Compassion is essential in the practice of chaplaincy. This talk is an exploration of why compassion is central to our experience of being fully human and why it is so important in our time, and most particularly for chaplains. It is an endeavor to open up the truth of how compassion is essential for personal, social and environmental health, and why compassion is a path to and manifestation of human resilience and robustness. The talk will explore a heuristic map of compassion and a process for cultivating compassion in our encounter with those who are suffering.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Identify the components that comprise compassion, the interactive processes that prime compassion and practices that optimize and sustain compassion.
• Integrate these practices into chaplaincy in order to increase compassionate connection with patients and clients in order.
• Identify challenges to chaplaincy and ways to enhance resilience.

Collaborations amongst different disciplines are essential for providing compassionate patient care across clinical settings. Our multidisciplinary team will present successful strategies that are being employed to improve patients’ experiences of their care. We will describe: 1) how chaplain visits improve patients’ experiences with their care, as measured by Press Ganey and HCAHPS scores; 2) a chaplaincy led program, developed in conjunction with nursing leadership, that improves employee engagement; 3) an educational program which teaches chaplain residents how to best meet the spiritual and religious needs of patients; and 4) programs developed by the Patient Experience Office that help all disciplines to enhance the provision of compassionate care.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate how chaplains have an impact on both patients’ perception of care as well as employee engagement.
• Describe the implementation of an educational program that provides chaplain trainees with information to improve their practice as members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Describe one health care system’s approach to providing compassionate patient care within acute care hospitals

Great strides are being made to incorporate spirituality into the healing process but for those who have experienced trauma there is a continued reluctance within the military and our society to aggressively engage the moral woundedness of warriors from a spiritual dimension. Healing our wounded souls during trauma deserves a venue that is both inclusive and meaningful. This workshop will draw on the developmental, behavioral, and spiritual paradigms of the moral and spiritual concussion of the soul.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Develop a spiritual modality of healing for individuals who have experienced trauma.
• Explore the link between developmental and psychological theories and the biblical narrative of the Hebrew exile.
• Expand your understanding of spirituality and how it can be effective in fostering healing of the in marginal or non-church individuals

In 2014, Regence BlueCross BlueShield created its ground-breaking palliative care program, reimbursing spiritual care providers under its home health psycho-social benefit. This workshop will discuss the factors leading to the creation of that benefit, establishing spiritual care as a best practice in our work with The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and other payers, reviewing the wins and challenges around the promotion of these services, reviewing ways to talk to payers about best practices and reimbursement, and sharing learnings around cultural humility and interfaith respect.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Present a case study of establishing reimbursement for spiritual care as a payer.
• Discuss approaches for holding best practices conversations with payers.
• Review interfaith cultural impacts on patient quality of life and cost stewardship

Alan Sonnenfeld, a regular runner and bastion of health, was diagnosed at age 36 with stage IV pancreatic cancer in June 2014; he died in February 2015. Somehow, Alan and his wife Sarah were able to sometimes harvest happiness amidst distress, were able to let order and vitality coexist with chaos and pain. Over the past two years, Sarah and Dr. Linda Emanuel—a leading researcher in the field of palliative medicine with longstanding interest in the connections between physical, emotional, and spiritual health—have embarked on a multi-disciplinary exploration around what they called “existential maturity,” a state of well-being that can occur as a person approaches death.

In this interactive session, Linda and Sarah will discuss their paper recently accepted in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. We welcome all to join, and will seek feedback and discussion with the participants in the room.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Describe a new conceptual model capturing a state of thriving at the end of life .
• Participate in and be able to describe critical reflections from the surviving member of a couple and a researcher in palliative medicine and psychodynamics about their experience co-authoring a journal article.
• Shared and describe experiences and suggestions with other participants and workshop organizers about how to further this work across the field.

