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- CPE residency program at Prisma Health
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is really one of our most exciting programs here.
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We're talking about an organization
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that sees over a million patients a year,
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18 hospitals, 2 trauma centers, 2 children's hospitals,
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and it's a rich clinical environment for CPE students.
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We talk about inspiring health, serving with compassion,
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and being the difference.
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And our residents every day
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get to enter the lives of our patients and families,
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the most meaningful times of their life,
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the most difficult and vulnerable times of their life.
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And one of the core elements of our CPE program
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is that we train students to enter the lives of people
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when they need support, the ability to be present
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and supportive at the darkest times of their lives.
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- Our residency program encompasses
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a total learning in the sense
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that we allow the space and time for students
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to work on their internal needs
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as a caregiver at the same time
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that they're working on their clinical skills.
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And so the students are able to go out
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and to do their work in the clinic,
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and they come back and process that work
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in their group setting and then have the opportunity
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to go back out and to experiment as they go along
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to make sure that they are continuing to grow
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both in their clinical skills
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but also in their interpersonal skills.
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- The key elements of our program
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here at Prisma Health and CPE lay on the foundation
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of us believing firmly that spiritual care is an art form.
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We work to develop the artists
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that are the students practicing spiritual care.
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We believe a successful CPE program means
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that they learn everything they can about themselves,
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so they go on the floors and encounter that work.
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We accomplish that here by the clinical method of learning.
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So students go on the floors
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and make visits and reflect on visits.
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And in the process of doing so,
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they learn so much about themselves, about their history,
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their celebrations in their lives,
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their ups, but also their painful moments.
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And learning and experiencing all of those
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and their history,
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we believe they're able to connect empathetically
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to the people on the floors doing the same work.
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- A resident experiences firsthand care
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at the bedside of patients and families
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that are going through multiple crises.
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Whether it be illness or physical ailments, mental ailments.
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A resident is able to meet with that patient,
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see that patient, and learn how to understand
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and hear what they're saying.
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A resident experiences many things during their time.
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You get out of this process what you put into it.
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Many of our students experience a lot of healing themselves
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as they are working on the process
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of how to engage healing with others.
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And so we do a lot of work around helping
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the student get to know themselves better.
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- Beowulf is a member of our interdisciplinary team.
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He's part of the canine fetch unit.
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He's the first adult therapy dog here,
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and he is the chaplain's dog.
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He comes alongside me,
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and we use him as an intervention
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to help with existential pain and suffering.
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Residents will often shadow me
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and then later work with me to learn
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how to work in an interdisciplinary context.
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And then some of the unique interventions
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that palliative care chaplains do,
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such as guiding family meetings
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about plans and goals of care.
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- What drew me to this residency program was
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as part of the interview process,
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I reached out to professionals
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that I knew in other parts of the country and said,
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"These are the folks that are running this program.
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What do you know about them?"
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And their response was,
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"That's a really good program.
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Those are some of the great folks in our profession
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of teaching people how to be chaplains.
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You will feel supported
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and like you are getting the best out of your residency."
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This program helps you to be introspective and to observe
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how you show up when you're caring for people.
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This program has helped me to learn more
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about authentically who I am, and I'm glad for that.
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- So working with the staff chaplains here,
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it's been very great.
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They've encouraged me to talk to them
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if I have any fears.
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They've been coaching me, giving me different materials.
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They're just showing me a lot,
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and they're still showing me how to do things,
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and just letting me know, "Hey, you're a part of the team."
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Everybody just seems to want to see you succeed,
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want to see you reach the goals
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- You said you wanted to reach when you got here.
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And you really chart your own course in this program
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for becoming a chaplain
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and for what you think a chaplain should be
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and look like and do in a day-to-day context.
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It's helped me reach career goals.
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It looks good on a resume.
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Personally, more important than that
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is just help me become a better human being.
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- One of the biggest things that benefits me as well
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as the patients is we're in this together collaboration
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where you are part of a team,
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where there's other people in the same boat with you,
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you can collaborate with them.
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And the staff as well,
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they really come alongside you to empower you
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and to help you to become a better chaplain.
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All that to say is
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that I've seen it firsthand making a difference
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in the clinic of I'm more confident as a chaplain.
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I'm owning my authority.
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I'm having that collaboration to help me see things,
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my blind sides that maybe I don't always see
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to be able to help my patient in a deeper way
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with their care, and not just to the patient,
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but family members too.
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- I've seen myself grow in this experience
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through a lot of self-reflection.
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It gave me the opportunity
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to take a deep dive into looking at myself.
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It also has given me insight of how I care for people.
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- So as a resident, I was mainly at Baptist.
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I went from the women's floor to seeing people in ICU
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to even being an orthopedic.
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So it was a breath of experience.
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And as I finished, what happened is I decided
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that I wanted to be more than a chaplain.
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I wanted to educate.
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I wanted to actually help others to do the same job.
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So after a year of the residency,
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I came back and was accepted.
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And it's been different, because I do continue
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to be a chaplain to patients and staff,
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but now a large part of my responsibility is
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to actually be with the students.
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- As a certified educator candidate,
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we all have a different theory
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for what our goals are for our students,
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what we focus on, what we try to do
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is help students become more self-aware
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so that when they leave here,
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regardless of whatever ministry setting they end up in,
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we believe that self-awareness leaves
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to a more whole person.
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And so my hope for students is
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that they know more about themselves
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and more about the options that they have in life.
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- My hope is that if they do choose clinical ministry
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as their calling and as what they would like to pursue,
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that we would be able to use some of our connections
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to be able to help them find jobs that they would thrive at
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within clinical settings and hospice settings.
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We are always a resource to any student
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that comes through this program even after they leave.
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- Prisma Health is a teaching hospital,
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so not only do we have chaplains who are residents,
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but we have medical residents
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and social work residents, psychology residents.
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Our goal is to fit into the mission of Prisma Health.
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We want to be the spiritual care gatekeepers
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for Prisma Health,
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and we want to continue to build our spiritual care program
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so that the impact on the overall organization is
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that we have a spiritual care department
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that meets the needs of the people in our communities.
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