Training Chaplains to Provide Communication-Board-Guided Spiritual Care for Intensive Care Unit Patients.

Chaplain-led communication-board-guided spiritual care may reduce anxiety and stress during an intensive care unit (ICU) admission for nonvocal mechanically ventilated patients, but clinical pastoral education does not teach the assistive communication skills needed to provide communication-board-guided spiritual care. To evaluate a four-hour chaplain-led seminar to educate chaplains about ICU patients' psychoemotional distress, and train them in assistive communication skills for providing chaplain-led communication-board-guided spiritual care. A survey immediately before and after the seminar, and one-year follow-up about use of communication-board-guided spiritual care.