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March 2020
Indiana Center for Parish Nursing: Engagement Over the Lifespan
It's a challenge to provide multi-generational, whole person care to all those in your faith community. Issues affecting new moms are vastly different from issues affecting those caring for an aging parent. Yet health ministry leaders are expected to provide resources, services, and support to members across their lifespan. To help you meet this challenge, join the Indiana Center for Parish Nursing for a day of education and training. Learn how to better navigate palliative and hospice care, explore valuable…
Find out more »Spring 2020 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
The Spring 2020 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course takes place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 26 – 28 and Friday, and Saturday, May 1 and 2, 2020 from 7:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. daily. It takes place at Duet, 10000 North 31st Avenue, Suite D200, Phoenix, AZ 85051. Open to RNs and nurse practitioners with active licenses. More info: https://duetaz.org/foundations-course-registration/.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Six session preparation course for new parish nurses
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Faith community nursing (also called parish nursing) is a recognized specialty practice that combines professional nursing and health ministry. Faith community nursing emphasizes health and healing within a faith community. This course will provide the basic preparation for the nurse interested in practicing in the faith community nurse role in her/his faith community. The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum course is based on the curriculum developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing, which curriculum is owned by…
Find out more »April 2020
Health Ministries Network Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
The Health Ministries Network (HMN) Foundations Course prepares state licensed RNs for a faith community nurse (FCN) ministry and other caring individuals for health minister (HM) service in their faith community or organization. The fybrid course is a combination of face-to-face sessions and on-line course work. The course is offered in Bellingham WA over eight weeks beginning Friday, April 3 2020. The Foundations Course has 15 modules (providing 36 contact hours) designed to integrate mind, body and spirit wellness, with…
Find out more »May 2020
Partners in Compassion Virtual Event
The COVID-19 pandemic may have forced the cancellation of Duet: Partners In Health & Aging’s annual Partners in Compassion luncheon, but it didn’t eliminate the need the organization has for this impactful annual fundraiser. To prevent the crisis from continuing to impact the community Duet serves, the event was reimagined as a virtual experience. Instead of a luncheon, Duet is inviting everyone to a virtual lunch to view a special video on their own timetable in the comfort and safety…
Find out more »The Art of Listening: Healing Ourselves, Our Clients, Our Communities
Summary: Through a series of videos and activities, learners will be guided to improving their deep listening skills as faith community nurses. Learners will use contemplative prayer and meditation to deepen their listening to God and self, and reflect on the interconnections between listening to God, self, clients and in the broader community for healing to happen. Format: 5 lessons, 1 - 4 short videos per lesson, self-reflection writing activities, each lesson ends with a quiz of 2-3 questions that must be…
Find out more »Candle Meditation & Prayer Gathering 2020 – “The Gift of Light”
Do you need a sacred space and time set-aside for peace and quiet reflection during this challenging time? Do you desire to give to your family & others, but could use some extra encouragement and support? Do you have a need to connect with others in prayer and contemplation? Do you want to experience spiritual awareness & spiritual care in a virtual setting? Please attend our Candle Meditation & Prayer Gathering titled "The Gift of Light." It is a wonderful…
Find out more »June 2020
West Virginia University School of Nursing Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
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.
Find out more »August 2020
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Concordia College's Parish Nurse Ministry Program, Moorhead, MN is offering a 5-day foundations course August 3-7, 2020. The course format is classroom with a variety of learning activities planned. The course will be held at Atonement Lutheran Church in Fargo, ND. The program is designed to provide the participants with the information needed to start a health and healing ministry in their faith community. The daily schedule generally runs from 8am to 8pm with breaks for meals. Special events include…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course- Hybrid Webinar with on-line Learning Experience
Texas Health Resources Faith Community Nursing program is offering a hybrid virtual webinar/on-line course which will provide registered nurses with specialized knowledge and skills for professional practice in a faith community setting. The core curriculum focuses on: Spirituality Professionalism Holistic Health Community Details: Four webinar classroom dates together with 6 weeks of on-line learning (all components must be fulfilled for successful completion of the course) Virtual webinar classroom dates 1 and 2: Thursday evening August 6, 2020 6:00pm to 9:15pm…
Find out more »Virtual Symposium: Creating Dementia-Friendly Faith Communities
Join the Faith Community Nurse Network of the Greater Twin Cities for a symposium on “Creating Dementia-Friendly Faith Communities” on Thursday, August 13th. In the first part of the program, attendees will be led through a Dementia Friends training. The second half will include a presentation on providing effective spiritual support to people with dementia and addressing a congregation's attitudes toward dementia. Attendees will leave concrete resources to get started in becoming a dementia-friendly congregation. Our continuing education symposiums are…
Find out more »Faith Community Nurse Foundations Course
Shenandoah University’s Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing is proud to support the role of Faith Community Nurses in our community by offering our innovative program with The Foundations of Faith Community Nurse Course. Our Upcoming Foundations Course will be: August 21, 2020 – October 23, 2020 The first session on August 21 will be virtual. The last session on October 23 may be in-person. This will be determined by Virginia’s COVID-1919 guidelines. The rest of the course will be…
Find out more »Transitional Care Training for Faith Community Nurses
The West Virginia University School of Nursing offers the Transitional Care course is designed to provide the faith community nurse with background knowledge on the needs of community members who are in the process of transitioning in care. This might include from the hospital to home, from the hospital to the nursing home, from the hospital to home with hospice and many other transitional times. The course uses the national Transitional Care Training book through the Westberg Institute. Each student…
Find out more »ONLINE – Foundations in Faith Community Nursing
