Tag: Hospice chaplaincy
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Erik Cremeans On Being a Hospice Chaplain
“As a doctor wears a lab coat, I want to be clothed in compassion, as a nurse drapes a stethoscope around the neck; I want that draped around my neck as love.” Erik Cremeans In today’s episode, our hosts Joe Newton and Saul Ebema sit down to talk with Erik Cremeans. Erik shares his journey from…
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Five Steps to proper Hospice Chaplain Documentation- For Routine Visits
By Dr. Saul Ebema
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Spiritual Assessment in Hospice
Lisa Jones, MDiv. The HOPE questions, were developed as a teaching tool to help chaplains begin the process of incorporating a spiritual assessment into the medical interview. These questions have not been validated by research, but the strength of this particular approach is that it allows for an open-ended exploration of an individual’s general spiritual…
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The Skilled Chaplain
Saul Ebema, D.Min. In the book, “The Skilled Pastor: Counseling as the Practice of Theology”, Taylor writes that “the way to help persons deal with their problems is to help them change the beliefs that contribute to their distressing feelings and behaviors”. I find this quote from Taylor to be true because skilled…
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Knowledge of Death as a Crisis in Hospice Care
By Dr. Saul Ebema. One of my friends used to have dizzy spells that often came and went. He decided to go to the doctor to have some tests done on him in order find out what was wrong with him. The results of the tests indicated that he had brain tumor that had metastasized…
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