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- Vision
- Synod 2021-2023 (Vision, Nov-Dec 2022)
- Vision, January/February 2023
- Anthology identifies universal competencies for good spiritual care
- Church needs to fully recognize the gifts of women in ministry
- Neurotypical or not, we all need to act out in grief
- Proactive outreach by chaplains can raise their institutional profile
- Synod process raises hopes for positive change in the Church
- The total breadth of chaplaincy: Wide-ranging, undefined, and uncredentialed
- How do Catholic women use their gifts in the Church? It’s complicated
- NACC welcomes Anita Houghton to national staff
- New ethics policy will protect everyone and raise accountability
- Vision, March/April 2023
- Neurotypical or not, we all need to act out in grief
- Benefits of building emotional intelligence will ripple outward
- Chaplains quickly adapt to the language they hear
- Chaplains’ skills translate well to address the ecological crisis
- Healthcare chaplains learn to be adept at code-switching
- Make the time and effort to acknowledge autistic individuals’ grief
- Whatever form an autistic person’s grief takes, acknowledge it
- Whether loved one or patient, death brings grief to long-term caregivers
- Spiritual care rotation exposes medical students to language of chaplaincy
- Vision, May/June 2023
- Vision: Reports from our 2022 National Conference
- Years ago, healing service lifted burden of anger and grief
- First-timer at the conference feels the blessing to his life and faith
- Journeying together: World Café gathers NACC members’ thoughts
- NACC business meeting looks toward new possibilities
- Newly certified chaplains enjoy face-to-face celebration
- Spiritual care can extend to systemwide wellness efforts
- Chaplains asked to do the hard work of antiracism
- How to use poetry in ministry? ‘First of all, don’t call it a poem’
- Vision, June/July 2022
- Examining moral distress can lead to moral resilience
- Critical incident debriefing mitigates moral distress after difficult cases
- Identifying moral injury by name is a good place to start
- Insights into veterans’ moral injury carry over to healthcare workers
- Pandemic spread moral injury widely in healthcare settings
- Spiritual intervention may alleviate moral injury and depression among nurses
- Tested interventions for moral injury (if we call it that)
- “No matter what I do, it feels wrong:” A moral distress case study
- Vision, April/May 2022 (unthemed)
- Simple chaplain interventions make a measurable difference
- Moms’ reluctance to let dying children go forces tough reflections
- Book describes constructive uses of confrontation in spiritual care
- Pay more attention to the powerful force of empathy
- What do nurses need to know about chaplaincy?
- PTSD at end of life requires extra thought and compassion
- NACC adjusts Strategic Plan to account for tumultuous times
- Worldwide synod is also opportunity for NACC to learn more
- Vision, January-March 2022
- Careers as neurobiologist and chaplain parallel each other
- Career in hospital administration finally led to chaplaincy
- Moving from nursing to chaplaincy was a response to God’s whisper
- The meaning of life: Rock and roll and chaplaincy
- From music to academia to chaplaincy, nothing is wasted
- Acting and singing career transfers easily to chaplaincy
- Ex-technical writer uses her existing skills on the hospital floor
- From canon law to chaplaincy, the connection is compassion
- From managing wildlife to caring for people, it all makes sense
- Musician, teacher, dietician – all roads led to chaplaincy
- After psychiatric nursing, pastoral care required new mindset
- November/December 2021
- Vision – NACC-related and unthemed articles
- USCCB and NACC enjoy decades of mutual resourcing and support
- A final column: 14 years of supporting the healing ministry of Jesus
- New executive director feels vocation to support others’ ministry
- Ethics Commission can offer informal help with difficult situations
- New episcopal liaison knows the power of pastoral presence
- U.S. synod report reflects vision of NACC – and many others
- Vision, July/August 2021
- Trauma recovery center creates safe environment for patients
- Trauma-informed care: Another tool for chaplains’ box
- Research offers clues for delivering trauma-informed care
- ‘What happened to you?’ is the key question after a trauma
- Police chaplain delivers trauma care in the places where it’s needed
- Trauma-informed care has become a necessary part of chaplaincy
- Vision, September-October 2021
- Physician office workers appreciate blessing of hands ceremony
- A world in labor: Present trauma may lead us to something better
- Chaplains give valuable input on religious exemption requests
- Telechaplaincy is here to stay
- Chaplains create ritual to help nursing staff cope with COVID losses
- Awareness of God’s love helps interactions with other people
- Compassion for the unvaccinated remains necessary in spiritual care
- March-April 2021
- Through a year of quarantine, hope has remained constant
- How has a year of pandemic changed me?
- Pandemic anniversary ceremonies offer chance to reflect
- Pandemic didn’t stop patient from making peace with his life
- Resiliency practices: Evidence-based interventions that inspire hope
- Mutual listening sessions help nurses cope with heartache
- Biography of CPE pioneer Boisen draws on new material
- VA works to build veterans’ resilience in pandemic
- May-June 2021
- Support for Catholic prison ministry moves forward
- Effective prison ministry depends on minister’s approach
- Twenty years in correctional chaplaincy: Sharing humanity and setting boundaries
- Parish-based jail ministry is rooted in local community
- Ministry to released prisoners means facing their private hell
- Attention, white prison volunteers: Systemic racism is real
- Jail chaplains minister to all walks of life
- NACC sponsors new pathways to prepare for prison ministry
- Which character in the prodigal son parable are you going to be?
