Faith Community Nurses Impacting Communities Externally Focused Conference Charleston, SC

1. Faith Community Nurses Impacting Communities Externally Focused Conference Charleston, SC October 3-5, 2011 Renatta S. Loquist, MN, RN, FAAN Jenny E. Holmes, MSN,RN

2. Faith Community Nursing …the specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional careof the spirit as part of the process of promoting wholistic health and preventing or minimizing illness in a faith community

3. Evolution of FCN • Nursing has historical roots in ancient traditions of major religions • Religious groups founded hospitals to care for the vulnerable populations • Religious groups developed schools of nursing • Parish nursing movement begun by Dr. Granger Westberg (1979)

4. Assumptions of FCN • Health and illness are human experiences. • Health is the integration of the spiritual, physical, psychological, and social aspects of the patient promoting a sense of harmony with self, others, the environment, and a higher power. • Health may be experienced in the presence of disease or injury.

5. Assumptions of FCN • The presence of illness does not preclude health nor does optimal health preclude illness. • Healing is the process of integrating the body, mind, and spirit to create wholeness, health, and a sense of well-being, even when the patient’s illness is not cured.

6. Professional Practice(Legal/Professional Guidance) • Code of Ethics for Nurses (ANA, 2001) • Nursing’s Social Policy Statement (ANA, 2003) • Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (ANA, 2005)

7. Confidentiality

8. Common Expectation The FCN must posses an understanding of the faith community’s traditions in addition to the competence as a registered nurse utilizing the nursing process to integrate care of the mind, body and spirit.

9. Preparation of a FCN • Continuing education programs • Baccalaureate and graduate level nursing courses • Religious education to include dual master’s degrees in nursing and theology • Health ministry training

10. Goals of the FCN • To protect, promote and optimize health and abilities • To prevent illness and injury • To respond to suffering in the context of the values, beliefs and practices of a faith community

11. Hospice Community Health Rehabilitation Home Health Acute Care Critical Care Collaboration With Other Nursing Specialties

12. Responsibilities • FCN is a member of the multidisciplinary staff of a faith community • FCN is the sole healthcare provider in this non-healthcare setting

13. Settings • Worship • Educational programs • Support or special interest groups • Spiritual growth or renewal groups • Support services like soup kitchens

14. Models and Best Practices • Hospital Based • Paid • Unpaid • Network • Church Based • Paid • unpaid

15. Hospital Based • Paid • Hospital hires nurses to work in various faith based areas of the community • Program: Network • Hospital program provides support, education and resources for FCN’s working in their faith communities

16. Examples of Best Practices in Hospital Based Programs Color Me Healthy Nutrition Education for the Congregation

17. Community Health Information Partnership Computers & Internet access for faith communities. Training and education for FCN’s.

18. Bulletin Boards in a Bag

19. Church Challenge at CPR Saturday

20. Church Based

21. Best Practices

22. Health Ministry Teams

24. Accountability

25. Impact • Reduces health care costs • Improves quality of life • Assists individuals to learn new and modify lifestyle behaviors • Assists in maintaining the frail elderly in their home settings • Serves as a resource to those with chronic and functional disability

26. “The most important potential impact that faith communities can have is not in replacing acute care or even primary care health services but in health education, disease and injury prevention and those activities which reduce the isolation and marginalization of people.” Gary Gunderson, Director, The Carter Center Interfaith Health Program

29. Questions?