02/01/2023
Are you an RN with a desire to improve health in your faith community?
Faith Community Nursing is a nursing practice dedicated to spiritual care and health promotion in the context of a faith tradition. Many congregations have faith community nurses, sometimes called parish nurses. These nurses watch over the health and well-being of the congregants through various methods, such as home visiting, health classes, blood pressure clinics, support groups, etc. The next course starts Friday, February 3 and we would love for you to join us!
A little more about the course:
The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is within an online learning environment, and after registering, you will receive detailed instructions and a link to access the course online. The course setting is a virtual classroom, in which you will engage and learn with other nurses. This allows participants to learn from discussion and interaction with one another. There will be readings from electronic materials, videos and PowerPoints, weekly assignments, class discussion, and occasional quizzes. There is no requirement that you be online at certain times of day. The week’s work and materials are available for you to work on at your own pace, only requiring you to meet the assignment deadlines. It is highly recommended that you purchase a copy of the ANA’s Faith Community Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Ed. It can be ordered from www.nursesbooks.org, or you may find it on Amazon.com. Many resources you need for the course will be available to you online within the course site, but you will need to order a copy of the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Participant Manual. This is also available on Amazon.
Assignments are turned in electronically at the course site. Each week, assignments will be due on Thursday night (by 11:55pm Central Time), with responses to your classmates’ postings due on Saturday night (by 11:55pm Central Time).
Upon completion, participants will receive a Faith Community Nursing pin and a certificate of completion. This continuing nursing education offering was approved by the St. David’s School of Nursing at Texas State University. The St. David’s School of Nursing at Texas State University is an approved provider of continuing education by the Alabama Board of Nursing, ABNP1544, expiration date 10/28/2023. Upon successful completion of the event, you will be awarded 40 contact hours of continuing nursing education. The Alabama Board is our accrediting organization for contact hours, but the CEs are accepted in all states in the US.
To register for an upcoming course, please submit the following registration materials:
• a short (2 paragraphs) narrative describing how you plan to use your faith community nurse training. What is your involvement with your faith community? What prompted you to take this course now?
• your state of licensure and nursing license number
Your payment of $285 can be made by Venmo at Faith Partnerships for Health , by PayPal through the payment link at www.Faithhealthpartnerships.org or at PayPal to Monica Hughes , or my check mailed to 203 Diamond Trail, Georgetown, TX 78633.
All your registration materials should be submitted by email to [email protected]. (512) 923-7916 with any additional questions. I do hope you can join us!
