Patients and Families:
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
