{"id":830,"date":"2015-04-15T21:54:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T06:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=830"},"modified":"2015-04-16T02:02:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T11:02:29","slug":"apr-15-the-patient-is-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Apr 15 &#8211; The Patient Is on the Move!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Apr 15 &#8211; The Patient Is on the Move!\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=830\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/grateful-patient.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-809\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/grateful-patient.jpg\" alt=\"grateful patient\" width=\"183\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday and today I tried to make a follow-up visit to a patient who was originally seen by one of our On-Call Chaplains.\u00a0 Each time I went to see her our Patient Transport staff was in her room preparing to take her for a test.\u00a0 Since I know the patient believes in the power of prayer I asked the staff to allow me a few minutes to pray.\u00a0 The patient appreciated the prayer but the whole visit lasted less than 2 minutes each day.\u00a0 I am really hoping that on Thursday I will be able to have a visit with a long enough length of time that it can be meaningful for the patient.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the surprising dynamics of hospital chaplaincy.\u00a0 Even though the patient is an in-patient and in our building 24 hours a day, getting a chance to see the patient can be a challenge when the patient is having diagnostics or surgeries that have them outside of their room.\u00a0 I know that is aware of my diligence in trying to have a quality visit and until we can have a longer visit this will have to suffice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday and today I tried to make a follow-up visit to a patient who was originally seen by one of our On-Call Chaplains.\u00a0 Each time I went to see her our Patient Transport staff was in her room preparing to take her for a test.\u00a0 Since I know the patient believes in the power of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=830\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apr 15 &#8211; The Patient Is on the Move!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}