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Find out more »January 2017
Westberg Event
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Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
A 34-38 hour course focusing on the entry-level knowledge necessary for FCN practice. It sections include spirituality, professionalism, wholistic health, and community. This course fulfills the educational requirement for Board certification in faith community nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). To find a course in your area click here. To receive the FCN monthly newsletter, click here.
Find out more »February 2017
Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This online course implements the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course will provide information to allow you to develop your FCN practice in a way that will be unique to you and your faith community. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Training specifically designed for health ministry is necessary to understand the focus and tasks of the ministry. Courses are available in many locations throughout the US and in several countries on five continents. The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Classes (formerly Parish Nurse Basic Preparation) for faith community nursing are in a variety of formats including weekly classes, on-line courses, retreat settings, and combinations of independent study and class work.
Find out more »Vis-a-vis Basisseminar/Foundation Course for Faith Community Nursing
Vis-a-vis basisseminar/Foundation course for Parish Nursing in Germany
Find out more »Gwinnett Medical Center
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Find out more »Online FCN Coordinator/Manager Course
This online course implements the Faith Community Nurse Coordinator/Manager Course 2012 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course equips FCNs in leadership and management positions to work with FCNs in various practice settings within a congregation or healthcare organization. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions in all…
Find out more »March 2017
Collecting the Wisdom: Harnessing The Power of Faith Community Nursing
The 10th annual Faith Community Nurses Association 2017 Conference is scheduled for Friday, March 3, 2017 at Crossings Community Center, 10255 North Pennsylvania Ave, Oklahoma City OK. This conference will explore the progression of Faith Community Nursing, use the Book of Esther to examine the role of Faith Community Nursing, encourage Faith Community Nurses to discuss their own individual ministry activities, and examine a pastor’s perspective of implementation of health initiatives in a congregation.This conference will feature nationally known, Susan…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
This is a Blended (Hybrid) format of the Foundations of FCN course. We will meet face to face at the beginning of the course (March 3) and at the end of the course (May 19, 2017). The rest of the course in an Online format.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Registration Deadline extended until 2/20/17- Register now!!! Don't miss this engaging, spiritually fulfilling course. Using the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Revision curriculum developed by the International Parish Nurse Resource Center A Ministry of the Church Health Center © 2014 Church Health Center, participants will engage in 7 weeks of online learning (approximately 5 hours per week) followed by a 2 day retreat for an optimum educational and personal growth experience. Reliable computer access is required. Participants will learn…
Find out more »Parish Nursing: Co-Creating Healthy Communities and the International Westberg on the Road, UK
United Kingdom Westberg Workshops: Advance Spiritual Care and Faith Community Nurse Transitional Care. PNM UK Conference Flyer
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Pacific Lutheran University, 12180 Park Avenue South, Tacoma, WA98447 Hybrid class: Face-to-face: Beginning of class March 9 and 10, 2017 End of class May 19 Online: March 13 – May 12 This Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum course (2014) is based on the curriculum developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing, which is owned by Church Health of Memphis, Inc. Call Louise Reulbach, (253) 535-7683 or e-mail <>
Find out more »The Spirituality Conference and the Westberg on the Road, California
Newport Beach, California Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Health Ministries and Nursing Outreach. Westberg Workshops: Advance Spiritual Care and Faith Community Nurse Transitional Care. Spirituality Conference Westberg Flyer
Find out more »Faith Community Nursing Coordinator Course
University of Portland, Franz Hall, Rm. 120, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd, Portland, OR 97203 This three day, 26 contact hour class, is based on the Faith Community Nurse Coordinator Course Curriculum (2012 Revision) designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course equips FCNs in leadership and management positions to work with FCNs in a variety of practice settings within a faith community or healthcare organization. Please call…
Find out more »Faith Community 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 (2014) developed through the International Parish Nurse Resource Center, in consultation with the National League of Nursing and the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing and Health Ministry
The purpose of this course is to provide participants with information, skills, experiences, and tools to assist them to begin and continue to develop their roles as faith community (parish) nurses and health minister. Participants will earn 37.5 contact hours for the course. Please note that the class meets each Friday and Saturday from March 25 through April 8.
