Hospice News January 10, 2025
Hospice chaplains often have little recourse for upward mobility along their career ladders. This can make recruitment and retention difficult among the next generation of the spiritual care workforce.
More professionals from a wider range of interfaith groups are entering the field, according to Shana Sullivan, bereavement coordinator of Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice. Sullivan is also an end-of-life doula and chaplain.
Understanding the priorities of an evolving chaplain workforce will be key to providing quality end-of-life experiences for patients and families amid rising demand, Sullivan indicated.
“When we look at the next generation, we see that the face of chaplaincy is changing, it’s no longer the pastor who retired from leading a church congregation providing spiritual care,” Sullivan told...
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