- Index of Vision authors
- January-February 2018
- 2018 plenary speakers cover many disciplines
- Before crisis hits, build trust with community clergy
- Chaplains minister throughout California wildfires
- Disaster preparation reminds us of life’s fragility
- First responder to Orlando nightclub shooting considers lessons learned
- How do chaplains address ethical issues after a disaster?
- Hurricane Harvey forces system to put plans into action
- Lessons learned on the run from Hurricane Katrina
- Listening with the heart breaks down barriers of belief
- So you want to volunteer? Start here.
- Deploying to a disaster: Pack lightly, be flexible, care for yourself
- January-February 2019
- Anointing of the sick gains meaning with others present
- Christmas lights help wife face new reality
- Education about advance directives can pay dividends later
- Ethics and end-of-life care: Embracing the mystery
- Hear My Voice: Patients get a chance to put their legacy on paper
- Mementoes of children’s lives help parents through grief
- Money, money, money: Serving God, not mammon, at the end of life
- Naming our beloved: A day of honoring loved ones’ grief
- New, improved palliative care guidelines enhance view of spirituality
- The beginnings of palliative care: Teamwork, respect, self-awareness
- The view from 88: The passing of friends and the passage of time
- January-February 2020
- Chaplains offer safe space to veterans with PTSD and addiction
- Dying veteran confronts moral injury as ALS worsens
- Honoring the health care needs of our nation’s veterans
- Horses and dogs help re-integrate veterans into society
- Hospitals honor veterans’ service in life and death
- Memories of discipline define the veteran experience
- Military sexual trauma may scar veterans’ lives
- NACC embraces new, official role in ministry to veterans
- Prayer ritual helps cancer-stricken vet resolve moral injury
- Social workers help meet veterans’ inner and outer needs
- VA medical center offers hope and healing across generations
- January-February 2021
- Chaplains can address politics in the workplace – very carefully
- Hearing racism, chaplains can say many things – but do say something
- Inner silence helps chaplains navigate interpersonal chaos
- As families absorb bad news, chaplains stand in the middle ground
- How does a chaplain answer in the midst of an argument ?
- If you’re being introduced to a racist: What would Jesus do?
- Jesus and the Samaritan woman model how to bridge gaps
- July-August 2018
- Bishop Vann: Bearing the cloak of love and mercy
- Boissy shares stories of empathy and studies of satisfaction
- Case study research points way forward for chaplaincy
- Collaborative conference is a taste of things to come
- Gross addresses he(art) and science of collaboration
- Healing service washes participants in love
- James Mason: Hearing is not enough
- NACC business meeting considers future initiatives
- Newly certified chaplain finds conference is where she was meant to be
- Palliative care workshop represents another collaboration landmark
- Successful conference took contributions from many volunteers
- The missioning ceremony:
Memories of a call - Two associations, one conference, many special moments
- July-August 2019
- Business meeting: How to attract more and younger chaplains?
- Cardinal Cupich leads Sunday Mass
- Conference moves NACC toward collaboration goals
- Conference visitor finds new connections and calls to ministry
- NACC honors three outstanding contributors
- Newly certified chaplain finds growing edge in beautiful setting
- Newly certified chaplains celebrate in a spiritual setting
- Panel discussion: Where does pastoral care go from here?
