{"id":379,"date":"2014-08-28T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T06:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=379"},"modified":"2014-08-29T01:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:58:49","slug":"august-28-dont-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"August 28 – Don’t Give Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week due to some special projects and an increase demand of my time for hospice patients I have not been able to do as much visiting of hospital patients as I would like to do.\u00a0 Today I began my rounding in the hospital with a sense of enthusiasm and a desire to see as many patients as I could.\u00a0 Initially my enthusiasm was drained because the first three patients that I could speak with declined pastoral care for various reasons.\u00a0 I know this was not a personal rejection of my, but with my emotions so fully loaded to see as many patients as I could three patients consecutively declining pastoral care was unexpected and downright unpleasant for me.\u00a0 I began to ask myself, \u201cWhy am I here where there are other things I could be doing back at the office?\u201d\u00a0 I answered myself quickly by reminding myself of how few hours I had been rounding in the hospital and that there surely were patients who would desire a visit and benefit from our time together.<\/p>\n

The very next patient I visited responded with these words once I identified myself and why I was in her room. \u201cI am so glad you came, I need someone to talk to.\u201d\u00a0 Needless to say my heart jumped when she stated not only could we visit but told me she needed <\/strong>a visit.\u00a0 We had a very positive visit and I felt like I had really improved her day.\u00a0 One of the measures I am using to measure this is while I was in her room physical therapy came in and offered to help her walk, she said we were not done yet and asked them to come back later.\u00a0 Then a social worker came into the room and she told the social work the same thing.\u00a0 This patient did not realize it but she gave me a gift of reminding me, just when I needed a reminder, that pastoral care does matter greatly.\u00a0 It is up to me not to get discouraged when some patients are not up to having a visit for whatever reason.\u00a0 There is always another patient who is waiting for pastoral care.<\/p>\n

If you have discouraging days in your job, try to remember times when others have affirmed your work.\u00a0 Then like I was, you will be renewed for the tasks you are attempting to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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