Chaplains offer spiritual support, care, and counsel to assist you with spiritual issues related to your illness and hospitalization, including:
- Finding meaning in your illness
- Drawing on your religious faith to help you cope with your illness and the stresses that can accompany it
- Providing sacraments and religious rites, rituals, and practices that provide spiritual strength in crisis, as well as everyday living
- Counseling for the emotional and spiritual distresses of illness and for the strain they add to relationships
- Consultation for processing the teachings of your religious tradition regarding medical decisions, ethics, and matters of conscience
- Support in dying and while facing death; and for families in their grief immediately following the death of a loved one
- Being a bridge to your religious community or congregation, and to your clergy or spiritual leader
To receive spiritual care, ask your nurse to request a Chaplain, or call Spiritual Care at 6-2523 on an in-house telephone, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. |
God, grant me the
serenity to accept the
things I cannot
change, the courage
to change the
things I can,
and the wisdom to
know the difference.
Amen.
R. Niebuhr
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