Faith community nursing.(Parish Nursing)
From: Nevada RNformation
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Date: 11/1/2007
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Author: Bowes, Bobbeye; Conradt, Candace
Faith community nursing (also known as parish nursing) is the specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as a part of the process of promoting wholistic health and preventing or minimizing illness within a faith community. Intentional care of the spirit makes the difference from other nursing care (ANA & HMA, 2005).
This specialized practice involves nurses in their faith communities assisting people in regards to health issues ...
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