Find out more »Foundations in Faith Community Nursing ~ South Jersey
The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to understand the necessary core knowledge to practice Faith Community Nursing ~ For successful completion, participants are required to be in attendance in the full activity, complete all assigned self-learning modules, complete and submit the program evaluation at the conclusion of the educational event ~ This continuing nursing education activity (41 contact hours) is approved by New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s…
Find out more »April 2017
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Faith Community Nurse Network offers the International Parish Nurse Resource Center (IPNRC) certified course which meets all requirements of ANA's Faith Community Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice. While the course is a pre-requisite for RNs who want to enter faith community nursing practice, it provides all RNs with skills needed to integrate spiritual care into their nursing practice.
Find out more »Continuing Education Symposium: Advocacy and Gun Violence
On April 19, we will hear presentations about Advocacy and Gun Violence from Kathi Koehn, MA, RN, FAAN, Executive Director of MNORN, and Rev. Nancy Nord Bence, Executive Director of Protect Minnesota. Kathi will help us understand how we, as a group, can work together to advocate about things that matter to us. $50 / $25 (FCN rate) per symposium $150 / $75 (FCN rate) for the series of four symposiums For more information and to register, go to: http://www.fcnntc.org/continuing-education-symposiums.html
Find out more »North Central Westberg on the Road, Michigan
Lansing, Michigan Greater Michigan Health Ministries Network, Henry Ford Macomb Hospital and Michigan Hospital Association. Westberg workshops: Advance Spiritual Care and Faith Community Nurse Transitional Care. GMI Conference Flyer
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Course Description Foundations of Faith Community Nursing- This 36 CE course focuses on applying the nursing process in a leadership role of health ministry in a community of faith. This course examines the four major concepts of Faith Community Nursing: spirituality, professionalism, wholistic health, and community and cultural diversity. Students will identify the key components of the “intentional care of the spirit as part of the process of promoting wholistic health and preventing or minimizing illness in a faith community”…
Find out more »Southeastern Westberg on the Road, Georgia
Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Medical Center, Georgia Faith Community Nurses Association: Westberg workshops: Advance Spiritual Care and Faith Community Nurse Transitional Care. GMC Conference Flyer
Find out more »May 2017
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Marian University Leighton School of Nursing is offering the Foundations Faith Community Nursing Course online May 1-June 2, 2017. Orientation is at Marian University April 28, 2017m 3:00-5:00 EST.
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This online course implements the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course will provide information to allow you to develop your FCN practice in a way that will be unique to you and your faith community. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions…
Find out more »South Central Westberg on the Road, Texas
May 2, 2017 11:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m. $65 Lunch Included Refunds for registration will not be available after April 17th. To ensure your registration, any checks or money orders mailed should be post marked by Monday April 17, 2017. Be sure to visit the Church Health Bookstore with special sale offerings during this conference. For conference registration click: South Central Westberg on the Road. La Quinta Inn & Suites San Antonio Riverwalk • Sleeping Rooms: Singles or Doubles $139.00 • Complimentary…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This course will be offered hybrid. Weekly modules will be completed using an online platform. The last class will be face-to-face at Widener University, Chester, PA. If you are not able to come to campus for the last class you can be virtually included in the activities. Forty (40) CE hours will be awarded upon completion of the course.
Find out more »Faith Community Nursing – Enfermagem na Comunidade de Fé – Brazil
Our next basic course about Faith Community Nursing will be held on May, 21th, 2017, at the Adventist University of Sao Paulo (UNASP/SP), from 8am to 6pm. It will be a blended course, completed with lectures online (Unasp virtual) by Mary Slutz, Katia Reinert, Marlise Lima and Gina Abdala (previously recorded). More information: 55-11-2128-6249 (portuguese) or 19-98389-3330 (english). The cost is 120 (reals) or 33 dollars and they will receive a 40 hours certificate.
Find out more »Foundations for Faith Community Nursing Course Memphis
FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH COMMUNITY NURSING COURSE Faith community nursing provides a wholistic blending of nursing expertise and spiritual care as professional nurses practice in congregations and faith-based organizations as part of the ministry team. This educational program is organized to assist all faith communities to grow toward wholistic health from a global perspective and to develop local community outreach opportunities. This non-denominational Foundations of Faith Community (parish) Nursing course offers experienced registered nurses an educational program based on the 2014…
Find out more »Faith Community Nursing Course Online….West Virginia University
A FCN course will be held online for nurses and ministerial staff who are interested in learning more about the work of a faith community nurse.