A new study shows that there is a need to explore how chaplains are involved in medical decision-making with adult patients and their families who are dealing with a serious or life-limiting illness. This workshop will present preliminary findings of this study and offer best practices for professional chaplaincy as well as future research to solicit the perspectives of patients, families, and other members of the health care team.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Discuss the concept of patient-centered care and current models of shared decision-making as well as the current state of research in this area.
• Draw upon preliminary research results to identify how chaplains perceive themselves to contribute to medical decision-making with patients and families facing serious or life-limiting illness.
• Explore models for shared decision-making that account for the unique role of chaplains in promoting patient centered care

There are many aspects of faith community nursing that focus on intentional care of the spirit in partnership with chaplains and other health care providers. This interactive workshop will include a short DVD, group discussion and group activities.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Describe historical foundations of the current specialty practice of faith community nursing.
• Define aspects of intentional care of the spirit.
• Discuss opportunities for partnering between chaplains, faith community nurses, and other health care providers

Spirituality is at the core of the human experience, yet social workers often avoid discussing it with patients in the medical setting. Their reluctance may lie in the lack of training about how to speak with patients about spiritual matters and/or how they manage their own personal beliefs or biases (Lemmer, 2010). With further education, all of the members of the interdisciplinary team are encouraged to become spirituality “generalists,” while chaplains remain the “specialists” in this essential aspect of wholistic patient care. Clinical social workers can engage in spiritual screening and discussion with patients, just as they might discuss other sensitive topics (Pulchalski & Romer, 2000). With this training, they can help develop this vital enhancement of a patient-centered approach to cancer treatment, and increase collaborative opportunities with their colleagues in pastoral care/chaplaincy.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Conduct spiritual screening and discuss patient concerns involving the spiritual domain, including spiritual well-being.
• Recognize the impact of various religious and/or spiritual belief systems on the illness experience and treatment decision-making.
• Identify various forms of religious and/or spiritual practice that can be used to enhance clinical social work

Research shows that strategic Advanced Care Planning can in fact help reduce readmission rates, increase use of palliative care and hospice, and reduce patient and family suffering. This presentation will explore specific strategies (now being tested through The Conversation Project in Boulder) to use the tool created by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (The Conversation Starter Kit) to develop workflow and processes specific to patients at high risk for re-admission. The end goal is also to empower chaplains to become strategic partners and true collaborators in effecting necessary change.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Identify strategies to intervene with patients at high risk of re-admission and create pathways to effective Advanced Care Planning including the designation of an Medical Durable Power Of Attorney (MDPOA) and integration of documents.
• Employ the IHI-created tool (The Starter Kit) for engaging families in ACP conversations.
• Partner with case management and other stakeholders to follow up with discharged patients regarding ACP using trained volunteers.

The need for rural health care chaplains is growing significantly as the aging population surrounding rural healthcare organizations continues to advance. However, rural health care organizations may not think they have the resources to meet the growing need for spiritual care services for their patients, families and colleagues. A full time board certified chaplain, while optimal, may not always be fiscally possible in today’s health care environment. This presentation will assist rural health care organizations and chaplains develop and maintain volunteer chaplaincy programs to provide for these needs.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Examine the design process for a volunteer chaplaincy program.
• Design a volunteer chaplaincy assessment.
• Evaluate training strategies

HealthCare Chaplaincy Network developed telehealth chaplaincy care services by phone, email and video and will present case studies to explore similarities and differences at clinical sites and through public portals in terms of types of spiritual distress (NCCN‐based diagnoses) encountered and in the efficacy of interventions as well as in partnership opportunities for patient‐centered care. This workshop will demonstrate how HCCN integrates expressive arts therapies and cognitive behavioral methods, and cognitive behavioral methods and why these are well- suited to telechaplaincy care. This workshop will also explore transdisciplinary partnerships in various settings, inclusive of palliative care, hospice, home health, and outpatient acute care as well in the community at large, and also discuss specialization and cultural competencies needed to integrate care with co‐presenting conditions, inclusive of trauma history, substance use disorder, and/or mental illness.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Review the vision, mission, and scope of practice for HCCN's telechaplaincy care services at clinical sites and through public portals.
• Distinguish types of spiritual distress and interventions common in these settings, inclusive of cultural considerations and co‐presenting conditions.
• Identify partnership opportunities in patient‐centered care including palliative and hospice as well as in outpatient acute, crisis, and community care.

