Facilitating Goals of Care Conversations

What is the role of the chaplain in goals of care conversations? Join the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and palliative care chaplain Bobby Fleck for a discussion of the expertise chaplains bring to these conversations, as well as how they relate to patients, caregivers and medical team members.

We will also discuss how chaplains can appropriately advocate for patients when their own goals of care may conflict with the recommendations of medical clinicians, as well as handling conflict between and among patients and caregivers.

Please register here. 

We thank the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care for their support of this webinar. Learn more at https://csupalliativecare.org/.

Explore the Role of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care Settings

The Essentials of Palliative Care Chaplaincy course offers a thoughtful, evidence-based approach to spiritual care for people facing serious illness. Over eight weeks, participants will engage with the Full Circle Model of Spiritual Care, learning how to support patients’ goals, address spiritual and emotional pain, and work effectively within interdisciplinary teams.

This instructor-led, online certificate program is designed for chaplains and spiritual care providers who want to deepen their understanding of:

Cultural humility and religious diversity
Communication around end-of-life care
The unique spiritual needs of patients and families

Participants also earn 64 CE hours upon completion.

Learn more at https://geni.us/csu-essentials-cil.

If you’re looking to strengthen your practice and connect with a community of peers, this course offers a meaningful opportunity to do so.

We have indexed learning outcomes for this webinar to those maintained by ACPE and APC/BCCI outcomes and competencies. Our inclusion of these outcomes should not be construed as endorsement of this event by either organization:

ACPE Category C: Relational Dynamics, Outcome 3: Group Dynamics, Levels IIA and IIB.

BCCI PIC5: Use appropriately one’s professional authority as a chaplain.

BCCI PIC6: Advocate for the persons in one’s care

BCCI PPS6: Provide religious/spiritual resources that are appropriate to given care recipients, their spiritualities/religions, their contexts, and their goals.

Rev. Dr. Bobby Fleck is Chaplain at Erlanger Palliative Care. He is a graduate of Emory University Candler School of Theology and Gardner-Webb University.