Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call

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Understand the basic practical aspects of pastoral care—and make your visit to the sick meaningful for both of you! Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a useful handbook from a Christian perspective that provides the common sense and not-so-common answers to your questions on how best to minister to the sick. Drawing on his three decades of experience as a... Read more

Understand the basic practical aspects of pastoral care—and make your visit to the sick meaningful for both of you!

Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a useful handbook from a Christian perspective that provides the common sense and not-so-common answers to your questions on how best to minister to the sick. Drawing on his three decades of experience as a bedside hospital chaplain, the author explains appropriate and inappropriate behaviors and suggests things to say (or not to say) to truly make your next visit fruitful for you and the patient. More than simply an educational tool, this guidebook provides clergy and Christian laypeople with spiritual explanations and straightforward strategies to not only comfort the patient but also foster the sense of joy and accomplishment in oneself.

Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call teaches you to glean a positive experience from a difficult task, the visit to the sick. The author shares his insights learned in his lengthy and distinguished career in this instructional guidebook. Honest and compassionate in its portrayal of the sick and dying, the book prepares the reader spiritually, emotionally, and even physically for the challenge of the visit while focusing on the distress and the needs of the patient. At times stating practical common sense, other times shining an insightful light on the less physical aspects of the visit, this educational handbook is invaluable for all who minister, or wish to minister, to the sick.

Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call discusses:

Jesus’ Eleventh Commandment—To Love One Another
how to prepare yourself spiritually and emotionally for the visit
the hospital patient’s world
explanations of patients’ possible emotional, financial, family, and spiritual distress
do’s and don’ts to note before and during a visit to the patient’s room
the special needs of shut-ins
ministering to the dying
ministering to difficult patients
ministering to Alzheimer’s or comatose patients

Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a practical educational guide for pastors, supervisors in clinical pastoral education programs, CPE students, college and seminary students in courses in ministry to the sick, police and fire department chaplains, and family and friends of hospitalized, nursing home, and assisted living patients/residents. Read less

Foreword (Richard Dayringer)
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Ministry As a Response to the Eleventh Commandment
A New Commandment
The Great Commission
Chapter 2. The Prepared Serve Well
Prepare Yourself Spiritually
Prepare Yourself Emotionally
Prepare by Answering Some Questions of Yourself
Prepare by Learning
Prepare to Listen
Prepare for a Test
Prepare by Learning the Patient’s Likes and Dislikes
Preparation Yields Proven Benefits
Chapter 3. The Hospital Patient’s World
An Ancient Alien World of Distress
A Modern Alien World of Distress
Chapter 4. Dos and Don’ts Before Entering the Patient’s Room
Planning Your Visit
Respect the Rules of the Hospital
Respect the Privacy of the Patient
Chapter 5. Dos and Don’ts While Visiting in the Patient’s Room
Entering the Patient’s Room
Greeting and Initiating the Visit
Maximizing the Effects of Your Physical Presence
Monitoring Your Mood, Attitude, and Conversation
Ending Your Visit
Final Thoughts
Chapter 6. Shut-Ins: The Church’s Abandoned People
Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facility Patients
Homebound Patients
Planning the Time and Length of Your Visit
Structuring Your Visit and Making the Most of Your Time
Understanding and Respecting the Staff’s Concerns and Requests
Chapter 7. Ministering to the Dying
Our Conflicts with Death and Dying
Some Factors That Influence the Dying Patient’s Coping Process
Goals While Working with the Dying
Should the Patient Be Told That He or She Is Nearing Death?
What Can We Expect of the Person Who Learns That He or She Is Soon Going to Die?
Deathbed Repentances
Trust in Yourself and Your Resources
Advice for Pastors and Professional Hospital Chaplains
Chapter 8. Ministering to Other Difficult Patients
Ministering to the Comatose Patient
Ministering to the Alzheimer’s Patient
Chapter 9. Conclusion
References
Index

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Dayringer, Richard L; Justice, William G

Training Guide for Visiting the Sick More Than a Social Call

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