Parish/Faith community nurses focus on the promotion of health within the context of the beliefs, values, and practices of a particular congregation. The mission and ministry is to meet the unique ...

All parish nurses are RNs, but they are not necessarily of the same faith as the congregation they serve. Many are paid through the health care agencies, some are supported by their church or both ...

Parish nursing started in the 1980s and was officially recognized in 1998 by the American Nursing Association. Means began at a church on Martin Luther King Drive in a Milwaukee neighborhood with ...

The service is a tradition for the program that started in 1988. “The parish nurses want to blend their spirituality, their faith, with their specialty of nursing,” said Mary Slutz, of Moline ...

Parish nurse Julia Means was at Clinton Rose Senior Center in Milwaukee when a resident approached her about a neighbor who couldn’t get out of bed. Means, a nurse with Ascension Wisconsin, went ...

Mercy Care for the Adirondacks will offer the Foundations Course for Faith Community Nursing (Parish Nursing) on March 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, and 25. To register please visit Mercy ...

Amy Romberg, RN, parish nurse, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Baraboo; along with Jeff Culbertson, RN, and Terri Thomas, RN, parish nurses at Trinity Episcopal; Geri Schoenoff, RN, parish nurse at ...