Sometimes chaplaincy is a contact sport. Healthcare workers face high rates of workplace violence. The bulk of it falls on nurses, CNAs, and other bedside staff and ED staff. Most of my encounters were in the ED. This week I got hit by a cane in a palliative consult. Abrasion+concussion.
Pop Quiz for chaplains and anyone:
What are the key differences between moral distress and moral injury?:
Blessed Easter! Christ is Risen! Death is swallowed up!
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Holy Saturday is the day between death and hope. It's the silence before scan results. The quiet before Shahed drones slam into hospitals. The mute plea of starving children. The horror we have no words for. Holy Saturday reminds us God is there too, in Hell pulling people from the literal pit.
For Holy Saturday:
"There is great silence on earth today, stillness. The whole earth keeps silent. The earth trembles and is still because God has died and raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh-Hell and Death trembles in fear."
I'm not losing my early church fathers and mothers cred.
Death is normal and natural. Grief is normal and natural. Advanced directives and plannings are vital discussions to have with family and providers.
Death is a common and meaningful experience. ⚓️
A good death is possible and desirable. 🛟
Advance Care Planning is great, and everyone should do it. 🩺
Grief is normal, and it can be treated for better outcomes. 🧠
Seriously. We need a chaplain and social worker to handle them. With several referrals to psych.
While there is no chaplain on The Pitt. I'll at least get to teach some interns and residents all about chaplaincy and spiritual care this year as part of IDT clinical education. This will also include IPR. This nicely rounds out teaching CPE intensive and fall cohort.
A chaplain would attempt to make things functional. 😂 Also I don't care. When they are all on the locked unit on season 3 a chaplain could easily do IPR with them.
This right here. They've given them that job while also exploring PTSD and moral injury and burnout. Realistically on the show you can't have a chaplain because also this our job and to be *intimately* aware of our issues. Thanks to IPR!
Right exactly. Like no it's not a documentary, but the reality is as chaplains we'd be right in the middle of all this. Like especially after last week.
Social worker not a chaplain. Though our roles can overlap in some capacities they are different.
Chaplains aren't on The Pitt. We are present in traumas, codes, for dying patients. We work with patients and families ane as liaisons between ED staff and family. We provide support to staff dealing with: PTSD, trauma, and moral injury. You see why we aren't on the show. 💀
Happy MATCH Week! It's my favorite time of the year as a hospital chaplain and educator!
I want to lock The Pitt characters in a room and introduce them to Interpersonal Relationships (IPR.)
No volunteers?
ROBBY let's start with you. Trinity don't worry about your charting you're up after.
Also where the fuck is the chaplain on this show?
Republicans officially going with "Jesus was a beta" as their attack line for Talarico.
Turn back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways,
Old now is earth, and none may count her days,
Age after age their tragic empires rise.
Built while they dream, and in their dreaming weep,
Would man but wake from out his haunted sleep,
Earth might be fair, and all men glad and wise.
"You have no cards."
Spending part of Lent as a patient on the oncology unit where I work. Was not part of my plan this week. However I'm battling a lingering infection that needs the big antibiotic guns with a side of steroids. With luck I'll be home in time to preach on Sunday.
What do you think Renee Good and Alex Pretti were doing?
If you're horrified by footage of Bahrain and other countries hit with Iranian Shahed drones. Consider this is a nightly occurrence for Ukrainians and has been for years. Do you suddenly care now?
They advocate for use of generative AI in spiritual care and even in the use of grief bots and dead bots.
The sad irony is the creator of that tech that lost his mom is mired in complicated grief and it is in fact destroying his life based on the article. Dying is the most human thing as is mourning and grieving. Grief isn't a flaw to be fixed.
I'm a clinical pastoral educator. That's the fancy title to say I chaplain students (CPE students.) There is not nearly enough work done around the unethical aspects of AI. Yet chaplains are out here blithely using AI casually. I'm one of the 1st instructors to talk about AI.
I just needed to share the brain melt as I was reviewing things to add to CPE curriculum.
@chaplainjohn.medsky.social wouldn't want you to miss this! 🫠
We're killing the planet to deny the reality of grief and death. People wonder why I have an entire curriculum about the evils of AI and exploitation of vulnerable people I teach chaplaincy students. Pope Leo is one of the few to grasp the dangers of AI.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
4 years ago the genocidal invasion of Ukraine began. We remember the fallen, the murdered, the missing, the tortured. Ukraine will be free.