[VickyRN]

When Memory Fails: Helping Dementia Patients Remember God

Engaging patients with dementia in familiar rituals of faith elicits positive cognitive, behavioral and spiritual responses. What's going on physiologically in Alzheimer's and other dementias? Why are spiritual rituals effective, and how do these symbolic acts help?

http://ncf.intervarsity.org//jcn/archive/06wi/sfm6.pdf

[zoeboboey]

Originally Posted by VickyRN

When Memory Fails: Helping Dementia Patients Remember God

Engaging patients with dementia in familiar rituals of faith elicits positive cognitive, behavioral and spiritual responses. What's going on physiologically in Alzheimer's and other dementias? Why are spiritual rituals effective, and how do these symbolic acts help?

http://ncf.intervarsity.org//jcn/archive/06wi/sfm6.pdf

Used to take care of a lady in a nursing home who was really "out there", had just about NO concept of reality - unless you took her to her Bible, religious literature, religious pictures and artifacts - and her face would light right up.

I am interested in working in a pregnancy clinic near me that helps moms make informed decisions about abortion, hopefully deciding for life. They are trying to get an ultrasound machine in there too.

God bless you!

[VickyRN]

Nurses Christian Fellowship

NCF began in the early 1940’s when small groups of Christian nurses in several cities began meeting to pray and support each other. They began reaching out to colleagues and to nursing students on clinical rotations in their hospitals. These groups eventually joined together, and became a national ministry of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in 1948. We continue to encourage students, faculty and nurses to explore and connect Christian faith and nursing, and provide resources that help nurses practice nursing from a Christian

www.ncf-jcn.org

[VickyRN]

Nursing in the Church

Whether the thought is new or you’re already providing care within the congregation, this book offers suggestions for using your nursing skills in the church.

Chapter topics:
• The Church and Health Care
• What is Parish Nursing?
• What Does a Parish Nurse Do?
• Models of Ministry
• Spiritual Care
• Issues in Congregational Health
• Ideas that Work

Nursing in the Church

[VickyRN]

The Nurse with an Alabaster Jar

As Christian nurses, Jesus entrusts each of us with an alabaster jar of precious oil

Ointment, or oil, appears frequently in the Bible. Regarded as a sign of God's rich blessing, oil nourishes the body as well as the soul.

As Christian nurses, Jesus entrusts each of us with an alabaster jar of precious oil. We pour out this oil in daily acts of mercy and physical care, as well as through spiritual care. God gives us the privilege of breaking open the alabaster jar of the Scriptures for people who face uncertainty, suffering and death.

The Nurse With an Alabaster Jar

[VickyRN]

Suggested Guidelines For Starting A Parish Nursing Program

Excellent FREE booklet!

Example of a Promotional Pamphlet

How to Conduct a Devotion

Other great resources: Parish Nursing Resources

[VickyRN]

Cancer -

American Cancer Society

Diabetes -

National Diabetes Education Program
American Diabetes Association

Grief and Loss -

Grief and grieving

Health and Nursing Organizations -

Sigma Theta Tau (Nursing Honor Society)
American Nurses Association
University of Iowa College of Nursing
Healthy People 2010

Mental Health Organizations -

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

Spiritual Organizations -

St. Mark's United Methodist Church
United Methodist Key Information and Links
Spiritual Directors International

Tools for Staff and Volunteer Inventory -

Keirsey Temperament Sorter II

Other resources

Family Caregiver Alliance

Links to Parish Nurse Web Pages

Carroll College Parish Nurses (Montana)

St. Mark's Parish Nurse Program - Links

Denominational Websites for Health Ministry/Parish Nursing Models:

Adventist - Adventist Health: Parish Nurse Program
Catholic - www.chausa.org/PARISH/NURSING.ASP
Jewish - www.uahc.org
Lutheran - www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=2381
Presbyterian - www.pcusa.org/health/usa/parishnursing

Other Resources for Health Ministry/Parish Nursing:
International Parish Nurse Resource Center - www.parishnurses.org/
University of Maryland - www.parishnursing.umaryland.edu/whatis.asp
The Canadian Association for Parish Nursing Ministry - www.capnm.ca/
Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health - www.huc.edu/kalsman
Shleimut Institute – Jewish word for “wholeness” - www.shleimut.org
The Health Ministries Association – www.healthministriesassociation.org
Iowa Nurses Association – http://www.iowanurses.org/parish.htm
Florida Nurses Association (FNA) – http://www.floridanurse.org/
American Nurses Association (ANA) – http://www.nursingworld.org

General Health and Wellness Resources:
Administration on Aging – www.aoa.gov
Medicare – www.medicare.gov
National SAFE KIDS Program – www.safekids.org
Office for victims of crime – www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc
Palliative and end-of-life issues – http://www.palliativecarenursing.net
www.ExceptionalNurse.com -for nurses and nursing students. Provides links to disability related organizations, equipment, technology, mentors, employment, financial aid and related articles

Interfaith Health&Wellness Association

[VickyRN]

Congregations Facing Community Trauma

Community disaster strains all of the resources - the human, spiritual and the economic - of a community. Church leaders find themselves coping with a traumatic event while struggling with its impact on their church and church members, their lives, their families and their friends. This is a time when the church must be the refuge - the safety net for the congregational community of believers, and a beacon to the wider community, for often the it is the spiritual losses that people first feel and express. In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, when the day is most bleak, questions about hope and meaning are the most immediate questions, and the loss of hope and faith elicits some of the deepest pain.

http://www.pcusa.org/nationalhealth/...nitytrauma.pdf

[VickyRN]

Faith Community Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice

With the focus on spiritual health, the faith community nurse promotes health as wholeness within a faith community through the practice of nursing.
This book describes the specialty's characteristics, settings, and roles along with education and certification requirements. Also addresses advanced practice and role specialty issues. Indexed. 2005/92 pp.

Pub# 05SSFC.
List $16.95/ ANA Member $13.45

NursingWorld | Nurses Online Bookstore: ANA Nursing Standards

[tnbutterfly]

Thanks VickyRN for posting these resources. These are excellent and I'm sure will prove very helpful for Parish Nurses as well as any nurse interested in providing spiritual care or care to those in the faith community.