- Pre-conference retreat: Time to breathe, to rest, to remember
- Robert Mundle: The power of genuine listening
- Sacred space enhances sacrament of anointing
- Workshops fill the spaces in between convening
- Zeni Fox: Taking the very long view of lay leadership
- July-August 2020
- Autobiographical book serves as introduction to Ignatian spirituality
- Being present with no agenda helps in grief – and other situations
- Grief: Our ally in ministry, our companion in loss
- Grieving for our pre-pandemic lives is normal
- Now chaplains, and everyone, need to work through disillusionment
- Pandemic time is chrysalis stage to create something new
- Patients can reframe suffering as chance to make meaning
- Patients who can’t communicate have spiritual needs, too
- Scripture offers further thoughts about how we handle grief
- Shared grief can help people and communities grow
- Virtual chaplain circle offers support in time of loss
- We need new rituals to acknowledge our losses
- March-April 2018
- Chaplain in outpatient office gets reimbursement for ‘the conversation’
- Chaplains should know advance directive laws in their state
- Chaplains’ skills are suited to the advance directive conversation
- Ethical and Religious Directives can help form care plan
- How one advance care meeting led to three directives
- POLST might help more patients get the care they want
- Psychiatric advance directive might help patients with mental illness
- Spiritual care treatise goes beyond medical records
- The Communion of Saints: A fresh look at a traditional belief
- The Five Wishes serve as helpful planning tool
- Advance care planning takes hold across a system and a region
- March-April 2019
- Caring for the caregivers on the front lines of trafficking
- Human trafficking has become a healthcare issue
- Human trafficking: Implications for Chaplains
- ICD-10 codes will raise awareness, gather data on trafficking
- Medical advocate role helps trafficking survivors
- Printed protocols help staff screen for trafficking victims
- The many faces of trafficking: A survivor’s story
- Trafficking is wide-ranging, but resources are available
- March-April 2020
- When the gift can’t be received: The double loss of organ rejection
- Advance directives make ideal time to plan organ donation
- Dementia communication tools will benefit professionals
- End of life and organ donation may look different to Muslims
- Ethics of organ donation range across many realms
- More people considering organ donation while alive
- Organ procurement groups can collaborate with chaplains
- Parents choose to share their son with others in need
- Pastorally sensitive process helps families understand neurological death
- Priest’s gift of kidney to parishioner gives everyone new outlook on life
- Research literature sheds light on organ donation process
- Weight of history works against African-American donations
- May-June 2018
- Acknowledge ‘dumb God talk,’ and get past it
- Craving wholeness:
The complexity of addiction - Dual diagnosis of addiction, mental illness presents extra problems
- For many of us, the epidemic is personal
- Informed hope: Chaplains’ powerful tool in the opioid epidemic
- Joint conference with APC will offer education, growth, and fun
- My long night’s journey into day
- Plenary speaker lineup addresses conference’s four themes
- Research on opioid addiction and spiritual care yields mixed results
- Roots of crisis might lie in spiritual public health
- May-June 2019
- A lifetime of perspective: Retired chaplains share their insights
- Aging happens to all of us (including the NACC)
- Communicating in the language of dementia
- Evidence-based spiritual care for elderly patients: Insights from research
- Older adults find spirituality in community
- Theological anthropology: Reclaiming personhood for people living with dementia
- Training Eucharistic ministers gives retired priests new ministry
- Verbatims prepare pastoral care ministers for home visits
- Working with older adults benefits chaplain, too
- May-June 2020
- Articles from early in pandemic still feed our minds and spirits
- At this time, numbness is nature’s gift to us
- Contemplating death on Easter Monday in the time of COVID
- Coronavirus also changes prison ministry
- COVID recovery: A member’s story
- COVID-19 and Catholic social teaching: Choose life
- Fear and faith in response to the coronavirus
- Hospital staff find ways to cope with stress of COVID
- In the midst of pandemic, the normal remains
- Letting go of the daffodils
- Ministry by phone offers connection to nursing home residents
- Moment of grace keeps chaplain going in pandemic
- Remote pastoral care: From St. Paul to telechaplaincy
- Stretching our capacities includes adapting to online funerals
- Welcome to a new Vision for new times
- Who else faced this kind of volatility and uncertainty? The apostles.
- ‘Grief kits’ help assure families that loved ones in hospital are not alone
- ‘Wounded healer’ label fits better than ‘heroes’
- November-December 2017
- When a child dies:
Transforming the sterile into sacred - The holy movement:
Ministering to families in the ED - What traits make a good emergency chaplain?
- Conflict mediation is part of chaplain’s job in ED
- Chaplain on Code Blue team faces unique challenges
- Caring for ED staff takes time and trust
- Spiritual care helps save ED staff from burnout
- Research Update:
Spiritual Care in Emergency Medicine - Associate certification begins in 2018
- Acceptance and commitment therapy unites spirit and psychology
- When a child dies:
- November-December 2018
- Venezuelan refugees pouring across Colombian border share food and fellowship
- African refugees in France get an accompanying presence
- Along with ministry, advocate to change the system
- College chaplain suffers with undocumented students
- How do we minister to refugees? With the skills we have
- Immigration attorneys offer guidance for spiritual care providers
- Listen to immigrants’ stories with cultural humility
- Ministry in a detention center from the inside out
- Renewal of certification: Here’s what you need to know
- Two backpacks: A story of death and life on the border
- November-December 2019
- Authors’ idea of ‘new happiness’ has been around for millennia
- Emergency baptisms and blessings range across faiths and cultures
- Fragility is part of the miracle of birth
- Hospital staff can alleviate NICU parents’ stress
- Ministry after miscarriage supports women and partners
- Regular perinatal burial service honors families’ loss
- Spiritual care in the perinatal space: Evidence from research
- Spiritual support of pediatric staff takes many forms
- With love and openness, infant’s death won’t traumatize siblings
- November-December 2020
- 15-minute daily pause is enough to improve mental health
- As pandemic challenges minds and spirits, we find new ways to cope
- As pandemic challenges minds and spirits, we find new ways to cope
- Chaplains can help families work through grief
- How to celebrate the new year at a safe distance – and other COVID-19 rituals
- Love wins. Prayer works. The spirit survives.
