Tag: hospice chaplain

• May 23, 2021

  Becoming comfortable with that nervous call from the hospice nurse

  Michael Giles, LCSW.
• April 15, 2020

  Hospice Chaplain IDT Notes

  Saul Ebema, DMin
• April 15, 2020

  The Art of Hospice Chaplaincy during COVID-19

  Saul Ebema, DMin. Setting the Scene Mrs. Hernandez’s three adult children are confronted by the nursing home’s no visit policy, shortly after her health turned for the worse and seeming imminent. Hospice nurse, Josh*, isn’t struggling to manage his own fear around his work with COVID-19 hospice patients; he is experiencing distress because his mother,…
• January 19, 2018

  What constitutes a good death in Hospice Care?

  Dr. Saul Ebema. Although dying is part of the human condition, dying poorly ought not to be. Researchers have begun to look at various domains of what constitutes a “good death.” I believe that a meaningful dying process is one during which the patient is physically, psychologically, spiritually, and emotionally supported by his or her…
• June 29, 2015

  Spiritual care for the terminally Ill Cancer Patients

  Saul Ebema, D.Min. During my experience working with terminally ill patients as a Hospice Chaplain, I have noticed that the major concerns of terminally ill cancer patients with a prognosis of six months or less are existential, spiritual, familial, physical, and emotional issues. Several patients I have worked with over the years expressed the fact…