Chaplaincy Profession Providing Enabling Environment for Collaborative Services

Chaplaincy Profession Providing Enabling Environment for Collaborative Services

1.     Interdisciplinary collaborative services.

2.      Collegial collaborative services.

3.     Complimentary collaborative services.

4.     Collaborative clinical care services.

5.     Collaborative psychosocial care services.

Understanding chaplaincy is the key.

Showcasing collaborative care services by professionals in the oil and gas industry:

The oil and gas industry present a good situation and conducive environment for interdisciplinary professional collaboration and collaborative care services. In the industry, we professionals from following known professions world over to offer collaborative services for the welfare of the industry, workforce communities where they operate and the nation’s economy.

a.     Oil and drilling engineers.

b.     Instrument engineers.

c.      Pipeline engineers.

d.     Management experts.

e.     Medical professionals.

f.       Environmental health professionals.

g.     Environmental lawyers.

h.     Accountants such as cost and works accountants, management accountants.

i.        Chaplains and spiritual care professionals where they are employed.

j.       Marketing and distribution professionals.

k.     Oil refinery engineers and experts etc.

NB: These professionals have nothing to do with policing oil pipelines as security agents take responsibility for such. Never you degrade chaplains by seeking to be permitted to use chaplains in policing oil pipelines.

It is insulting for anyone to deploy chaplains who are clergies of their own religions for the policing of oil pipelines. What ministry of presence will such chaplains bring to the pipelines and the oil flowing in them?

The wrong perception of chaplaincy coupled with lack of understanding of who chaplains are make them to be insulted with impunity. Chaplains must also endeavor to resist being used by any chaplaincy leader to destroy their destinies and dignity.

You have now begin to see the effects of inadequate chaplaincy trainings for chaplains. Every profession must be allowed to be led by professionals, for if quacks take up the lead, the profession as well as the members of the profession are doomed and destined for total destruction and extinction.

I challenge chaplaincy community, robust in knowledge and understanding of what chaplaincy is all about to arise from slumber for the rescue and redemption of chaplaincy profession and its professional practice from mischief makers in Nigeria and continent of Africa by extension.

Chap. Prof. David Mike

Certified Chaplaincy Educator

11^th May, 2020