- Pandemic puts unique strains on pediatric hospitals
- Pandemic strains our mental health in unexpected ways
- Telechaplaincy represents new opportunity for parish ministry
- Virtual rituals help families cope with loss
- ‘One day at a time,’ we can get through anything
- September-October 2018
- Catholic outreach fits into NACC’s strategic plan
- Collaboration across Catholic agencies has come a long way
- Elder ministry training could be bridge to CPE
- Following the call from Communion minister to BCC
- For better or for worse, a lot of Richard Rohr
- Healthcare Chaplaincy and Prison Chaplaincy:
Two Sides of the Same Coin - If science predicts when you will die, how does that affect your spirit?
- In Houston, more chaplains, more volunteers, more coordination
- Support of pastoral care could follow model for parish ministry
- Training program lets parishes send out volunteers with confidence
- Volunteers in Diocese of Dallas get greater opportunities
- What matters at the end of life
- Working across ministries earns bishops’ appreciation
- September-October 2019
- A spiritual intervention for pain palliation
- Chaplains can advocate for proper pain management
- Chaplains can ease patients’ fears of opioid addiction
- Giving meaning to suffering helps create healing
- Listening compassionately to the pain and suffering of elders
- Out of Rwandan genocide, a Tutsi priest offers forgiveness
- Art and nature can help patients manage their pain
- Emotional pain may spill over into body or spirit
- Listening to residents’ concerns helps alleviate spiritual pain
- Spiritual care can make a difference for patients in chronic pain
- Spiritual inputs from brain can modify physical pain
- When does pain serve a useful function?
- When pain can’t be fixed, presence remains
- September-October 2020
- Beyond competence: Cultural humility means lifelong openness
- Chaplains’ skills of listening are tool to address racism
- Fighting racism also has to happen from within
- Interracial marriage offers firsthand look at racism – and numbness
- Micro-aggressions represent the subtle side of racism
- Seeing grief but missing anger: A moment of cultural learning
- Unpacking a knapsack full of privileges
- When so many can’t breathe, chaplains witness to the breath of God
- White people, recognize the racist water we swim in
- “Not from you”: Direct racism is still with us
- “Where are you from?” is a loaded question
- July-August 2017
- Behavioral health patients in the emergency department get interdisciplinary approach
- Breaking the sound barrier: Chaplains, speech therapists help stroke survivors
- Chaplain and case manager collaborate on difficult patient
- Chaplains need skill and confidence to write effective chart notes
- Chaplains’ interdisciplinary role has made progress
- Doubt becomes opportunity to grow in faith
- How do others on the team use chaplains?
- Interdisciplinary chaplains: Perspectives from research
- Pediatric team of specialists help each other work better
- Physician and chaplain team up for patients with heart failure
- The interdisciplinary team model: Clinician perspectives
- Transdisciplinary care:
The next frontier
- May-June 2017
- A Diverse Set of Workshops
- Business meeting: Past successes, future opportunities
- Every year, conference brings renewal and fellowship
- Is research part of our Emmaus journey?
- Literary dialogue partner invites reframing of story
- Love is Contagious: Anointing
- Many paths, one truth; many faiths, one God
- Megan McKenna: Walking the road, telling the story
- NACC’s road to Emmaus covers a lot of ground
- Newly certified chaplains get warm welcome
- On the road to interpretation
- Recognition for Nancy Cook, George Fitchett, Cecille Asekoff
- Restored and renewed
- Reyes offers catalytic conversions with conversing narratives
- Wind of the Spirit pushes retreat participants
- ‘Art of Dying’ translates imperfectly to secular age
- September-October 2017
- Facilitation skills necessary in many settings
- How has the certification procedure changed?
- Learning to see through the door
- NACC certification: Meeting the hardest competencies
- Revised competencies took a lot of work and collaboration
- Skill at assessments carries many other benefits
- Summer institute makes research more accessible
- Understanding organization’s culture helps to cope with change
- Understanding the business of healthcare
- What does endorsement for ministry mean?
- January-February 2017
- Creating a culture of patient- and family-centered care:
The role of chaplains - Finding the spirituality
in all of life - Home care ministry includes family caregivers, too
- Spiritual Care in a Public Healthcare System
- Spiritual care helped this son say goodbye
- Rituals help patients and family mark turning points
- Ceremonies let families say goodbye after miscarriage
- Chaplains can help families make difficult decisions
- Young caregivers
need to be recognized - Ministry to families:
What the research tells us - Ministry to Families at End of Life: Chaplaincy 360
- What awaits you at the NACC conference?
- Creating a culture of patient- and family-centered care:
- March-April 2017
- The End of the Island provides companionship on our journey
- Catholic collaborations extend NACC’s reach
- Cooperation vs. collaboration: A black Lab explains
- Five cognate groups unite to revise Common Standards
- Four associations put egos aside to revise writing guide
- Looking back at a decade of collaboration with CHA
- NACC participates in Transforming Chaplaincy
- Partners in Planning: How can quality spiritual care spread outward?
