Extended Unit
The 33-week extended program is designed to help participants gain basic competencies in pastoral care and counseling with persons in crisis. Participants function as chaplain interns while learning to provide pastoral care in diverse, multidisciplinary and challenging hospital environments. Chaplain interns provide comprehensive pastoral care services including pastoral visitation, spirituality groups and grief support in collaboration with hospital staff professionals.
The internship program curriculum integrates pastoral formation, pastoral competence, theoretical understanding, professional identity development and pastoral imagination with pastoral ministry and various learning modalities. Participants who successfully complete the program will be prepared for a residency program and pastoral visitation of the sick.
Tuition:
Dates of 2012 Internship:
Meeting times:
Available Positions:
Application Deadline:
$500
September 17, 2012 to May 6, 2013
Mondays, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
5 - 7
Rolling admissions until positions are filled. Applications will be accepted beginning January 1, 2012.
Qualifications
Applicants must possess the following qualifications:
- Experience in either health care ministry or congregational ministry required.
- Graduate theological education preferred.
Educational Context
The Nebraska Medical Center is a 624-bed, level one trauma center with over 40,000 emergency room visits each year. The Nebraska Medical Center is a respected leader in solid organ transplantation, cardiology, blood and marrow transplantation, oncology and neurosciences. As the primary teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska of Medical Center (UNMC), The Nebraska Medical Center brings together the expertise of private practice medicine with the strengths of an academic health center. The working relationship between The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC provides a solid foundation for a quality chaplain education experience.
Benefits
Salary and Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Extended participants do not receive a stipend or salary.
- Interns are not eligible for vacation or sick time benefits.
Clinical Hours
Participants must provide 11 hours per week of volunteer pastoral care at the hospital or an approved clinical site. In most cases, a minimum of 5.5 hours per week must be provided at The Nebraska Medical Center.
On-call Coverage
Chaplain interns do not provide on-call coverage. However, shadowing opportunities are available upon request.
Clinical Assignments
Clinical Areas
- Medical-Surgical
- Adult Intensive Care
- Oncology/Hematology
- Solid Organ Transplant
- Neurological Sciences
- Cardiac Progressive Care
- Adult Crisis Unit-Psychiatric Care
- Neonatal Intensive Care
Application Information
In order to be admitted to the extended unit, prospective students must submit a completed ACPE application and a check in the amount of $25.00 payable to The Nebraska Medical Center to the address below.
Manager, Pastoral Care Department
Make an Appointment
Call: 800.922.0000
