Course Description:

Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Time: 8:30 – 10:30 AM
Location: University of Kansas Health System
Speakers: Jeff Stegner, Chaplain, MDiv BCCC


Course Objectives:
This presentation will address the whole person care for the healthcare worker, the patient, and the family system using patient care as a model for self-care to inspire hope.
Healthcare providers experience moral dilemmas and spiritual distress. Events that occur in the clinical arena can conflict with personal values that led to the choice to become a healthcare provider. The learner will be provided strategies and skills for coping and thriving.
•   Connection as an aspect of whole person care
o   What is on the outside
o   Building trusting relationships
o   Communication strategies
o   Self-care strategies
•   Coherence as an aspect of whole person care for patients and providers
o   What is on the inside
o   Common humanity
o   Values leading to a choice to become a healthcare provider
o   Moral dilemmas and spiritual distresses that conflict with values
o   Interpretation of suffering
o   How to address

Participants will be able to:
1.   Adapt new ideas and tools related to values of caring, hand-in-hand care and humanism into professional practice and personal living.
2.   Delineate self-care strategies for the care team providing end-of-life care.
3.   Apply the health theory of coping to patients and personal care.
4.   Articulate resources to support the patient, family, and healthcare provider during the phases of end-of-life.
5.   Identify helpful and unhelpful communication strategies and statements.
6.   Delineate factors that impact and support the development of trusting relationships.