Faith Community Nurses assist the members of their faith community to maintain and/or regain wholeness in body, mind, and spirit. Curriculum Explore the personal and professional dimensions of spirituality and the process of developing a parish nurse ministry within a community of faith. The curriculum follows the guidelines recommended by the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing. Program Objectives Upon completion, the participant will be able to: • Apply knowledge and skills to implement a health ministry in a faith community.…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This totally online foundations course will prepare you to function as a faith community nurse. This course follows the curriculum as outlined by the Westberg Institute for FCN. For more information please email See link to our Brochure Below https://www.osfhealthcare.org/media/filer_public/5f/84/5f840873-10ed-4bc9-bf30-c679448e193d/faith_community_nursing_brochure_fall_2020.pdf
Find out more »September 2020
Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
FCNN offers the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course in a 36.5 contact hour format taught by professional nursing faculty who are both educators and experienced faith community nurses representing an array of faith traditions. The interactive, small-group format of our course allows students to share and learn from one another as well. While the course is essential for RNs who want to enter the specialized practice of faith community nursing, it also provides all RNs with skills needed to…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Faith Community Nurses provide intentional care to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals and communities. This eight-week online course utilizes the 2019 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing curriculum to help nurses in any faith or spiritual community to provide healing, wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention. Participants must be a registered nurse with an unencumbered, active license. Participants should also have access to a computer, as all course activity is conducted through the use of a web-based learning…
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8 week hybrid course with 3 in person sessions; 34 contact hours
Find out more »University of Southern Indiana Faith Community Nursing Program
Faith community nursing is identified as a specialty nursing practice that combines professional nursing and health ministry. The conceptual model for faith community utilizes four major concepts: the spiritual dimension, professionalism, wholistic health, and community. The program was designed using the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum (2019) developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing, in consultation with the National League of Nursing and the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Do you have a calling to use your nursing gifts to serve your faith community? Do you want to gain knowledge and skills to build and sustain a healing ministry? Join us for this course offered to registered nurses of all faiths who want to pursue the specialized practice of faith community nursing. Learn to integrate the practices of faith and nursing to care for the whole-person, merging mind, body and spirit. This 6 week blended course combines independent study…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
The Foundations Course is based on the curriculum developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing, a ministry of Church Health Center. DUET has been approved to offer the standardized curriculum. This course will be offered on a VIRTUAL Platform. It is a 5.5 day course. Course dates will be September 17, 18, and 19 (Part One) and October 1,2, and 3 (Part Two). Course hours are from 7:30 AM to 5 PM most days. Contact Anne Varner RN,…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Hybrid Course and Retreat
An intensive hybrid course offered in the lovely retreat setting at the Center for Spirituality in Rockhill, SC. 10 Hours of pre-course work required; all meals, and accommodations provided, to include (3) textbooks, certificate of completion and stained glass window pin.
Find out more »The Faith Community Nurse Role in Supporting Family Caregivers
Lori Anderson, RN, MSN, PHN, FCN, will present on evolving, whole-person approaches to providing support to family caregivers and identify best-practice tools and resources to develop a family caregiving ministry. Attendees will leave with a self-care plan for family caregivers. The Faith Community Nurse Network's continuing education symposiums are designed to meet the needs of faith community nurses, with relevant information and practical resources. The new virtual Zoom format is still interactive and provides opportunities to network with your FCN…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
This is a Foundations Faith Community Nurse Basic Course. It will be offered on a VIRTUAL Platform through Microsoft Teams. Course hours are from 5:00-9:30pm on Fridays and 9:00-5:30pm on Saturdays. The 6-day Course required attendance dates are the following: September 18-19, October 16-17, and November 20-21 (Fridays & Saturdays) in the Fall of 2020, and also January 15-16, February 12-13, and March 12-13 for Spring 2021. All Location: Microsoft Teams Meetings from your own home or workplace. All day…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
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. Contact Dr. Angel Smothers, DNP, APRN with questions as
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 September and October sessions. Due to COVID-19, class size will be small, distancing and food safety measures will be observed. Class dates are: September 25, 26 and October 23, 24, 2020. Participants will be awarded 38 ANCC contact hours for full participation. No partial credit will be awarded. Cost is $450 and includes continental breakfasts,…
Find out more »Catholic Health’s FCN Program & the PArish Nurse Ministries of NY, Inc. present the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing “Web Based” Educational Curriculum
This Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course, developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing in consultation with the National League of Nursing (NLN) and the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center (ANACC), explores this specialty practice which combines professional nursing with health ministry. Developed from the Judeo-Christian perspective, this 2019 curriculum is respectful of, and can be applied to, other faith traditions by exploring their differences and similarities. Some additional areas of discovery include: Practice History and Philosophy, Ethical…
Find out more »October 2020
Faith Community Nursing Basic Course
October 2020, 1,2,3,15,16,17,29,30,31. Thursday/Friday classes 5-9, and Saturday classes 8-1 pm. All classes will be on Zoom. Cost: $325.00 all books included. Contact: Sue Buchanan, text, email or call. , 765-477-6150
Find out more »January 2021
Virtual Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Duet is proud to present our Virtual Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course! Our program offers the only Foundations course in Arizona We now have the capacity to go Nation-wide with the Virtual Platform. Faith Community Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as part of the process of promotion of whole person health and the prevention or minimization of illness within the context of a faith community and…
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