Path to Leadership
Enhance your ministry skills with this guide on making hospital visits. Explore the path to effective leadership in providing comfort and support to those in need. Discover strategies to navigate hospital environments and communicate compassionately with patients and their families. Develop the confidence to offer spiritual guidance and emotional care in sensitive situations. Equip yourself with essential skills to make meaningful hospital visits a key aspect of your ministry.
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Path to Leadership Basic Ministry Skills How to Make a Hospital Visit
Arrival Don t visit with a fever or a cough Arrive after 10:00 AM Knock for permission to enter and wait for an invitation to enter the room. Listen closely; hospital rooms doors are thick and the patient's voice may be weak! Introduce yourself to the patient. Stand in the line of the patient s vision, where they can see you.
Things Not to Do In A Hospital Visit Don t offer your hand let the patient invite a handshake. Don t sit down, except at the invitation of the patient. Never sit on the bed. Do not wake a sleeping patient. Leave a handwritten note Perhaps, along with a devotional magazine. Don t offer medical advice or tell about someone else who had the same thing.
Keep Visits Brief Normally, visits should last 5 to 10 minutes Depending on relationship, purpose, and the patient s state of health. If you arrive at mealtime, make your visit very brief. No one want to eat cold hospital food. If their Doctor comes in, excuse yourself immediately.
How to Make A Hospital Visit Focus on the patient once you are in the room. Not other visitors. Instead of asking, How are you feeling? You might ask, How are things going today? Listen; Let the patient do most of the talking.
Offer Prayer As You Leave When it is time to leave, offer a prayer With the patient s permission Hold their hand if they offer it. You might gently place your hand on the patient s arm or shoulder. If the person is of the opposite sex, it may be best to do neither.
How to Pray For the Patient When praying, be specific. Pray for the patient s freedom from pain Pray about family concerns, if any Pray for God s will to be accomplished in this sickness and recovery Express dependence upon the Lord If situation is serious: Father, we are trusting You no matter what.
