hospital chaplain
Medical facility minister
A hospital chaplain is a member of the clergy or trained religious professional who provides spiritual care and emotional support to patients, families, and staff in a medical setting.
Unlike parish clergy, hospital chaplains typically serve people of all faiths or none, offering comfort during illness, crisis, and death: The hospital chaplain sat with the family through the night.
Many are trained in clinical pastoral education.
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- spiritual careAttending to sacred needs
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- holy ordersSacrament conferring clergy status
- priestOne who performs sacraments
minister · rabbi · spiritual · bedside · bedside manner · prayer · prayer service · comfort · grief · dying · faith · counselor · sacred · sacred space · blessing · anointing · vigil · compassion
- chaplainspadre, ordained minister
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- faith healthcarefaith healing, spiritual care, healing ministry, health ministry, faith-based counseling
- chaplaincycampus ministry, prison ministry, pastoral counseling, spiritual counseling
- seminaryseminaries, divinity school, seminarian, seminary training, formation
- church outreachchurch outreach, community outreach, neighborhood outreach, homeless outreach, gospel outreach
hospital chaplainsurgeon
Physician who operates
attending physician · trauma surgeon · emergency physician · medical specialist · oncologist
hospital chaplainchief of surgery
Hospital's top surgeon
hospital CEO · chief medical officer · department head · hospital administrator · attending physician
hospital chaplainparish priest
Local church leader
megachurch pastor · televangelist · monastic · cloistered nun
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