, or Others: “Nones” are None-of-the-Above for Chaplains
Presented by Angela Parkinson and Samantha Nichols
Overview
The specter of the religious “Nones” has haunted faith communities and religious professionals for decades. Too often, even in well-meaning interfaith settings, this ambiguously-defined cluster of people (“secular,” “non-religious,” “multi-religious,” “non-theistic,” “atheistic,” “unaffiliated,” “humanist,” “spiritual-but-not-religious, “none-of-the-above”) is viewed through the lens of lament or as an opportunity for evangelism. Together, we will establish a base understanding of different secular identities, invite participants to reflect on their own thoughts and feelings regarding this segment of our patient/care-recipient populations, reframe the data regarding secularism, and explore what excellent care looks like for secular patients, their loved ones, and ourselves.
Handout Included: YES
FR2-08 Somatic (mind/body/spirit) Healing: Growing With our Grief
Presented by Amy Pickett-Williams
Overview
This knowledge provides a foundation for helping people experiencing grief and trauma understand and interface with their physiological responses in order to heal.These skills equip participants to support their patients in returning to parasympathetic states for healing and growth during grief and trauma recovery. These tools are applicable to all ages, children through older adults. *Chaplains will be able to participate in facilitated discussions to learn practical applications for integrating somatic care with social justice work, emphasizing individual well-being and systemic change.
Handout Included: NO
FR2-09 Spiritual Care Assessment: Developing an Assessment Tool for Long-Term Care
Presented by Sarah McEvoy, George Fitchett, Joanna George, Rev. Sean Jarchow, and Cherie Shaw
Overview
This active, practice-based, learning session offers participants the opportunity to understand and evaluate the methods used by a team of long-term care chaplains to develop a quantifiable spiritual care assessment tool for older adults. Team members will coach participants in the assessment scoring approach and participants will assess a real care study. Data will be collected during the case study assessment to test the inter-rater reliability of the assessment tool. This session offers participants the opportunity to play a role in the final development of this important tool.
Handout Included: YES
FR2-10 Spiritual Care to Domestic Violence Survivors
Presented by Joy Kaplan
Overview
Participants will practice the nuanced trauma-informed care that is required of spiritual care practitioners to domestic violence survivors. Case Studies, best practices & mock-patient encounters will be used to discuss the challenges and opportunities of this type of trauma.
Handout Included: YES
FR2-11 Spirituality and Religion in Advance Care Planning: Islamic Perspectives
Presented by Sakinah Alhabshi and Samsiah Abdul-Majid
Overview
Participants will be able to: 1. Gain a deeper understanding of Islamic theological approaches to life, illness, death, and the afterlife. 2. Effectively integrate religious and spiritual considerations into Advance Care Planning (ACP) conversations with Muslim patients and families, ensuring their beliefs and values are respected and honored.3. Engage in experiential and embodied learning through case reviews and roleplays. 4. Gain an appreciation of the nuanced uniqueness and diversity among the North American Muslim population. 5. Advocate for their patients within a multidisciplinary team, promoting compassionate care that aligns with patients’ faith and cultural backgrounds.
Handout Included: YES
FR2-12 The Power of Appreciation: Transforming Chaplaincy Department Culture Through Employee Recognition to Increase Engagement, Performance, Satisfaction, and Resilience
Presented by Imani Jones and Richard Tinapple
Overview
As a result of this educational opportunity, participants will be able to understand that now more than ever, in the age of high staff turnover, “quiet quitting,” compassion fatigue, and employee burnout, it is critical to recognize the power of staff appreciation. Numerous studies have been conducted that show the positive correlation between employee appreciation and engagement. This workshop will examine the research and provide Chaplaincy Department leaders with practical tools to integrate staff recognition into the culture of their departments, which has the potential to positively impact the culture through increased employee engagement, productivity, satisfaction, and overall resilience.
Handout Included: NO
ONLINE VIDEO/AUDIO RECORDING RETURN POLICY
Effective as of: July 1, 2023
This applies to Annual Conference Recordings, Professional Education Webinar Recordings, Chaplain Symposium Recordings, and Webinar Journal Club Recordings.