The recently rolled out federal Quality Improvement Program (QPP) mandated by Congress as part of the Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act (MACRA) contains many opportunities for spiritual and emotional care providers to contribute value to patients and to their institution's efforts to comply with this legislation. The workshop will review the most relevant provisions of this rule for spiritual care providers and discuss concrete opportunities to be involved in it rollout locally.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Discuss the basic provisions in Quality Payment Program Final Rule, with a specific focus on the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)
• Examine the relevance to and potential opportunities for spiritual and emotional care providers to increase their value added.
• Describe specific steps that spiritual and emotional care providers should be doing now in light of the QPP.

There is a diversity of cultures that exist within the pediatric hospital that serve and identify the many issues that have surrounded times of death or dying and how chaplaincy service was or could have been more supportive. Working with diverse cultural needs directly impact professionalism and, personal values, and demonstrate behaviors when providing care in of health care chaplains. This workshop will address different perspectives and cultural complexities around death and dying. It will also explore ways to facilitate caregiving spaces that invite and accommodate diverse needs when loved-one’s transition from life to death.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Visualize a clearer picture of who we are and how many different cultures are hiding in plain view.
• Embrace the other in each of us and the benefits of self-assessment on how diverse cultures impact your professionalism, values and behaviors as chaplains and care givers.
• Participate and observe a role play with cultural challenges, and practice what the workshop teaches

Spirituality is a universal human need and experience of meaning, purpose and connection. It is often in this spiritual dimension that individuals both struggle and find inner resources to meet the challenges and powerful experiences that often occur in the context of a life-threatening chronic illness. Spiritual themes often emerge as chronically ill patients ponder the “whys” of diagnosis, struggle with regrets, grieve the loss of the “old normal,” and search for ways to transcend and seek peace and comfort. Yet, spirituality is an area of a patient’s experience that is often confused with religion or compartmentalized as being the responsibility of only the clergy or spiritual leaders to address. This workshop teams must develop and utilize skill sets to provide competent and confident delivery of spiritual care to support patients whose spirits are hurting and whose hopes may be shattered.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Provide a literature-based theoretical context for integration of spiritual assessment and intervention in interdisciplinary team practice.
• Provide a useful take-home packet of creative tools and resources to enable participants to integrate assessment and interventions to address patients’ spirit.
• Explore the application of spiritual well-being to maintaining professional selfcare and resilience in finding meaning and significance in one’s chosen life’s work

Compassion—patients and families want it, health care providers desire to provide it and recent health care failures have highlighted the detrimental effect that occurs when it is lacking—including increased adverse patient events, patient complaints, decreased quality of care ratings, and poorer health outcomes. Despite being reputed as the ‘heart of health care a growing theory-practice gap has emerged between what patients want and their experiences of health care. While enhancing compassion in health care is the responsibility of all health care professions, compassion is a particularly concept within chaplaincy and may serve as indicator and outcome of quality spiritual care. The compassion model, a patient informed and clinically relevant empirical model, provides a foundation for research, education and practice to guide chaplains and health care providers to advance the field of compassionate care. This session will address what is compassion, what is the current state of the health care literature on compassion, what are the key dimensions of compassionate care and how are these similar or different to related concepts of empathy and sympathy, and learn about the importance of compassion to spiritual care and the unique role that chaplains might play in this endeavor.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Highlight the historical background and current state of compassion in health care.
• Explain the results and key dimensions of a patient informed study to develop an empirical model of compassionate care.
• Differentiate between patients understandings, experiences and preferences for sympathy, empathy and compassion. - Discuss the role of spirituality and spiritual care providers in enhancing compassionate care within health care

In acknowledging healthcare is fundamentally about human beings caring or human beings, how do we ensure a comprehensive view of experience in healthcare in consideration of mind, body and spirit? Explore the essence of patient experience, its definition and the impact it has in healthcare today. Through the latest State of Patient Experience research, perspectives on where patient experience is headed and reflecting on the recent collaborative effort between The Beryl Institute and HCCN, The Critical Role of Spirituality in Patient Experience, participants will be challenged to expand their view of patient experience and will gain insights they can use to inspire the work of their own organizations.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