- Partnerships help NACC accomplish more
- Research collaboration also yields personal growth
- Spiritual care speaks with one voice to The Joint Commission
- Vision archives
- Vision Seeks Writers, Researchers
- Fr. Joe Driscoll’s column archives (1997-2003)
- January-February 2013
- Author’s gift for storytelling evident in new book
- Certification timeline has changed over the years
- Changes made in NACC certification, renewal of certification, certification appeals procedures
- Chaplains on mobile integrated care teams transmitted hope, peace to Sandy survivors
- Collaboration along nation’s border means listening, self-renewal, redefining roles
- Disaster victims minister to fellow victims of Sandy
- Embrace anew call to be people of hope at 2013 NACC National Conference
- Family, chaplain, rabbi plan bedside wedding on Oncology Unit
- Featured Volunteer: Kathleen Brady, OP
- Featured Volunteer: Ed Horvat
- Home hospice far from home: A transformative journey marked by sadness, intimacy, grace
- In 2013, chaplains called to reach into communities, beyond walls of institutions
- Indiana medical center chaplains find new partners in ministry
- Logistics can complicate clergy collaboration, but meaningful connections worth the effort
- Outreach into community:
Creating collaboration through the skills of chaplaincy - Poor benefit from interdenominational collaboration at community hospital
- Research abstracts
- Serving with American Red Cross a true privilege
- Sharing stories: A life’s journey inscribed, a day of blessing
- January-February 2014
- 2014 NACC National Conference to be entryway to strategic, compassionate leadership
- A Basketful of Hearts
- A Letter to Laurie Hansen Cardona
- Book offers insights for chaplains, reflections on ethics, spiritual care
- Book reveals vibrant faith lived out amid struggle, poverty
- Changing lives changes chaplain’s life, too
- Chaplains key component of developing palliative care programs at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa
- Featured Volunteer:
Deacon Thomas J. Berna, BCC - Featured Volunteer:
Judith A. Shemkovitz - Get out the word on benefits of palliative care
- Goodbye Laurie!
Welcome back, David! - Ma couldn’t miss granddaughter’s wedding
- Matching treatment plans to patient goals involves piecing together patient puzzle
- Opportunities, challenges abound on
interdisciplinary palliative care team - Palliative care and hospice:
a new NACC specialty certification - Palliative care is ‘extra blanket of care’ that builds trust, strengthens relationships
- Physician finds teamwork helps palliative care patients and families
- Q and A with
Cynthia X. Pan, MD, AGSF, FACP - Reflection on forgiveness in pastoral and palliative care: A case study
- The Empty Chair
- Wedding celebrated in hospital unit where ‘death hovers’
- When end of life is near life’s start, palliative care helps family members embrace short time they have together
- ‘Till Death Do Us Part’:
Three weddings in palliative care - ‘Yes,’ is best response to requests for spiritual, religious care
- January-February 2015
- 2015 brings yearlong celebration of NACC’s jubilee
- Certification applicants have a year to adjust to new standards
- Chaplain Overboard!
- Conference time is drawing near; please register!
- Congratulations to our newly-certified members!
- Helpful resources for CPE supervisors and Catholic students
- History and mission of NACC ignite passions
- In the future, certification may not mean competency
- Palliative care and hospice now have specialty standards
- Questions and answers about the revised NACC Standards
- Standards call for research-informed co-workers
- Standards Commission takes pride in revisions
- The Approval of Standards – A USCCB Perspective
- Why did we revise our Certification Standards and Procedures?
- January-February 2016
- Advance care planning helps patients in palliative care
- Chicago offers deep, rich Catholic presence
- Chicago: Your, my, our kind of town!
- Journey to palliative certification took many steps
- Massage therapist’s ministry to homeless presented revelations
- Palliative care chaplains must understand their vulnerabilities
- Palliative Care Needs
for Persons on Dialysis
and Implications for Chaplains - Palliative care patients find sources of meaning
- Palliative care standards aim to produce qualified practitioners
- Palliative care standards help to develop confident chaplains
- Pediatric pastoral care
is also for the parents - Supportive Care Coalition promotes excellence in palliative care
- Three common myths about palliative care
- We have time to adjust to change in NACC Revised Standards
- July-August 2013
- Book Review:
The Best of Being Catholic - CHA president says chaplains model loving concern of God
- Chaplains learn history, hear about recent disaster responses at Disaster Spiritual Care training
- Conference call offered to allay concerns of certification interviewees
- Conference-goers give more than ,900 to Pittsburgh’s Operation Safety Net
- Drumming by the river: The healing power in the heartbeat of the drum
- Featured Volunteer: Fr. John (Jack) T. Crabb, SJ
- Featured Volunteer: Nancy Cook, MDiv, MSW, BCC
- For first-timer, attending conference was a true ‘chaplain’s holiday’
- Jesuit calls on chaplains to be competent
- Karen Pugliese, ‘woman of passion,’ receives 2013 Distinguished Service Award
- Latina theologian focuses on grace-filled moments in ‘messiness’ of daily life
- Multiple models suggested for determining adequate chaplain staffing
- NACC honors Bishop Dale Melczek with the Outstanding Colleague Award
- NACC membership evolving, plan in place to create ‘resilient’ organization, streamline governance, certification
- Paradigm shift for pastoral providers: Use pilot programs to take spiritual care beyond hospital walls
- Powers of forgiveness, love essential in people’s lives, Father Goergen says
- Research leads to insight, understanding, ‘a place at the table’
- Response by Bishop Dale Melczek, recipient of NACC’s Outstanding Colleague Award
- What’s kicking at Certification Commission meeting?