Find out more »June 2017
Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Faith Community nursing is a specialized area of professional nursing practice focusing on the promotion of health and wellness within the context of the values, beliefs and practices of a faith community. Continuing education credit will be offered at the completion of each module. There are 18 modules, each is worth 2-3 contact hours. Course Dates: September 3, 2017-December 17, 2017
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course & Retreat
Faith Community Nursing provides a wholistic blending of nursing expertise and spiritual care as professional nurses practice in congregations, faith-based organizations, and other health institutions as part of the ministry team. This educational program is designed to assist all faith communities to grow toward wholistic health from a global perspective and to develop community outreach opportunities. This course is based on the 2014 curriculum developed by the Westberg Institute in Memphis, TN. The course is open to registered nurses of…
Find out more »Refreshing Your Soul: Enhancing Your Health Ministry and Westberg on the Road, Maine
Kennebunk, Maine: Saint Anselm College: Maine Saint Anselm Parish Nurse Brochure Parish Nurse Conference Registration Link Westberg Workshops: Advance Spiritual Care and Prayer
Find out more »Continuing Education Symposium: Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson's Disease is our topic on June 21. Rose Wichmann, PT, Manager of the Struthers Parkinson's Center will lead a program on this increasingly common disease. She'll also share information about other related neurological disorders. $50 / $25 (FCN rate) per symposium $150 / $75 (FCN rate) for the series of four symposiums For more information and to register, go to: http://www.fcnntc.org/continuing-education-symposiums.html
Find out more »July 2017
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Tuality Health Education Center, 334 SE 8th Avenue, Hillsboro, OR, 97123 July 13-15 and July 27-29, 2017 This Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum course is based on the curriculum developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing, which is owned by Church Health of Memphis, Inc. The basic schedule for this program is 8:00 am to 5:00 pm daily. Attendance for the entire six-day program is expected. This Foundations course is $400, which includes required materials and resources.…
Find out more »Faith Community Nursing for the Future: The Revised Scope and Standards of Practice Workshop
This workshop will examine how nursing specialty standards of practice are developed and brought into use in clinical practice. It will examine the emerging trends that are influencing faith community nursing, health care, and the nursing profession and describe competencies associated with evaluation of professional practice.
Find out more »Faith Community Nursing Educator Course “Memphis”
The 2017 Faith Community Nursing Educator Course for New and Additional Educators will be held July 30, 2017-August 1, 2017 in Memphis, Tennessee. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION Educator Course Memphis 2017
Find out more »August 2017
Educator & Coordinator Retreat “Memphis”
The 2017 Faith Community Nursing Educator and Coordinator Retreat will be held on August 1-3, 2017 in Memphis, Tennessee. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION Educator & Coordinator Retreat Memphis 2017
Find out more »Lee Health
CLICK HERE 2017 Brochure Foundations FCN Course Tuition includes all program materials, 40 contact hours (CEU’s), Parish Nurse Certificate and Pin, Daily lunch and snacks included. Course Schedule August 4, 5, 6 Fri, Sat & Sun 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. August 11 Friday *9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. August 12 Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. August 13 Sunday 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course
Hybrid Foundations of Faith Community Nurse course with three in-person sessions; attendance required for entire program; 38 contact hours.
Find out more »Coordinators Course “Memphis”
The 2017 Faith Community Nursing Coordinator Course will be held August 28-30, 2017 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing and Health Ministry
August 28 - December 11, 2017 and January 7 - April 23, 2018 Recurring fall and spring each year This certificate program is designed to prepare RN's to serve effectively within their faith communities. The Faith Community Nurses assist the members of their faith community to maintain and/or regain wholeness in body, mind, and spirit. The curriculum follows the guidelines recommended by the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing. Approved for 45 contact hours.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nurse Course
Foundations of Faith Community Nurse Course: online with synchronous LIVE discussion through use of Adobe Connect web-based classroom. Meets weekly on Tuesday evenings 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Recorded sessions available for those unable to attend live session. 13 week course, 1 week orientation, 12 weeks content Weekly, the time commitment is about 5 hours: 3.0 hours reading and preparing answers, 1.5 active discussion during AC LIVE class or listening to RECORDED session, 0.5 hours completing online evaluation, posting answers to ecollege,…
Find out more »September 2017
Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Faith Community nursing is a specialized area of professional nursing practice focusing on the promotion of health and wellness within the context of the values, beliefs and practices of a faith community. This course is affiliated with Westberg Institute of the Church Health Center (formerly the International Parish Nurse Resource Center).
