Cate Michelle Desjardins

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ID9722878
NOMECate Michelle Desjardins
PRENOMESCate Michelle
SOBRENOMEDesjardins
ASSINATURADESJARDINS C M
AFILIAÇÕESHealthCare Chaplaincy Network
ORCID0000-0002-7928-3239
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Essential competencies for healthcare chaplains

    Open AccessDavid W Fleenor, Beth L Muehlhausen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2025

    This first-of-its-kind study explored the essential competencies healthcare chaplaincy hiring managers (HCHMs) sought for entry-level healthcare chaplains (HCCs). We conducted qualitative interviews with 16 HCHMs and using reflexive thematic analysis (RTA), developed nine key themes: interpersonal skills, teamwork, knowledge of family and group dynamics, understanding of the healthcare system, professionalism, proficiency in spiritual assessment,…

  • American health care chaplains’ narrative experiences serving during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessCate Michelle Desjardins, Beth L Muehlhausen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted North American health care chaplains' modes of work and emotions. To capture the experiences of health care chaplains across the United States, 30 Board Certified (or eligible) chaplains were asked to keep a weekly narrative journal of their experiences and emotions during the pandemic from April of 2020 through June of 2020. Twenty-one chaplains submitted their journals for qualitative analysis, amoun…

  • Spiritual care department leaders’ response to racial reckoning in 2020 and 2021

    Beth L Muehlhausen, Cate Michelle Desjardins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2023

    Ascension, one of the largest Roman Catholic healthcare systems, and Transforming Chaplaincy (TC) collaborated on a research project "Managing Spiritual Care (SC) Departments During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study." Research participants included 22 leaders from Ascension and TC contacts. Four rounds of individual interviews were conducted from April, 2020 to February, 2021. After issues of race and racial reckoning following George Fl…

  • Proposing religiously informed, relationally skillful chaplaincy theory

    Judith R Ragsdale, Cate Michelle DesjardinsARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2022

    Research on the multiple uses of religion/spirituality (R/S) in healthcare and on the practices of healthcare chaplaincy support creation of a middle-range, prescriptive theory for chaplaincy for patients who use R/S in their healthcare experiences. Religiously Informed, Relationally Skillful Chaplaincy Theory (RIRSCT) seeks to integrate research into practice in order to improve spiritual care and allow for testing RIRSCT. The components of RIRS…

  • Chaplain Leadership During Covid-19

    Open AccessC Szilagyi, Anne Vandenhoeck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pastoral Care &…2022

    Chaplain leadership may have played a pivotal role in shaping chaplains’ roles in health care amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We convened an international expert panel to identify expert perception on key chaplain leadership factors. Six leadership themes of professional confidence, engaging and trust-building with executives, decision-making, innovation and creativity, building integrative and trusting connections with colleagues, and promoting cu…

  • Managing Spiritual Care Departments During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessBeth L Muehlhausen, Cate Michelle Desjardins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pastoral Care &…2022

    This qualitative study reports how 20 spiritual care leaders provided leadership in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The patterns and themes that emerged centered around the changing world of chaplaincy, the administrative role of the leader, and the personal story of the leader. Spiritual care leaders demonstrated creativity with the potential to shape chaplaincy in positive ways, expanding the reach of spiritual care

  • Parental Use of Religion and Spirituality in Medical Decision-Making

    Hailey V Malcolm, Cate Michelle Desjardins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Care Chaplaincy2021

    New medical technology has extended children's lives, creating challenges for parental decision-making. Many parents utilize religion or spirituality (R/S). This study examined the semi-structured interviews of 24 parents who made significant medical decisions. Major domains included drawing on guidance from an internal or personal R/S source; some described making decisions by surrendering decision-making agency to the Divine; being guided by be…

  • Scared but Powerful

    Open AccessCate Michelle Desjardins, Anna Bovo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pastoral Care &…2021

    Drawing from both the qualitative free-text responses and quantitative responses to an international survey of 1657 chaplains serving during the SARS-Cov-19 pandemic, we explore chaplains' emotional responses to the pandemic and how emotion connects to self-care. This paper reports on the modes of self-care practiced by chaplains, including modes reported as unavailable due to pandemic restrictions. Lastly, we explore how effective spiritual care…

  • "The Most Effective Experience was a Flexible and Creative Attitude"—Reflections on Those Aspects of Spiritual Care that were Lost, Gained, or Deemed Ineffective during the Pandemic

    Open AccessAnne Vandenhoeck, Cheryl Holmes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pastoral Care &…2021

    This paper presents and discusses data from three of the qualitative questions in the international COVID-19 survey: What was the most important aspect of spiritual care that was lost during the pandemic? What was new to you during this pandemic? What are the new ways of delivering spiritual care you have experienced? Of these new experiences, what do you think was the most effective