- You are there! Mass, missioning of newly certified in Pittsburgh a moving, sensory experience
- Book Review:
- July-August 2014
- 2014 Board of Directors Election
- Business meeting welcomes new board members
- Chris Lowney: Chaplains’ leadership is vital
- Conference’s disaster training and deployment enrich each other
- Services for new chaplains, healing offer special moments
- Another fulfilling, renewing conference is in the books
- Conference offers space for workshops, reunions, friendships, worship
- Going Retro: Considering the art of dying at the 2014 NACC Day of Reflection
- Journey to certification took unexpected final step
- Spiritual care is medicine’s missing element, Sulmasy says
- Sr. Patricia Talone:
Mercy, justice, and compassion at the bedside - Tracy Balboni:
Research Critical in Compassionate Care
- July-August 2015
- Assessment tool helps evaluate chart notes
- Chaplain Encounters: Suffering child’s compassion can teach adults
- CPE students learn to see charting as part of ministry
- Efforts to improve spiritual care can help whole institution
- Entering the World of Charting and Spiritual Assessments – by Mary M. Toole
- How do we measure quality in charting?
- How do you chart if the patient is reading your notes?
- Looking under the hood: Documentation of spiritual care
- Paper and electronic systems both struggle with drawbacks
- See you next spring in Chicago for the NACC conference!
- Seven Narratives for Chaplain Charts
- System’s self-examination leads to better chart notes
- July-August 2016
- A good strategic plan can help your department thrive
- A leadership path interrupted
- Chaplains’ leadership may come in unconventional forms
- Clergywomen work through trauma of perinatal bereavement
- Conflict with a supervisor can end constructively
- Leadership Begins at the Heart: Reflections of a Novice Leader
- Many leadership qualities overlap strengths of spiritual care
- Many paths — and pitfalls — on the way to leadership
- Pastoral leadership means feeding and tending
- Reflection, action … and even more reflection
- “Laying track as I go”: The chaplain as entrepreneur
- March-April 2013
- Collaborative inquiry: An accessible, relevant approach to chaplaincy research
- Critical need for research unabated; thankfully new efforts abound
- Many essays strong, but handbook lacks editorial vigilance
- Q and A with D.W. Donovan
- Research in chaplaincy: Where we are now, and where we are going
- The Easter moment: Easter’s meaning in the context of hospital chaplaincy
- Top reason to embrace evidence-based chaplaincy care is to improve spiritual care
- When embarking on research, mentor can be immensely helpful
- Years after Dad’s lesson at the beach, research continues to spark curiosity
- March-April 2014
- Book review:
A practical theology of dementia - Book review:
Establishing and exploring the field of ‘neurotheology’ - Chaplain at Newtown and Boston knew she wasn’t alone
- Conference speaker Balboni has published significant research on spirituality, illness
- CPR, dignity, and choices at the end of life
- Deployments after Missouri and Oklahoma tornadoes reveal despair and resilience
- Disaster chaplaincy in the research literature
- Featured Volunteer: Kay Gorka
- Featured Volunteer: Matthew Kammer
- Fifteen years of helping Red Cross respond with compassion to disasters
- For chaplains at disaster scenes, self-care is vital
- Gratitude for our NACC members, and all chaplains, involved in Disaster Spiritual Care
- Ministering to same-sex couples in healthcare settings
- New-old editor returns to Vision
- Responding to tornadoes in Missouri and Oklahoma brings renewed sense of grace and love
- Spirit of St. Louis:
Reflections of a Conference Task Force Member - Watching Red Cross respond to disaster offers inspiration
- We announce a new 2014 Conference speaker, Tracy Balboni
- Book review:
- March-April 2015
- A personal Egypt:
Passover offers chance to seek other freedoms - Aging parents, ancient wounds come to life in cartoon memoir
- Certification in the NACC:
From two-week workshop to full professionalism - Companion on a journey
to the end of life - For our 50 years, let’s celebrate and be grateful
- Invitations from others led to rich NACC experience
- Leading NACC was unexpected challenge and blessing
- The NACC in midlife: How do we make it count?
- The privilege of chaplaincy
- Walk-through-abandoned-unit-brings-memories-of-ministry-By-Mary-Lou-OGorman
- We’ve come a long way, baby!
- A personal Egypt:
- March-April 2016
- Behavioral health staffers face unique issues of moral distress
- Case studies may shake chaplains out of their routine
- Conditions in pediatric hospital ripe for moral distress
- Family meeting resolves son’s moral dilemma
- Healing from the Inside Out
- Moral distress, up close and personal
- Moral Distress: Are There Solutions?
- Others offer valuable resources for moral distress
- Out of chaotic hospital scene, love and hope emerge
- Relationships built in long-term care may lead to moral distress
- Study of resilience can benefit chaplains and patients
- Support group gives nurses a chance to process feelings
- What does the literature tell us about moral distress?