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This online course implements the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course will provide information to allow you to develop your FCN practice in a way that will be unique to you and your faith community. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. 49546
Class meets Fridays 4pm-9:30pm January 12, February 9 and March 9, and Saturdays 9am-6:30pm January 13, February 10 and march 10, 2018
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Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course.
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Foundations of FCN Course offered by Sanford Health in the Dakota's, using a hybrid model. Join us for a 2-day retreat at beautiful Lake Poinsett, Living Waters Retreat Center in Arlington, SD, Sept 8-9, 2017. Following the in-person retreat, classes continue Monday evenings Sept 11-Nov 13, 5:50 -9pm either in person in Fargo, ND or Sioux Falls, SD, or from your office or home via Skype. Faculty from Sioux Falls and Fargo regions. ANCC credits available.
Find out more »Foundations Faith Community Nursing
CLICK HERE to See Flyer Foundations of Faith Community Nursing: at Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital, (1700 Medical Center Parkway Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Classrooms A&B) Lester Williams Conference Dining Room B on September 8 & 22, 23, 2017 from 7 am to 5 pm each day. Class fee is $150 which includes meals and all educational materials.
Find out more »Online Faith Community Nursing Course
West Virginia University School of Nursing will be holding an all online Faith Community Nursing course starting September 11, 2017- November 5, 2017. This course is taught all online and also includes optional live meetings in an online classroom each week on Thursday evening. There is also an optional meeting at the end. The cost is $400 for the full 8 week course and your will receive a certificate of training through the Westberg Institute and also a certificate from…
Find out more »Faith Community 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 (2014) developed through the International Parish Nurse Resource Center, in consultation with the National League of Nursing and the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center.
Find out more »2nd PN Faith Community Nursing Symposium and Christmas Lunch
Pakistan Peshawar KPK FCN are going to Organize their second symposium and Christmas Lunch on Saturday 9thDec,2017. The event is supervised by Mam JoVeta Wescott from America. Do remember us In Prayers.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Come join other faith community nurses and health ministers for a time of adult learning and fellowship! Our Course is designed as a hybrid course meaning we offer both in-classroom presentations and online modules. Our instructors come from a wide range of backgrounds and knowledge in their specific areas of expertise. We have many years of health ministry experience both as volunteer and salaried faith community nurses. The in-classroom presentations are the following five dates: Sept 15, 16, & 30; and…
Find out more »Duet Fall 2017 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
When: Friday and Saturday, September 15 – 16 & October 13 – 14, 2017, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm Location: Duet, 555 W. Glendale Ave, Phoenix, AZ, 85021 Cost: $400 The Foundations course includes 38 CEUs, course materials, resources and continental breakfast/lunch refreshments. Registration is due by September 1, 2017. Click here for class web link, brochure and methods of registration For additional information, please contact our Congregational Health Director, April Polley, BSN, RN, MBA at , 602-274-5022.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing – Hybrid Class
This Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum course is based on the curriculum developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing, which is owned by Church Health of Memphis, Inc. The schedule is two days of face-to-face classes, 8 weeks of online instruction, followed by one more day of face-to-face class. This Foundations course is $400, which includes required materials and resources. Times: September 17: 11 am-7 pm, September 18: 11 am-7 pm and December 3, 2017: 11 am-7 pm. face-to-face…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing – Hybrid Class
This Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum course is based on the curriculum developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing, which is owned by Church Health of Memphis, Inc. The basic schedule for this program for the face-to-face portion is 8:00 am to 5:00 pm daily. There are 8 weeks of online learning. This Foundations course is $400, which includes required materials and resources. Face-to-face September 21, 22, and Dec. 1, 2017 Locations: September 21, Redeemer Lutheran…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Gwinnett Medical Center’s Faith Community Nursing Department is offering an educational opportunity to RNs who want to learn how to use your professional nursing knowledge and skills to deliver whole person health…mind, body and spirit…in a faith community setting. This course, presented by Faith Community Nursing of GMC, uses the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing curriculum provided by the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing to educate registered nurses about the issues and challenges that come with this specialty practice…
Find out more »October 2017
Online FCN Coordinator/Manager Course
This online course implements the Faith Community Nurse Coordinator/Manager Course 2012 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course equips FCNs in leadership and management positions to work with FCNs in various practice settings within a congregation or healthcare organization. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions in all…
Find out more »Foundations in Faith Community Nursing Course
