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When Care is Tough: Supporting the Multidisciplinary Team

  • Course Author: Brian Hughes, BCC
  • Duration: 25 hours - Access for 6 months
  • Type: Self-Paced
  • Category: Essential Spiritual Care
Price:$220

This course, When Care is Tough: Supporting the Interdisciplinary Team, focuses on why chaplains and spiritual care providers should intentionally emphasize care for staff. We will look at how chaplains and spiritual care providers can create a calming and peaceful presence amidst what is often a chaotic and intense clinical environment. We will also look at some ways chaplains and spiritual care providers can seek to provide rituals that will be meaningful to staff who are of different religions, and none. We will also then be looking at the need for chaplains and spiritual care providers to provide staff care. Topics such as compassion fatigue, burnout, vicarious trauma, and moral injury will all be defined and discussed as it relates to employees working in healthcare. We will also then look at some specific programs and interventions chaplains and spiritual care providers can use when working with staff – some tools in the chaplain and spiritual care provider’s belt. Finally, we will learn about other institutional resources available to staff, and how chaplains and spiritual care providers can encourage their use.

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course the learner will be able to:

    • Identify methods to provide calm and calming presence to the interdisciplinary health care team in the midst of crisis and stress.

    • Describe a procedure for providing rituals when needed for staff using materials that are inclusive of all beliefs and non-beliefs.

    • Understand the impact of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, or burnout and how to facilitate supportive one-on-one and small group conversations with staff experiencing these issues.

    • Understand and articulate what resources, such as employee assistance programs, are available.

 

(Price includes GST and fully subsidised student registration fee)

This course is written by Rev. Brian P. Hughes, M.Div., M.S., BCC

Professional Chaplaincy Advocate HealthCare Chaplaincy Network

Rev. Brian P. Hughes, M.Div., M.S., BCC works with the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network Programs and Services team and as an Assistant Professor for the Fundamentals of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care certificate course. His Master of Divinity degree is from Princeton Theological Seminary, and he has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Communication. Brian is a Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains. His wife is a breast cancer surgeon. He has walked with her through all her medical training – medical school, residency, fellowship, and now professional practice. Throughout he has had a professional emphasis of providing care for caregivers and has a unique experience and vantage point from which to do so. Together with his wife, they have two elementary school-aged children.

Brian has worked as a chaplain in Phoenix, Irving, TX, and Philadelphia, Temple, Texas, and New York City. He has worked on the Palliative Care team in each place of employment. He has presented at numerous conferences, on topics ranging from integrating chaplaincy care into the Intensive Care Unit, professional competencies for chaplains, spiritual care for persons with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury, providing spiritual care to staff, self-care for chaplains, spiritual care at the end of life, and he annually presents the best chaplaincy-related research published from the previous calendar year. He also authored the Handbook on Best Practices for the Provision of Spiritual Care to Persons with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury for the U.S. Navy (free PDF available), as well as the “Spiritual Care at the End of Life” chapter in Stephen Roberts’ excellent textbook, Professional Spiritual and Pastoral Care: A Practical Clergy and Chaplain’s Handbook.

He has been a stay-at-home dad since the birth of his daughter in 2009 and has stayed active in the Association of Professional Chaplains through conference planning committees, the Education Committee, and serving on certification and peer review committees. He is passionate about the professionalization of our profession of chaplaincy and look forward to sharing his experience and expertise in this module.

 

  1. Introduction to Staff Care
  2. How to Be an Agent of Peace in the Midst of Chaos
  3. Meaningful Rituals for Staff
  4. The Need for Staff Care
  5. Additional Resources
  6. Summary
  7. References

Aligns with the following Sub-domains in SHA’s Capability Framework for Spiritual Care Practitioners in Health (2020):

    • 1.3 Perform and deliver

    • 3.2 Wellbeing and holistic care

    • 4.2 Self-regulation

    • 5.3 Professional networking

*Also aligns with Capability Levels 2 (Independent Practice) and 3 (Service Coordination)

Aligns with the following Priorities in the National Model for Spiritual Care in Health:

    • Priority 2: Integrated Governance

    • Priority 3: Professionalised Workforce
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