Recently added articles from Parish Nurse Perspectives:
Real men eat bread, fish, and fruit.
Mar 22, 2009; Patterson, Deborah ... Last June, the Harvard Health Letter ran an interesting article about men's health and the role that ideals about masculinity plays in health promotion. The author of "Masculinity and men's health" states, "Men start having heart attacks and strokes in large numbers about a ...
Featured parish nurse program.
Mar 22, 2009; Moore, Lelia ... Joyce Green, the congregational nurse at Shiloh Holiness Church of God in Christ in Greensboro, has saved one young man--and one hospital--a lot of money. In helping him fill out forms for medicine to control seizures, she was able to prevent repeat ambulance calls and visits to the ER ....
Resources for parish nurses.(Making Your Church a House of Healing)(Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet)(Sabbath Retreat )(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Making Your Church a House of Healing by Michael Gemignani, MS, PhD, JD Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2008 ($14.00 US) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rev. Dr. Gemignani, who founded both the Brazosport Medical Center, to provide health care for the ...
"Got My People Going!!".(Survey)
Mar 22, 2009; Hofer, Marti ... 65 Trinity Lutheran Church members rose to the challenge to "Get Going" and participated in the eight-week invitation to wholeness, "Get My People Going!" which was offered January 12 through March 8, 2009. Participants chose 3 areas to focus on improving over the eight weeks ....
"When did we see you?"--Stan's story.(Column)
Mar 22, 2009; Carril, Elaine ... How many of us have seen a "different" person and have gone out of our way to avoid them? I'll admit I have. Stan showed up at our church last December, and stayed for coffee hour. Being really busy the month of December, it was easy for me to see him but not get to talk to him. I saw ...
Lasting wisdom from Granger Westberg.
Mar 22, 2009 ... "A great deal can be said in five minutes. More than we realize can be done in this time for the good or the harm of the patient. It is not a matter of the length of conversation so much as it is the sensitivity of the nurse who is listening and responding with her whole self. If she ...
News from the World Forum for Parish Nursing.
Mar 22, 2009; Daniels, Maureen ... This month we continue to share the growing interest in Parish Nursing. Several people will be going again on trips to new places to bring the word and work of ministries of health and healing to others. Brazil Mary Slutz, our Symposium and Resource Coordinator, is ...
Congregational exercise programs: faithfully fit forever "train the trainer" is coming to Westberg!
Mar 22, 2009 ... Exercise, Exercise, Exercise!! That's the message the IPNRC has been sending out in Perspectives for over a year. The data on the health benefits of exercise for ALL ages is overwhelming. Exercise must become part of the daily lifestyles of all people to live longer and healthier lives. We ...
Straight talk on cancer: screenings and strategies for living a healthy life.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... A Message Brought to you by your Parish Nurse Cancer in the US--Quick Facts 1.4 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year Breast and prostate cancer are the most commonly diagnosed, but not the leading causes of deaths Men have a 1 in 2 lifetime ...
Warm, ease, hold, breathe!(News You Can Use)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Doctors at the Mayo Clinic warn that muscles should be warmed before being stretched. They advise a few moments of low-intensity activity, such as walking while pumping one's arms, before stretching. Then, ease into each ...
Arthritis is number one.(News You Can Use)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the US, with one in every five Americans affected. Arthritis currently costs the US economy more than $128 billion annually and limits activity for 19 million Americans ....
Prediabetes: an epidemic.(News You Can Use)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... About 57 million Americans, or one in four adults, have prediabetes, putting them at increased risk for type 2 diabetes. According to the American Diabetes Association, patients with glucose levels of 100-125 mg/ DL ...
Did you know ...?(News You Can Use)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The effective radiation dose from a single CT scan of the chest is about 100 times higher ...
Eureka! EurekAlert!(Websites of Interest)(www.eurekalert.org)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EurekAlert! is an on-line, global news service operated by AAAS, the Science Society. Click on "Medicine and Health" to find a plethora of health-related news releases from ...
Financial gain for weight loss.(Websites of Interest)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... A study by researchers at the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP), part of the Department of Veterans Affairs, found that people who were given financial incentives for weight loss over 16 ...
Taking care of yourself: living with diabetes.(Websites of Interest)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Here are 10 health tips for those with diabetes: 1. Take control of your condition. Work closely with your doctor (and your parish nurse and others on your healthcare team). 2. Schedule yearly physicals and regular eye exams. You are at risk for other complications. ...
23rd Annual Westberg Symposium keynote speaker: Dr. Tieraona Low Dog.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; Merila, Nancy ... We are thrilled that Tieraona Low Dog, MD, Director of Education in the Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, will deliver this year's Helen J. Westberg Lecture at the 23rd Annual Westberg Symposium. Dr. Low Dog will speak on "Living in the Balance: ...
Keynote speaker: Julie Russell, RN, MA.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Julie Russell is the Executive Director of Kansas Health Ethics, Inc., in Wichita, Kansas, where she oversees ethics education for the community and provides a forum for discussion of ethical issues in healthcare. She also is a nurse dramatist, providing touching scenarios that teach of ...
Keynote Speaker: Rev. Philip Gulley.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "A Quaker Pastor's Adventure in Hypochondria" is the title of the Rev. Dr. Granger E. Westberg Memorial Lecture, to be delivered on Sunday by the Rev. Philip Gulley, author and Quaker pastor at Fairfield Friends Meeting House, which is in Camby, Indiana. ...
"A New Beginning" is theme for 2009 new faculty orientation and faculty retreat.(International Parish Nurse Resource Center)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... "A New Beginning" will be the theme for both the New Faculty Orientation and the Faculty Retreat, to be held from July 31 through August 3, 2009 at the relaxing Mercy Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Applications are now being received for persons interested in becoming faculty ...
