Faith & Healing

Parish Nurses:

• Engage individuals to overcome obstacles by instilling feelings of self worth, hope
  and a sense of purpose.
• Act to meet needs with sensitivity and compassion.
• Listen and pray.
• Encourage others to talk about the deeper issues of life related to health.
• Help individuals understand care of one’s health is part of the responsible
  stewardship of life.
• Feel that wholeness occurs through the development and integration of the physical, mental, spiritual, social, and artistic aspects of a person.
• View health as a condition of optimal wellness or wholeness.
• Feel that illness can be a manifestation of disharmony in one or several areas of development.
• Combine their professional training and faith tradition to help restore integration and ready a person for openness to God in faith.

Parish Nurse Definition:
Parish Nurses are registered nurses who provide wholistic nursing care to faith community members across the life span, thereby facilitating optimal wellness and the promotion of a healing community.

Vision:
Every faith community recognizes the wholeness of the human person and is willing to support a ministry designed to improve the health of its members.

Parish Nurse Values:
Parish Nurses respect the inherent dignity and sanctity of life of all persons, seek justice in access to the healthcare system, enable individuals to accept responsibility for their health, demonstrate compassion through listening without judging, and manifest the relationship among faith, hope, and love.

Parish Nurse Roles:
From a unique faith community centered plan, Parish Nurses reach out to faith community members to identify and prevent problems, coordinate and align resources, and institute methods to further improve the health of the community. To accomplish these goals, Parish Nurses serve as advocates, health educators, personal health counselors, program initiators, coordinators of volunteers and referral sources.

For more information on becoming or contacting a Parish Nurse contact:
Susan Keyes
Parish Nurse Coordinator
Providence Center for Faith and Healing
101 W. 8th Avenue
Spokane, WA 99204
Phone: (509) 474-3008
Email: keyess@shmc.org

A Parish Nurse Support group (for those who have completed the Basic Parish Nurse Class) meets the second Thursday of every month at Providence Center for Faith and Healing at 4:30p.m in the Murphy Room - #24.

Upcoming Events:

September 20 – 25, 2004 Basic Parish Nurse Class

Why should I become a Parish Nurse?

Root Assumptions
Parish Nursing is rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, consistent with the basic assumptions of all faiths, that we care for self and others as an expression of God’s love.

Mission
The Mission of the Parish Nursing is the intentional integration of the practice of faith with the practice of nursing so people can achieve wholeness in, with, and through the community of faith in which Parish Nurses serve.

Purpose
Ø Challenge the nursing profession to reclaim the spiritual dimension of nursing care.
Ø Challenge the health care system to provide whole person care.
Ø Challenge the faith community to restore its healing mission.

37.5 contact hours will be provided to participants upon completion of this course.

Cost
$800 Class Cost
$450 Funds provided by SHMC
$350 Participant’s cost

For more information regarding activities, please call 509/474-3008.

* Resource Library includes books and articles on faith, healing, spiritual growth, prayer, and integrative medicine.

* Music is available in tapes and CDs to take home or enjoy in the Center.

* Informational video tapes, including the full series of Moyers' "Dying in America".

 For information on any class or program call, 509.474.3008 or email us.