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Every chaplain who works a rotation eventually hands a case to someone else. A shift ends, a day off starts, an on-call rotation changes hands, and the family in room 412 is now someone else's to walk with. The quality of that handoff, not just the quality of either chaplain's individual visit, ofte...
Chaplain charting protects the person before it protects you. A good note captures what care was offered and what the person needs next, without exposing what they trusted you to hold. Write for the reader who has a right to the record, and guard everything that reader does not need.
Every note you...
A field guide for chaplains who want their charting to serve the person, not just the file.
You sat with a man in the ICU for forty minutes. He talked about his daughter, the one he has not spoken to in nine years. He cried once. Then he asked you to pray, and changed his mind. Now you are back at ...
