The Pediatric Chaplain’s Network—Research Committee (PCN-RC) aims to serve the PCN in three key ways:

Encourage, equip, and elevate the work of pediatric chaplains to be the respected thought leaders exploring and defining evidence-based pediatric spiritual care practice with curiosity and wonder.

PCN-RC Journal Club

In 2021 the group met five times in 2021 and discussed the following articles:

Bibler, T. M., Stahl, D., Fantus, S., Lion, A., & Brothers, K. B. (2020). A Process-Based Approach to Responding to Parents or Guardians Who Hope for a Miracle. Pediatrics, 145(3), e20192319. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2019-2319

Cacciatore, J., Thieleman, K., Lieber, A. S., Blood, C., & Goldman, R. (2019). The Long Road to Farewell: The Needs of Families With Dying Children. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 78(4), 404–420.https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222817697418

Mack, J. W., Uno, H., Twist, C. J., Bagatell, R., Rosenberg, A. R., Marachelian, A., Granger, M. M., Glade Bender, J., Baker, J. N., Park, J. R., Cohn, S. L., Fernandez, J. H., Diller, L. R., & Shusterman, S. (2020). Racial and Ethnic Differences in Communication and Care for Children With Advanced Cancer. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 60(4), 782–789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.04.020

Ragsdale, J. R., & Desjardins, C. M. (2020). Proposing religiously informed, relationally skillful chaplaincy theory. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2020.1861533

Wiener, L., Rosenberg, A. R., Pennarola, B., Fry, A., & Weaver, M. (2021). Navigating the terrain of moral distress: Experiences of pediatric end-of-life care and bereavement during COVID-19. Palliative & Supportive Care, 19(2), 129–134. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478951521000225