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May 2021
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing (online from Australia)
This comprehensive internationally recognized course will prepare and equip Registered Nurses for the specialty of Faith Community Nursing. The AFCNA course is taught on-line over one semester, (May-Oct 2021) with 2 modules released every 3 weeks followed by a joint Zoom class, so your learning is self-paced from the comfort of home. The 16 modules (36 hours) are taught via online video tutorials with 16 accompanying workbooks with notes, learning activities, and practical resources for students that accompany each module.…
Find out more »August 2021
Faith Community Nurse Foundations Course
Shendandoah University's School of Nursing is offering it's FCN Foundatinos Course this Fall. This course is a blended format with classroom and online work to complete the requirements for CE. It’s Units include spirituality, professionalism, wholistic health, and community. This Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum course is based on the curriculum developed through the Westberg Institute in 2019. Enroll in the Upcoming Foundations Courses 36.5 CEs will be earned for full participation (This continuing professional development activity has been submitted…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Online Course
Complete the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course totally online and asynchronously.
Find out more »ONLINE – Foundations in Faith Community Nursing
This fifteen-week online synchronous certificate program will prepare RN’s to serve effectively in their faith communities or faith-based organizations. Upon completion of the program, the nurse will be able to do the following: implement a health ministry based on the faith community needs; integrate spirituality and theology into the health ministry; enhance health and wellness of a congregation and community; expand the dimensions of the faith community nurse role; and explain the legal and ethical issues of congregational health ministry. The curriculum follows the guidelines recommended by the Westberg Institute…
Find out more »Online – Foundations in Faith Community Nursing (Graduate Certificate)
This integrative 15 credit graduate certificate prepares individuals to serve as faith-informed nursing professionals in their communities. The certificate includes training in faith community nursing, trauma-informed care, pastoral counseling, and spiritual formation. Certificate completers are eligible for certification as a Faith Community Nurse through EMU's curricular partnership with the Westburg Institute for Faith Community Nursing.
Find out more »September 2021
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course Online at West Virginia University
The West Virginia University School of Nursing offers a Faith Community Nursing course for those individuals interested in helping to address the unique needs of faith-based organizations. The professional practice of faith community nursing focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as part of the process of promoting holistic health and preventing or minimizing illness in a faith community. This is an 8 week all online course
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nurse Training Course (online, with live Zoom sessions – Eastern Standard Time)
The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course is being offered in a 6-week VIRTUAL format through Zoom. Course times are Sundays 3:00-7:00 pm EST and Wednesdays 5:00-9:00 pm EST between September 15-October 24, 2021. The cost is $335.00 and includes textbook, Scope and Standards of Faith Community Nursing, additional course materials, resources, and 40.5 contact hours. Registration closes at midnight on September 8, 2021. FMI please go to https://nadhealth.org/aafcn/foundations-course/ or contact Kathleen Coleman, FCN Lead Education Instructor for the Adventist…
Find out more »Ascension St. Vincent’s Healthcare Annual Foundations Course Training
Faith Community Nursing Ministry Annual Foundations Curriculum Training Faith Community Nursing(FCN) is a specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as well as the promotion of the whole-person health and the prevention or minimization of illness within the context of a faith community and the wider community. Ascension St. Vincent’s FCN is offering the endorsed Foundations of Faith Community and Parish Nursing Curriculum to experienced registered nurses. This educational program is based on…
Find out more »Health Ministry Virtual Meetings… Peer Support, Learning & Conversation
Goal: To emphasize the importance of networking, fellowship, learning and peer support for faith community nurses and health ministers as they assist congregations and local communities to better health and well-being. Each one-hour session offers content discussion on various topics such as the intentional care of the spirit, promotion of whole-person health (balancing body, mind, and spirit), the prevention of disease, creative ministry programming, and current challenges in ministry. Each monthly session will invite participants to a specific topic of…
Find out more »Vurtual-Hybrid Foundations in Faith Community Nursing Course
This virtual Course is presented by 12 inter-professional facilitators over the course of 6 weeks. Pre-course work is required for each session. There is a final worship time with blessing of the hands and virtual pinning.
Find out more »Foundations Course
With these uncertain times, these courses will be offered both in person and remotely. I am hoping to have a minimum of 4 in person partcipants and 2 online participants. Online participants will need to be able to use the Microsoft teams platform. Discussion and intimacy are key to the FCN program, so if the in person group has a discussion, the educator will send online particpants to a separate room for group discussion and then welcome back both groups…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
The Carle Faith Community Nursing program was established in 1997 and has trained over 500 nurses who've found joy serving their faith communities. This Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course will combine individual study and virtual Zoom classroom sessions.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Join us for Foundations of Faith Community Nursing! The Faith Community Nurse Network welcomes you to our virtual Foundations of Faith Community Course to be held 8:45 a.m-4:00 p.m. September 30, October 1, October 13, October 14, October 28, October 29, 2021. The course is based on the Westberg Institute 2019 Curriculum (owned by SCA, New York, NY) and will be taught by faculty with advanced degrees and experience as FCNs. What do past participants say? “I was amazed at…
Find out more »October 2021
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
The Pittsburgh Mercy Parish Nurse & Health Ministry Program is offering the "Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum" by Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing in October 2021. Our Faith Community Nurse & Health Minister Preparation Course is designed for those who enjoy being with other adult learners in a safe, non-threatening learning environment that encourages questions and deep self-reflection. This hybrid course provides both in-classroom virtual presentations via Zoom meetings and online learning modules via HealthStream. This 5-day course is…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community/Parish Nursing Course in Hagerstown, Maryland
This dynamic in-person course, combines four days of interactive classroom instruction with independent learning assignments to be completed in preparation for the course and between the October sessions. Due to COVID-19, class size will be small with possible masking, distancing, and food safety measures, depending on current recommended guidelines by our local Health Department and the CDC. Class dates are: October 1, 2 and October 22, 23, 2021 (8 am - 5pm daily) Participants will be awarded 38 ANCC contact…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Faith community nursing, formerly known as parish nursing, is based on the idea that caring for ourselves and others is a manifestation of the love of God. Through the practice of faith community nursing, nurses practice in a nursing specialty (faith community nursing) to provide spiritual care in their communities. Those communities are typically faith congregations, but not always. The goals of the work of the faith community nurse (FCN) are "the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities;…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Online in German
Online Course following the International Curriculum rewiesed 2019
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing – Six day course
Is a Faith Community Health Ministry in Your Future? A Faith Community Nurse is not simply a registered nurse who happens to be a member of a faith community. Faith Community Nursing is a recognized nursing specialty. Faith community nurses and health ministers serve their congregations and community through advocacy, by improving health literacy, health equity and overall access to care, and by promoting spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being. The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course prepares nurses to provide…
Find out more »Learn the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Faith Community Nursing (FCN) is a specialty of the American Nurses Association that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit. Faith Nurses incorporate nursing skills, public health concepts, and spiritual expertise in order to provide whole person care – body, mind and spirit to those they care for. Registered nurses of all faith traditions are encouraged to enroll in the 15th Foundations of FCN course offered by Hoag Faith Community Nursing. Upon completion of this course you will be…
Find out more »January 2022
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Faith community nursing, formerly known as parish nursing, is based on the idea that caring for ourselves and others is a manifestation of the love of God. Through the practice of faith community nursing, nurses practice in a nursing specialty (faith community nursing) to provide spiritual care in their communities. Those communities are typically faith congregations, but not always. The goals of the work of the faith community nurse (FCN) are "the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities;…
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