Discuss the definition of patient experience, what it encompasses and the outcomes it impacts in healthcare today Review patient experience trends and key practices on integrating spiritual care into healthcare experience Describe core guiding principles and central actions to help lead the patient experience movement

Individuals with chronic pain express their pain as life‐limiting and researchers have identified spirituality as an active coping process that can affect various health outcomes. Despite these findings, spirituality has not been included as an active treatment component within psychotherapy groups for chronic pain patients. The loss experienced by these patients often result in an existential crisis and a disintegration of their sense of self.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Identity strands of spiritual and psychological aspects of chronic pain.
• Examine and practice a transdisciplinary methodology for support and healing.
• Create a path to develop a relevant project with a colleague from another discipline.

Medical personnel are often myopically focused on the physical aspects of the patient and quite often do not take into account the patient’s goals of care, quality of life, and perspectives on issues such as death and dying, life after death, healing, suffering and hope from a faith perspective. As such, there is a greater chance for patient/provider “disconnect.” Patients may come across as difficult or in denial all because the provider does not know and/or appreciate the patient’s faith perspective. Patients and families are often unrealistic or ignorant to their true medical condition and likely prognosis. Many would likely make different choices for care if they had time in advance to consider future medical needs considering their goals of care, faith and values.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Discuss what advance care planning is and is not.
• Instruct chaplains how to harmonize chaplaincy with advance care planning.
• Describe the three elements of a successful advance care planning program.

In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), many family members experience psychological and spiritual distress as they cope with fear, grief, and life and death decisions for another. High-quality spiritual care has the potential to reduce distress, improve decision making and improve family surrogates’ outcomes. This workshop will describe findings from the literature regarding spirituality and religion in the experiences of surrogates; describe the reproducible, semi‐structured chaplain intervention we have developed to provide proactive contact, spiritual assessment, interventions and documentation for surrogates; review the methodology and outcomes of the Chaplain Family Project pilot project with 25 patient/surrogate dyads that demonstrated acceptability and feasibility.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Discuss the spiritual and religious experiences of family surrogates facing critical illness in the hospital.
• Describe the Chaplain Family Project framework for spiritual assessment, intervention and documentation.
• Review the methodologic issues important in the design of a chaplain-delivered intervention for family members

This workshop aims to explore the development of a taxonomy for pediatric chaplaincy and the implications for more bespoke recording of pediatric patient and family visiting data and charting, and its contribution to chaplaincy key performance indicators and training. It is based on the results of a registered audit of the work of the Birmingham (UK) Children's Hospital Chaplaincy team.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Explain the methodology adopted to adapt the Advocate Health Care Taxonomy for a UK pediatric hospital.
• Present key themes which emerged from an analysis of 80 completed taxonomy forms by a multi‐faith team.
• Identify issues involved in the use of the taxonomy in a pediatric hospital and make recommendations for future use.

This workshop will explore various levels of communication, good and not so good listening, the importance of seeing through the eyes of others, and how to make verbal and non‐verbal communication compassionate. It will also provide most of the content of the compassionate communication course developed by Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region, one of the larger end-of-life care providers in the country, which is a mandatory part of the organization’s orientation process for all new employees.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Identify five specific levels of communication and how they are a part of health care communication.
• Describe the listening process and how the use of perceptual positions can increase the quality of a clinical - encounter.
• Demonstrate increased knowledge of specific practices that make communication compassionate and how to teach those practices to clinicians.

Muslims are one of the fastest-growing populations in U.S. health care system. They bring a mixture of spiritual, religious and cultural concerns to health care institutions, yet many health care staff, including chaplains, are unfamiliar and ill equipped to meet the needs of this diverse population This workshop will provide broad, high-quality information that will enable the medical staff and other caregivers, especially the chaplain, to engage Muslim patients, families and community around health care issues, including but not limited to participating in clinical decision-making such as palliative care treatment, DNR orders, hospice care and end‐of‐life support and will address what Islam says about health care‐related issues and how the health care team including the chaplain, can address this group’s needs and concerns.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Discuss what the leading Islamic authorities, including the Holy Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), say
• about illness and how to deal with it.
• Apply basic language skills and knowledge of the Muslim religious and spiritual rituals that will be helpful in communicating with the Muslim patient, family and community.
• Describe how to differentiate between religious, cultural and spiritual concerns of the Muslim patient, family and community.

