Supporting staff: The role of health care chaplains

White, Kelsey; Corson, Tyler; Charlescraft, Ann; Johnson, Tricia J.; Jackson-Jordan, Elizabeth; Fitchett, George

doi:10.1080/08854726.2022.2154107

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“…Lacking leadership 2022 Tartaglia et al [27] Chaplains can be used as an adjunct to Code Lavender and other support protocols to provide support to staff in distress following traumatic or stressful events.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The facilitator theme "assistive adjuncts" was mentioned in 8 of the 37 occurrences, or 21.62% [15,[17][18][19]27]. Specific colors on the room's walls, massage chairs, and aromatherapy can decrease stress and facilitate relaxation [15].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With the use of fresh paint and comfortable furniture, unused patient rooms can quickly be transformed into quiet rooms [19]. Chaplains can also serve as a valuable adjunct to Code Lavender and other support protocols to support staff when they are distressed after traumatic or stressful events [27].…”

Section: Facilitatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Using Serenity Rooms and Similar Tools to Improve the Workplace during COVID-19: A Rapid Review

Mileski,

McClay,

Kruse

et al. 2024

Nursing Reports

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This manuscript examines using serenity rooms and similar tools to improve the workplace during COVID-19 for nurses and other practitioners. A rapid review of the literature was conducted and completed from four different databases, including PubMed, CINAHL, Science Direct, and Academic Search Complete. The literature review was completed with the use of a single-string Boolean search to maximize the number of articles returned. The resulting 14 germane articles yielded six facilitator themes and four barrier themes. Facilitator themes included: benefits, assistive adjuncts, places of relaxation, leadership required, availability, and other effects. Barrier themes included: lacking leadership, concerns regarding lack of space, holistic concerns, and negative perceptions. There is a significant lack of research in the literature in this area. Most of the literature reviewed showed widely positive results for institutions that utilized serenity rooms or similar tools for decreasing nurse and practitioner stress and burnout. The use of these tools improved nurse and practitioner compassion, retention, and resiliency.

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Kruse

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Nursing Reports

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“…Although the role may change depending in which sector they are employed, a large proportion of the core responsibilities normally remains the same. Chaplains found in the healthcare sector, offer pastoral support to both staff and patients (Tartaglia et al, 2022); many chaplains are also taking on the role of a mediator in actual patient's healthcare (Głusiec and Suchodolska, 2022;Harris, 2018). Within prisons, chaplains can perform a variety of roles ranging from coordinating religious programmes, to calming inmates (Sundt and Cullen, 1998).…”

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God’s intermediaries: a study into chaplains’ information behaviour

Robson,

Ruthven,

Innocenti

2024

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Introduction. This study investigates the information behaviours that chaplains across the UK and Ireland use in their day-to-day work when interacting with vulnerable people. Methods. Eight chaplains working with vulnerable people were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The interviews aimed to find out how chaplains acted as intermediaries and what other information behaviour techniques they use in their work. Analysis. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the transcribed interviews, the four main themes of information work, work duties, ways of working and faith were discovered. Findings. A range of information behaviours were found to be used by chaplains when interacting with their clients. These information behaviours included information chunking, avoidance and acting as an information intermediary. Conclusion. This paper shows the range of information behaviours that chaplains utilise when working with vulnerable communities.

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“…Debriefing stressful events is beneficial if not essential to those who work in high-acuity healthcare systems. Many healthcare systems rely on chaplains to provide staff support in times of distress, with chaplains spending a third or more of their time engaged in some form of staff support (Tartaglia et al, 2022). This can be a regulated part of the job but for many, it is lumped into “other tasks as assigned.” When chaplains are responsible for staff support, they may rely on already established programs and materials to provide said support, though this author is unfamiliar with a standard model of an emotional debrief accepted on a national scale.…”

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Call to Action: The Need for a Standardized Emotional Debriefing Model for Clinical Settings

Russell

2023

J Pastoral Care Counsel

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Clinicians in high-acuity hospital settings experience chronic distress due to the secondhand trauma experienced at work. Chaplains are often responsible for providing staff support to address this distress. One form of staff support is emotional debriefing after critical events. There are few publications about emotional debriefings. It would benefit chaplains to engage in research and discovery regarding emotional debriefing and create a standard model for chaplains to use in staff support.

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Supporting staff: The role of health care chaplains

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Using Serenity Rooms and Similar Tools to Improve the Workplace during COVID-19: A Rapid Review

Using Serenity Rooms and Similar Tools to Improve the Workplace during COVID-19: A Rapid Review

God’s intermediaries: a study into chaplains’ information behaviour

Call to Action: The Need for a Standardized Emotional Debriefing Model for Clinical Settings

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