- What is moral distress? An overview
- May-June 2013
- A case study: Using mantras in pastoral care to help patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Assist the mentally ill to live full lives:
- Book review: Let Your Voice Be Heard
- Book review: The Cost of Hope
- Chaplain finds a path to hope with haiku
- Chaplains can let mentally ill know they don’t walk alone
- Discovering spirituality in an addiction detox/rehab unit
- Encouraging God helps us navigate starts, stops of new beginnings
- Featured Volunteer: Kathy Ponce
- Featured Volunteer:
Timothy John Doody - Four lines of pastoral inquiry aid chaplains to ‘comprehend the human soul’
- It’s time for Chaplain Group!
- Q & A with Donna Markham, OP, PhD
- Relationship key to integrating spirituality though small group meditation
- Research Abstracts: Ministry to the mentally ill
- We need to better inform ourselves about mental health care
- Welcome to two members of NACC’s Editorial Advisory Panel: Elaine Chan and Isabelita Boquiren
- May-June 2014
- Beyond theodicy: Let emotional support shape reaction to suffering
- Book review: Jesus Was a Migrant
- Book review: What’s So Blessed About Being Poor?
- Can chaplains reduce a hospital’s readmission rate?
- Categorizing CEUs for Renewal of Certification
- Conference outlines research agenda for spiritual care
- NACC promotes awareness of chaplaincy’s value
- The case for chaplaincy: If not me, then who?
- The value of chaplaincy? Priceless
- What is the value of CPE to an institution?
- What we hold: Chaplaincy’s ministry to institutions
- May-June 2015
- Anointing service offers profound reassurance
- Business meeting unveils new logo, takes hard look at membership
- Certification Commission welcomes new members, new specialty
- Conference honors the gift of 50 years of ministry
- Day of reflection offers many forms of prayer
- Driscoll thanks NACC for memories, charting new ground
- Finding God in the NACC National Conference
- NACC Conference –
Guided by the Spirit - NACC members honor the gift of streamed conference speeches
- Newly certified feel warmth of others’ welcome
- Plenary speaker Garrido finds meaning in administration
- Potential disaster responders learn to be flexible
- Sociologist discusses chaplaincy’s current place in healthcare
- Vatican reporter describes pillars of the Francis agenda
- Widening the tent: Conference workshops give primer on research
- May-June 2016
- Anointing of the spirit; anointing of community
- Carol Taylor: When cure is off the table…
- Conference 2016:
Chaplains make new connections, illuminations, and spirits - Disaster Spiritual Care: A feeling of gratitude
- Embracing the divine milieu: The NACC Conference retreat
- Fitchett describes present and future of spiritual care research
- Jewish wisdom book offers guidance for growing older
- Life-giving relationships sustain newly certified chaplain
- Love yourself as you love others, White reminds audience
- NACC business meeting considers new directions
- Newly certified chaplains feel grace of missioning ceremony
- Pastoral psychotherapy resource can help chaplains
- Sofield finds the humor of resilience
- The steps we take
to make all things new
- November-December 2012
- 2013 NACC National Conference plenary speakers announced
- A time of change, a season of thanks
- Chaplaincy in long-term and short-term home care: Advantages, disadvantages and challenges
- Chaplaincy services offered at subsidized housing communities
- Dying patients thrive on ‘own turf’
- For many, home hospice means life lived in a richer way
- Furry feline visited lonely, comforted dying
- How are we perceived in the workplace?
- Life’s graces: Those in assisted living minister to me
- Outpatient ministry allows chance to build more relationships
- Teamwork, interdisciplinary efforts especially important in hospice work
- Therapy dog Henrietta a favorite
- November-December 2013
- 2014 NACC conference to focus on compassionate leadership
- A history of using visuals
to teach the Gospel - Advent is time to reflect on how to imitate Christ
- Beyond a sequence of sounds: Healing music reaches ‘secret places of the soul’
- Chaplain uses iPad to calm, soothe and educate
- Chaplain-harp therapist witnesses unfolding grace of God
- Do you recognize ‘Big Brother god,’ ‘Egghead god,’ or ‘Genie god’?
- Former music therapist sees power of music to provide insights, but cautious about its use with patients
- From singing at the bedside
to commissioning the CEO,
opportunities abound for
music in pastoral care ministry - Hymns’ meaningful words speak volumes to dying
- In Seattle, holiness revealed in song and through artwork
- Playing it by ear:
Music background proves to be powerful assist in chaplaincy work - Research Abstracts By Austine Duru
- Song, guided meditations, perseverance lead to God in psychiatric unit
- The Voice: Not just a TV show
- Therapeutic effects of Native American flute evident in older adults
- Years as chaplain have been ‘grace-filled’
- November-December 2014
- 2015 50th Anniversary Conference Theme: Honoring the Gift
- Book review: Mortal Blessings. A Sacramental Farewell
- Chaplains can serve valuable role on ethics committee
- Comprehensive senior care also includes in-home spiritual care
- Explore the gift of a good workshop
- Focus on patients’ spiritual health, not distress
- Four noted plenary speakers to honor 50th anniversary conference
- Healthcare executives walk a difficult line
- Outpatient chaplaincy:
Mercy goes where
the people are - Seeking, Finding: Advent helps nurture the waiting heart
- Spiritual care providers can find a new basket of skills – by Janet Stark
- Telechaplaincy: Personal (but not in-person) spiritual care
- We’d like names of deceased NACC members
- What does personal integration look like in a certified chaplain?
