Support Services
Chaplain Services and Education
Duke Raleigh Hospital chaplains offer spiritual care, counseling, and emotional support to our patients, families, and staff. The Chaplain Services Department also offers the following services:
- Spiritual assessment, intervention, comfort, and nurturing
- Facilitation and support of religious practices of all faiths and spiritual paths
- Non-judgmental listening
- Crisis intervention
- Advocacy for patients and staff
- Coordination of bereavement and decedent care services
- Collaboration with all members of the health care team
- Consultations on advance directives, end-of-life decisions, and ethical issues
To request a visit from a chaplain on weekdays, call Chaplain Services at 919-812-7972. During the evening and weekends, ask your nurse to arrange for you to speak with a chaplain.
The John Knight Family Chapel is a sacred space located on the first floor of Duke Raleigh (near the emergency room). The chapel is open for prayer, meditation, and reflection for persons of all faiths, as well as for regularly scheduled religious and spiritual-health related services. Please contact Chaplain Services at 919-812-7972. to discuss scheduling events or to reach the contact person for your faith group.
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) opportunities
The Department of Chaplain Services provides accredited Level 1 and 2 Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) to ministerial students, clergy, and interested lay people. Our CPE program is accredited by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) located at One West Court Square, Suite 325, Decatur GA 30030. ACPE can be contacted by phone at 404-320-1472, by fax at 404-320-0849, and at www.acpe.edu.
Currently, we offer part-time spring and fall units (16 weeks), a full-time summer unit (11 weeks), and an extended parish-based unit (9 months). For more information, please contact Amy Canosa at 919-862-5646. To download our CPE program brochure, please click here. To download an application for a CPE unit, please click here.