This course consists of 4 days of interactive classroom instruction: October 6, 7 and November 3, 4, 2017. In addition, there are 8 hours of independent learning assignments, to be completed in preparation for the course or between the October and November sessions. Thirty-six ANCC contact hours will be awarded for full participation. No partial credit will be awarded.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Utilizing the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Curriculum, this course will provide the basic tools necessary to begin your FCN ministry. This intensive week long course is open to all registered nurses representing different denominations and serving in a variety of faith community settings. The general schedule for this program is: Th/Su - 12:30 am to 7:30 pm; F/Sa/- 7:30 am to 7:30 pm; M - 7:30 to 4:00 pm. The Foundations course is $450 and includes 36 contact hours,…
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Vincennes University Jasper, in cooperation with Memorial Hospital and Healthcare Center is pleased to offer specialized training for nurses. This non-credentialing course is designed to introduce and prepare registered nurses for the specialty practice of faith community nursing. Classes offered in Jasper, IN for 6 class sessions Oct. 12, 13 & 14 and Nov 9, 10, 11, 2017. What is Faith Community Nursing? Faith community nurses are licensed, registered nurses who practice wholistic health for self, individuals and the community…
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Faith Community Nurse Network offers the International Parish Nurse Resource Center (IPNRC) certified course which meets all requirements of ANA's Faith Community Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice. While the course is a pre-requisite for RNs who want to enter faith community nursing practice, it provides all RNs with skills needed to integrate spiritual care into their nursing practice.
Find out more »Advanced Preparation Course for Faith Community Nurse Coordinators and Managers
The course is based on the 2012 curriculum developed through the International Parish Nurse Resource Center in consultation with the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Credentialing Center. This continuing education activity is provided by Shenandoah University, an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Virginia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. COURSE OBJECTIVES At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to demonstrate: * Knowledge, attitudes…
Find out more »Foundations in Faith Community Nursing Course
This Foundations course teaches how to support health and healing in partnership with faith communities. The course is held at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta and includes five full days of training--all textbooks, materials, meals, and commissioning service and pin are included in the $450 registration fee (course is free to Emory Healthcare RNs). Attendees will also learn about the Emory FCN program and opportunities for participation.
Find out more »Continuing Education Symposium: Intentional Listening
You will learn how to incorporate intentional listening into your FCN practice through a practical presentation by Liz Andress, BA, MA. Liz has taught intentional listening skills to countless groups and organizations and has led numerous congregations in valuable "inreach" exercises. $50 / $25 (FCN rate) per symposium $150 / $75 (FCN rate) for the series of four symposiums For more information and to register, go to: http://www.fcnntc.org/continuing-education-symposiums.html
Find out more »25th Annual Mercy Parish Nurse and Health Ministry Symposium
Our Annual Symposium is designed to for those interested in learning more about health ministry and networking with others (i.e. faith community nurses, clergy, physicians, pastoral and social ministers, social workers, health ministers, other health care professionals, nursing and seminarian students, and lay persons) This year's symposium theme is about celebrating our past, present and future with health ministry. We offer different guest speakers, buffet brunch, parking and nursing continuing education credits. More details coming soon on our website www.pittsburghmercy.org
Find out more »November 2017
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum
The course is designed to prepare RN’s to deliver wholistic, non-invasive health care in the faith community setting according to the Faith Community Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice from the American Nurses Association. Goals • Gain theoretical and practical knowledge essential to the understanding and development of an effective Faith Community Nurse practice. • Provide an opportunity for the beginning Faith Community nurse to join a network of Faith Community nurses for continuing professional development. • Examine the role…
Find out more »January 2018
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Grow2Serve Online course
This course explores the specialty practice of Faith Community Nursing that combines professional nursing and health ministry, emphasizing health and healing within the faith community and the larger community. It offers registered nurses with a strong spiritual faith the knowledge to implement and facilitate a Faith Community Nursing ministry, as well as practical opportunity to apply learnings from the course to the dynamic nature of their faith community and its particular needs. This course is derived from the curriculum endorsed…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Join us in Apple Valley CA for a 36 CEU Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course offered through Hoag Health Ministries. January 11 from 4:30 - 9:00 PM; January 12, 13, 26, 27 from 8:00 - 4:30 PM Pacific Standard Time. Course instructors: Susan Johnson, RN-BC, MPH and Nancy Amo, BSN, RN. Cost: $100 for St Mary RNs; $200 for all other RNs or Health Ministers. For course description, registration and fees please contact or
Find out more »Symposium: “Vulnerable Adults”
Join us for a dynamic presentation beginning with the Giving Voice Chorus, a chorus made up of individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and their caregivers. Learn about how music helps those affected by Alzheimer’s. Then, hear from Kelli Klein, an Adult Protection Resource Specialist at the MN Department of Human Services. Attendees will be provided light refreshments and will be awarded 3.6 contact hours. Visit www.fcnntc.org/education/continuing-education-symposiums/ for details.
