You may wish to call a chaplain if you need:

• Emotional or spiritual support as you cope with your illness
• Help with coping skills
• Emotional or spiritual support as you cope with life concerns beyond your illness
• Help in making meaning of your illness
• To request a specific religious ritual
• Someone to talk to safely and confidentially
• Support as you anticipate surgery, when you have received bad news, or are grieving a loss
• Help with end of life decisions

Staff:

You may wish to call a chaplain if you need:

• Information on a patient's religious tradition in order to provide culturally competent care
• Help with religious or ethical concerns about a patient, a family, or your work
• To arrange a memorial service for a deceased colleague
• Support as you deal with a personal or spiritual issue of your own