Summer Internship
The 10-week summer internship 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, ecumenical chapel services 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:
Available Positions:
Application Deadline:
$500
June 14 to August 17, 2012
The program is FULL
Applications for the 2013 Summer Internship will be accepted after October 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 internship program.
Benefits
Salary and Paid Time Off (PTO)
- The 2012 interns will receive a stipend of $1,450.
- Interns are not eligible for vacation or sick time benefits.
On-call Coverage
Chaplain residents are required to provide on-call coverage as follows:
- Interns will staff a minimum of one weekend and one weekday evening (3 hour shifts: 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.) during their internship.
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 internship program, 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
