{"id":733,"date":"2015-02-27T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=733"},"modified":"2015-02-28T05:24:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T14:24:58","slug":"feb-27-pleasant-unpleasant-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 27 – Pleasant & Unpleasant Tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a picture of the morgue from the TV show NCIS.\u00a0 In the picture the Medical Examiner, Dr. Donald Mallard, is examining a corpse.<\/p>\n

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Today I conducted a tour of our hospital for a new volunteer chaplain who will be assisting in covering the pager schedule.\u00a0 I had to show him our morgue because from time-to-time the Chaplain along with a Nurse and a Security Officer has to accompany family members to the morgue to view a body.\u00a0 This takes place when the family member arrives after the patient is moved from their hospital room to the morgue.\u00a0 Our preferred location to let the family view the body is in the hospital room.\u00a0 We extend flexibility in how long we wait to move the body. But in some instances the family is going to be too long in arriving and the body has to be sent to the morgue.<\/p>\n

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I was asked how I feel about taking family members to the morgue.\u00a0 I was honest and said it was not my favorite way to serve the needs of family members.\u00a0 But I feel the presence of a Chaplain in that situation makes the viewing a lot less stressful for the family than it would be without the Chaplain.\u00a0 So while it is not my favorite task, I do not shirk the responsibility when the need arises.\u00a0 For me ministry is not about my convenience, it is about what best meets the needs of the patient and\/or their family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This is a picture of the morgue from the TV show NCIS.\u00a0 In the picture the Medical Examiner, Dr. Donald Mallard, is examining a corpse.   Today I conducted a tour of our hospital for a new volunteer chaplain who will be assisting in covering the pager schedule.\u00a0 I had to show him our … Continue reading Feb. 27 – Pleasant & Unpleasant Tasks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}