From Spirituality to Strategies: A Chaplain's Guide to Improve Employee Satisfaction and Workplace Positivity

Nursing leaders often struggle to cultivate reliable methods for identifying and solving problems of staff morale, self-morale, and overall employee satisfaction. Pastoral care leadership and the services provided by a strong chaplain group have been overlooked as a viable integral discipline with value-laden strategies to assist nursing leadership in this endeavor. The services provided by pastoral care are often isolated to the benefits related to patient and family spiritualism. This article explores the insights and contributions of one pastoral care chaplain and his methodologies for positively impacting employee morale, including his own teams at a major, level one trauma center in South Florida.