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course is totally online and asynchronous.
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This online course implements the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course will provide information to allow you to develop your FCN practice in a way that will be unique to you and your faith community. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions…
Find out more »February 2018
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Shenandoah University’s Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing’s Faith Community Nurse Certificate Program will offer Foundations of Faith Community Nursing in Spring of 2018. This offering is a Blended format. DATES: Running from February to April, 2018. There will be two (2) Face to Face sessions in the beginning of the course (February) and at the finish of the course (April). The rest of the course will be completed Online. COST: $400 includes tuition, materials, pins & breakfast/lunch. TIME: Earn…
Find out more »Faith Community Nurse Foundations Course
The purpose of this educational activity is to prepare the nurse to initiate and maintain a faith community nurse ministry within a given congregation and to function in the leadership role for the faith community's health ministry. To meet the needs of today’s busy nurse, the Augustana faith community nurse course provides a hybrid format. Approximately two thirds of the course is offered through self-paced and interactive on-line learning modules. The course begins with a one day on-site meet and…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This fully online course is based on the revised 2014 Westberg Institute curriculum. The course opens February 9, 2018, and runs through March 10, 2018. The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is offered 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…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course February 12, 2018 @ 8:00 AM - April 27, 2018 @ 12:00 MN CST. 40 CNE awarded upon successful course completion. Fee: $400 beginning January 21 -February 5, 2018 $450. You may go to bit.lylffcn2018 to register or for more information.Presented by Methodist Health System Faith Community Nursing Program, Dallas, TX. Faith Community Nursing requires the ability to integrate current nursing, behavioral, environmental, and spiritual knowledge with the unique spiritual beliefs and religious…
Find out more »Online FCN Coordinator/Manager Course
This online course implements the Faith Community Nurse Coordinator/Manager Course 2012 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course equips FCNs in leadership and management positions to work with FCNs in various practice settings within a congregation or healthcare organization. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions in all…
Find out more »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. This course is all online with an optional onsite retreat at the end of the course. Cost is $400 and…
Find out more »March 2018
Hybrid Foundations in Faith Community Nursing/Health Ministry
This foundation course prepares currently licensed RNs for a Faith Community Nurse ministry and other caring individuals for a role as a Health Minister in an interfaith partnership of service to faith communities and to the wider community of health systems. The FCN/HM Foundation course includes 18 modules (providing 38 contact hours) designed to deliver whole person health and integrated programs in mind, body, and spirit wellness using the curriculum developed by the International Parish Nurse Resource Center (The Westberg…
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CANCELED - Please call if interested in future course offerings. Foundations of Faith Community Nursing: 40 CE units March 5, 2018- May 9, 2018 10 weeks on line followed by a mandatory 2 day retreat at Azusa Pacific University May 8 & 9 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1URpU_eNhPFM-DoJQEH4pXAHxK66LKzz-/view?usp=sharing
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Sponsored by: Health Ministries of Central Minnesota & Faith Community Nurse Partnership of Central Minnesota & CentraCare Health System Faith Community Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as well as the promotion of whole-person health and the prevention or minimization of illness within the context of a faith community and the wider community. From 3rd Edition of Faith Community Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice; 2017 ANA & HMA.…
Find out more »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 (2014) 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
Objectives: Establish a plan to start a Faith Community Nurse Program Integrate basic concepts of faith and health in relation to building an effective faith-based health program Apply knowledge of spirituality and scripture to the practice of Faith Community Nursing, and develop counseling, visitation, advocacy and referral skills and services Know sources of continuing education and Faith Community Nursing support and networking in the southern New Jersey area and nationally
Find out more »April 2018
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This non-denominational course is based on the endorsed curriculum through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing, A Ministry of Church Health (Formerly known as International Parish Nurse Resource Center). The class will meet April 5, 6, 7, May 3, 4, 5, 2018 from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. You must attend all classes. There will be an optional Commissioning Ceremony on May 6, 2018.