- November-December 2015
- After drifting away from spirit, “wellness” needs to come back
- Breath prayer brings God into the body
- Chaplains must model self-care for other staffers
- Chaplains promote spiritual wellness as foundation
- Community finally accepts woman’s wish for natural death
- Conference can fill your soul with laughter, praise and wisdom
- Eucharistic ministers need chance to absorb spiritual hospitality
- History and mission of the NACC inspires gratitude
- Investigating Spiritual Well-Being: Insights from Research
- Learn your limits to avoid burnout
- Let’s think more broadly about spirituality of wellness
- Plenary speakers to address themes of conference
- Schwartz Center rounds help alleviate moral distress
- Take a moment to reflect and bless your cell phone
- Talking to true friend offers hint of divine presence
- Teaching gratitude and forgiveness improves patients’ lives
- November-December 2016
- 2017 Conference Speakers
- Common Qualifications and Competencies are ready to go
- Conference offers diverse array of workshops
- Dementia: The testimony of silence
- Doubt: A meaningful part of Mother Teresa’s story
- Essays use the voice of women to seek justice for all
- Mental illness affects everyone
- Mental patients’ families seek peace in the storm
- Plot lines: Allegories of recovery help adolescents
- Prison worship helps cope with mental illness
- Repeat mental patients strain staff’s compassion
- Spiritual care and mental health: What the research tells us
- Toxic religion: The unhealthy relationship of “bad theology” to mental illness
- Young offenders rebuild relationships in group therapy
- September-October 2013
- An Epic year in review: The positive and negative in terms of electronic health records
- Book offers parents of seriously ill children practical tips, inspirational material
- Chaplains interact, learn from each other on new online network
- Email conversations in CPE lead to deepened connections, friendship
- Featured Volunteer: Fr. Timothy F. Bushy
- Featured Volunteer: Linda Anne Bronersky
- How can chaplains explain what we do?
- In-house media access system brings prayer, music, relaxation to patients
- iSpirit helps chaplains reach patients in new ways
- Journey home: A dying man’s honored guest
- May we be pioneers in discovering social media benefits
- New palliative care certification, interviewing concerns discussed
- Research Abstracts
- Resource-packed chapplain
appscan enrich ministry - Technology indispensable, social media helpful in promoting chaplaincy work
- The rise in social media about end of life and its impact on chaplaincy knowledge and practice
- Today’s professional chaplain must stay current, set new goals as ministries evolve
- Upcoming upgrades: Using tools to make connections
- ‘Meet me in St. Louis’ in May 2014
- September-October 2014
- As chaplains, let’s find existing needs to meet
- Cast your vote for the NACC’s Board of Directors
- Certification Commission reviews recent interviews
- CPE Lite: Forming pastoral chaplaincy volunteers
- Effective pastoral visitors transcend language to meet spiritual needs
- Eucharistic minister finds rewards in hospital setting
- From Everlasting to Everlasting
- Letter:
Telling doctors to leave isn’t productive - Song to the Caregivers
- The balancing act of chaplaincy: Pastoral, personal, professional and financial
- Thinking outside the hospital for models of pastoral care
- Washington area offers plenty of sights, activities during 2015 conference
- September-October 2015
- Working in low-income rural clinic demands new skills
- Chaplains need to know church’s Ethical and Religious Directives
- CPE curriculum focuses on pastoral formation
- Joint efforts with cognate groups will enhance CPE
- Healthcare changes require students and certified chaplains to be flexible
- Internal family systems: Understanding the self using parts theory
- Conference 2016: Making All Things New – by Rod Accardi
- NAJC’s Jerusalem conference offers new perspectives
- Honoring diverse traditions helps build relationships
- As healthcare landscape
changes, so does chaplaincy - Congratulate our newly certified chaplains
- September-October 2016
- A perfect Buddhist stranger in a different country
- Caring across cultures: Programs and projects to promote diversity
- Chaplaincy and Hinduism: Two helpful links
- Chaplaincy and the Cry for Mercy
- Culture must be studied and learned, Gittins says
- Jewish patients: Overcoming the barrier of self-protection
- Literature from other disciplines addresses cultural competency
- Ministry to atheists or agnostics is meaningful in a different way
- Muslims are likely to welcome a Catholic chaplain
- Native American father gets chance to die with the sun on his face
- Online resources help chaplains learn cultural humility
- Our road to Emmaus leads through Albuquerque
- Respect the unique spirituality of the nonreligious
- Welcoming the stranger: Engaging diversity toward the beloved community
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- Whatever form an autistic person’s grief takes, acknowledge it
- Benefits of building emotional intelligence will ripple outward
- Chaplains’ skills translate well to address the ecological crisis
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