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FAITH COMMUNITY NURSE ASSOCIATION

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Videos, Books, and Articles Offering Information and Assistance

Videos


Books

  • The Parish Nurse: Providing a Minister of Health for Your Congregation, Granger E. Westberg and Jill Westberg McNamara, Augsburg Fortress, 1990 — Although this book is 15 years old, it remains a classic for outlining the theory behind the development of the idea of parish nursing.
  • Parish Nurse - Promoting Whole Person Health Within Faith Communities, Phyllis Ann Solari-Twadell and Mary Ann McDermott, eds., Sage, 1999
  • The Essential Parish Nurse: ABCs for Congregational Health Ministry, Deborah L. Patterson, The Pilgrim Press, 2003
  • Parish Nursing: Stories of Service and Care, Verna Brenner Carson and Harold G. Koenig, Templeton Press, 2011


Articles

Living Lutheran Articles

A Network of Care, by Lori Haugen
How two parish nurse collaborated between Maryland and Tucson, Arizona to help a family "facing dire health situations on both ends.
https://www.livinglutheran.org/2020/03/a-network-of-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-network-of-care

Holistic healing: Parish Nurses Care for Body, Mind and Spirit
(https://www.livinglutheran.org/2017/01/holistic-heaing/). 


Other Helpful Articles

Leading a Congregation Through Change
 This is very helpful article, written by Carol DeSchepper, our ELPNA Executive Director.  A must read for any congregation considering introducing a Parish/Faith Community Nurse Program. Click here to read the article


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