Find out more »Spring 2018 Foundations in Faith Community Nursing Hybrid Course- Springfield Illinois
The Spring 2018 course is a "hybrid" model which includes two full-day in-seat classes* with four remote access classes (Skype) on Wednesday evenings. Monday, April 9, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (In-seat class) Wednesday, April 11, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. (Skype) Wednesday, April 18, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. (Skype) Wednesday, April 25, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. (Skype) Wednesday, May 2, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. (Skype) Friday, May 4, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (In-seat class) Pre-course material will be mailed/emailed…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
This is a week-long, classroom-based course taught by an interfaith team of experienced faith community nurses and nursing educators. 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 integrate spiritual care into their nursing practice. The course utilizes the current International Parish Nurse Resource Center curriculum that emphasizes the spiritual dimension, professionalism, wholistic health and community as its central conceptual model for Faith…
Find out more »Duet Spring 2018 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
The Duet Foundations course uses a hybrid format consisting of three online modules and community assignments that complement the 4 days of class time. The course is scheduled over two Fridays and Saturdays: April 13-14 and May 4-5, 2018. 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 promoting wholistic health and preventing or minimizing illness. This course will provide you with that knowledge and…
Find out more »Symposium: Deaf, Hearing Loss, and New Technologies
Mary Bauer, a Deaf/Hard of Hearing Specialist, is well-known for her interactive presentations and brings her own perspective as a person who is hard of hearing. We will learn about identifying signs of hearing loss, affordable assistive technologies, and communication strategies. With 1 in 3 people between ages 65 and 74, and 1 in 2 people over the age of 75 having a hearing loss, this is must-have information for your FCN practice. Attendees will be provided light refreshments and will be awarded 3.6 contact hours. Visit www.fcnntc.org/education/continuing-education-symposiums/ for details.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing and Health Minister Hybrid Course
This course is offered through Pacific Lutheran University's Center for Continued Nursing Learning in partnership with Faith Community Nursing /Health Ministries Northwest and CHI Franciscan Health Congregational Health Ministries. April 19 and 20, 2018 will be face-to-face presentations and small group experiences followed by 8 weeks of Concordia University hosted online modules (April 30 - June 22, 2018) and a last day face-to-face gathering on June 29 for followup and certificate presentation will provide the necessary education for RNs and…
Find out more »St. Vincent’s HealthCare Annual Faith Community Nursing Foundation Course Curriculum Training
The Foundation Course Curriculum Training is design to prepare and equip RN's to embrace the specialty practice of FCN, while bridging their individual faith, professional skills/ nursing practice with the faith community, promoting health/wellness, education and spiritual empowerment from a "wholist" approach serving their individual faith community. The educational training will provide skills on the intentional care of the spirit, knowledge and resources materials to assist the members of the faith community and other faith-based organizations to maintain and/or regain wholeness in body, mind, and spirit.