For the chaplaincy department seeking growth opportunities in the forms of new programming, educational expansion, increased staffing, additional resources, engagement in best practices models of care, and administrative support at the highest levels, the development of a strategic plan can be invaluable. A strategic plan can assist chaplains as strategic partners in having the ability to articulate departmental strengths to be leveraged, weaknesses, opportunities for growth, and potential threats, each of which must be acknowledged and addressed for departmental growth and expansion to occur. This workshop will trace the origins, development and implementation of a recent strategic plan process undertaken by The Department of Chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral Education at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Examine what a strategic plan is and the process of creating one.
• Outline the strategic planning process of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Chaplaincy Department.
• Apply elements of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Chaplaincy Department strategic plan in your own health care setting

Providing spiritual care according to disease process is an attempt to bring awareness that spiritual care is a multidimensional endeavor. Gone are the days of cookie-cutter spiritual support. This workshop through research, insight is clearly available to all chaplains to provide the utmost in spiritual support to patients suffering from their disease process.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Receive insight through research findings that there is no cookie‐cutter spiritual care model.
• Explore typical disease processes and from research gain insight how best to provide spiritual support for these patients.
• Replicate this approach in your own places of service.

THRIVING FROM WITHIN^® is a meaning‐centered model that provides a framework for integrating spirituality in both patient care and care for health care professionals. Grounded in logotherapy and relying heavily on parallel process, THRIVING FROM WITHIN® offers participants a personal experience in which they view the journey of everyday life as a spiritual process, one in which caring for the human spirit is essential. This workshop will lay the groundwork for a cultural shift in both practitioner and patient care.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Discuss THRIVING FROM WITHIN^® as a meaning‐centered model that provides a framework for integrating spirituality in both patient care as well as care for health care professionals.
• Examine our own response to crisis, change and suffering when viewed through the logotherapeutic lens of meaning and purpose.
• Articulate the importance of parallel process in integrating spiritual care in health care.

The profession of improving the health and well-being of others by its nature is person‐intensive – and demands an interpersonal and human connection to those being cared for, as well as extensive professional knowledge. Those who choose to work in health care are often inspired by wanting to help others, and have trained extensively in many medical modalities and procedures that serve to lessen the suffering that patients and their families often experience. This workshop will describe domains of self-compassion, explore how these principles may address stress response and moral injury within health care professions; and, will explore how contemplative exercises may help professionals to identify and work with stress, moral injury, and compassion fatigue.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Review the literature on self-compassion.
• Discuss how self-compassion addresses moral dilemma(s).
• Identify contemplative practices which support self-compassion.

Well‐planned, intense simulation experiences have the potential to expose nursing students and nurses to authentic clinical cases, otherwise unavailable to them; build critical thinking and clinical judgement skills; and better prepare them to provide spiritual care. This workshop will utilize an intense simulation curriculum using a combination of high‐fidelity simulation experiences, standardized patient simulation, and interactive skills stations in teaching nursing students and nurses to provide spiritual care to diverse patients.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Describe the concept of simulation‐based education to teach spiritual care to nurses and nursing students.
• Describe ways to prepare you prior to simulation activities and how to utilize simulation to integrate standards for providing spiritual care to diverse patients and the utilization of interdisciplinary care to meet patient needs.
• Demonstrate simulation debriefing strategies and demonstrate the ability to lead a debriefing session to effectively teach culturally appropriate spiritual care principles and competencies.

This workshop will provide an overview a 3-factor model of spiritual motivations based on the work of Paul Tillich that is appropriate for all people, regardless of faith orientation. The presenter has been conducting work in spiritual assessment for more than 20 years and has developed several useful scales (e.g., ASPIRES, presented in 2016). A hands-on demonstration on how to use the Comprehensive Psycho-Spiritual Clinical Interview (CPSI), which will encourage active audience participation.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Examine a comprehensive format for collecting psychological and spiritual information.
• Present a 3-factor model of spiritual motivations.
• Discuss how to spiritually evaluate clients.

