Faith Community Nursing (FCN), formerly known as parish nursing, is a specialty focused on providing holistic health promotion, disease prevention services, and spiritual care within a faith community.
What do faith community nurses do?
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Like other specialties, faith community nurses provide patient-centered care utilizing the same skills and knowledge to address their specific patients’ needs.
- They may serve seniors and low-income adults as advocate and advisor, educator on health issues, organizer of support groups, trainer and coordinator of volunteers, and provider of health screenings.
- Faith community nurses may also provide referrals to community resources and assistance in obtaining health services.
Where do faith community nurses work?
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Faith community nurses may work with individual churches, congregations, parishes, faith-based schools, aged care facilities, community houses, welfare agencies, and other health and social services.
More faith community nursing resources
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- Nursing Pocket Cards, including implementing an AED program
- Blog posts, with infographics, mnemonics, tips, and more
- Journal
- Articles and nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) activities
- Headlines and news stories
- Society partners