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
The Journal Club is offered as a free activity from PCN with the expressed purpose of encouraging, empowering, and engaging pediatric chaplains in the world of research literacy and research-informed practice. Please note our final Journal Club 2021 was October 28.
A link is made available before each journal club session through a post on the Listserv. If you would like to be added to an email list that receives the Outlook calendar invite with Zoom link directly, please click here and submit your email to the Google form
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