As health care continues to strive for excellence in patient care experiences and outcomes through advancing technology and accessibility, the partnership of clinical Spiritual Care with Bioethics becomes even more valuable and even foundational especially in terms of justice, beneficence and advocacy for the human spirit. In this workshop we will demonstrate the value of the relationship between Spiritual Care and Ethics through a case analysis: highlighting the assessment criteria and interventions used to create a complementary plan of care the patient and family.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Discuss the role of spiritual care in addressing bioethical issues.
• Assess the impact of spiritual care in resolving ethical issues.
• Explore managing emotions when personal values conflict with ethical choices and patient outcomes.

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The focus of this workshop is to increase awareness of spirituality as an area for interdisciplinary team intervention, and to support skill‐building in addressing spiritual issues in health care delivery through the presentation, analysis and discussion of clinical case examples. Case examples will focus on common spirituality‐focused issues that often arise in health care settings, including but not limited to differing beliefs between patients, family members and health care teams that may affect treatment choices and compliance, as well as patient and family histories involving regrets, forgiveness, and reconciliation concerns.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Explore the rationale for all team members being aware of and having the ability to screen, assess and address spiritual needs of patients at a basic level.
• Examine the increased comfort in one’s professional role in acknowledging and addressing spiritual concerns of patients/families.
• Identify collaborative strategies to engage one’s team members in addressing spiritual needs of patients/families.

This workshop will educate participants about the debriefing team at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic (UIHC), and research involving spiritual care services at UIHC, the University of Iowa College of Public Health, and University of Queensland. A comparative effectiveness study of two early interventions--Response, Resiliency, Resources (RRR), and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, CISD) to reduce stress among health care workers from UIHC involved in direct patient care is being conducted. RRR is a form of psychological first aid that was designed by Chaplain Jeremy Hudson after consultation with Drs. Kenardy (University of Queensland) and Ramirez (University of Iowa College of Public Health).

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Define and describe the impact of stress on workers in health care.
• Discuss the principles and applications of Response, Resiliency Resources, (RRR) intervention and the outcomes of the project.
• Examine the importance of building key relationships and identify allies within an organization to partner with for research.

Nurses are not only the largest health care workforce, but they are also the clinicians on the “front lines.” Although nurses are the most frequent professionals to make chaplain referrals, they also pride themselves for offering patients holistic care that assesses and addresses spirituality. Whereas it may not be overt or frequent, many nurses do provide spiritual and religious support. Because nurses may have little training in how to address patients’ spiritual concerns and fail to understand appropriate professional boundaries related to spiritual care provision, it is important for chaplains to appreciate the perspectives and training of nurses regarding spiritual care. Many nurses may effectively and ethically provide spiritual support, but it is also possible that some nurses attempts to provide spiritual care may cause patients distress.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Describe how nurses learn and think about spiritual care.
• Identify what spiritual care therapeutics nurses provide.
• Recognize how nurses’ spiritual care perspectives and practices can impact collaboration with chaplains and other health care providers.

This workshop will provide an overview of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP‐C) and share information from the study, including how cancer caregivers find meaning in their caregiving experience, potential areas of growth, including an understanding of the context that shapes the experience of providing care, and the need for self‐care and reconnecting to valued sources of meaning. Resources to assist caregivers in care provision will also be presented.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Describe caregiver quality of life and unmet needs.
• Examine the existential issues facing cancer survivors.
• Express knowledge of American Cancer Society (ACS) resources for cancer caregivers, including targeted interventions such as MCP‐C, in helping to reduce caregiver burden.

In an ever changing health care environment, chaplains are being asked to provide data that proves what we have known all along: that the care that chaplains provide does make a difference in patient safety, patient centered care, health outcomes, and many other ways. This session will focus on the ways in which one health care system has used data to highlight the positive impact that chaplains have on patient care and provider resilience.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Identify clearer connections between chaplain practice and measureable data that supports that practice.
• Identify ways in which outcome measures can be used more effectively in their own practice.
• Discuss a chaplain’s role on the interdisciplinary care team from an outcomes orientation.