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This online course implements the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course will provide information to allow you to develop your FCN practice in a way that will be unique to you and your faith community. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions…
Find out more »May 2018
Faith Community Nurse and Healthy Ministry Educational Support Meetings
Goal: To emphasize the importance of lifelong learning, fellowship, networking, and peer support for faith community nurses, registered nurses, clergy/laity, health ministers, and anyone interested in learning more about wholistic care approach (whole-person care; balancing body, mind, and spirit) and committed to educating their local parishioners. Theme: Spiritual Care - Becoming a Healing Presence We are offering various locations and presenting the same content. Each meeting is free for those who do not wish to receive continuing educational credits. The cost…
Find out more »June 2018
Foundations In Faith Community Nursing Course
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Training Nurses in Health Ministry Who will benefit from this course? This course is designed for Registered Nurses interested in becoming, or currently working as, a Faith Community Nurse in a paid or non-compensated model. What can you expect to learn? The course is based on the Standard Curriculum endorsed by the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing and will give you the training you need to become a health advocate while providing intentional care…
Find out more »Faith Community Nursing Course….All Online
There will be an 8-week-long online faith community nursing course starting June 4th and lasting until July 28th. This 8-week course is all online with optional live online classroom meetings and an optional live meeting in person at the end of the course. After completion of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion from the Westberg Institute and a CE certificate for 32 hours of CE credit from West Virginia University . Please feel free to contact the…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
This fully online course is based on the revised 2014 Westberg Institute curriculum. The course opens June 8, 2018, and runs through July 7, 2018. The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is offered 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…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
The course is open to all Registered Nurses with an active RN license representing different denominations who will serve in a variety of faith community settings. The Foundations course is $80 per day or $400 for the week, which includes all materials and resources. The course plus overnight accommodations, lodging, and meals is $695. Scholarships are available. Please call for more details.
Find out more »Symposium: Spiritual Distress
Rabbi Zimmerman, the Senior Rabbi at Temple Israel in Minneapolis, will lead attendees in examining how they recognize and respond to spiritual distress in those they serve. Attendees will be provided light refreshments and will be awarded 3.6 contact hours. Visit www.fcnntc.org/education/continuing-education-symposiums/ for more information.
Find out more »August 2018
2018 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course: August 3,4,5,10,11,12
Course based on the revised 2014 edition developed though the IPNRC and The Church Health Center through the Westberg Institute of Faith Community Nursing. Includes 40 CEUs, all materials, pinning ceremony and lunch/snacks. Each day is from 9am - 6pm.
Find out more »Online Course: The Art of Listening (3 contact hours)
The first course in our new series of online continuing education programs,"The Art of Listening: Healing Ourselves, Our Clients, Our Communities", will be available beginning August 15. Elizabeth Andress, MA, will guide learners in improving their deep listening skills as faith community nurses. Learners will also 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. Course…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nurse Course
Online webinar format. LIVE webinar sessions held Monday evenings 5:30pm to 7:30 pm. Recordings of LIVE sessions available for those unable to attend LIVE. August 20th, 2018 through November 19th, 2018. Cost $250. Questions, please contact Peggy Jacques at . Register: https://www.osfhealthcare.org/saint-francis/services/wellness-services/faith-community-nursing/
Find out more »Church Health Giving Day
For many people in Memphis, access to healthcare can change everything… And it has. Since 1987. And because of donors, friends and partners like you, we continue to help thousands of people and their families each year. Just how much have we grown? Church Health just completed its first fiscal year in our Crosstown Concourse home. Patient visits went up 17% in twelve months. You helped make this possible! Happy Anniversary! September 1 marks thirty-one years since our founder, Dr.…
Find out more »September 2018
Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This online course implements the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course will provide information to allow you to develop your FCN practice in a way that will be unique to you and your faith community. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Totally online option to complete the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course. No papers, no exams! Reasonably priced.
Find out more »Elim Care’s Foundations for Faith Community Nursing- 12 Week Online Course
This course explores the specialty practice of Faith Community Nursing which combines professional nursing and health ministry, emphasizing health and healing within the faith community and the larger community. It offers registered nurses with a strong spiritual faith the knowledge to implement and facilitate a Faith Community Nursing ministry, as well as practical opportunity to apply learning from the course to the dynamic nature of their faith community and its particular needs. During this course students need not be online…
Find out more »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 (2014) 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 »Fall 2018 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Hybrid Format Course
Fall 2018 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Hybrid Format Course September 14 – 15 / October 12 -13 7:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. $400 This course is based on the revised 2014 edition developed though the IPNRC and The Church Health Center through the Westberg Institute of Faith Community Nursing. This is a hybrid format course consisting of online modules and community assignments that compliment class time. Two hours of online module work must be completed prior the September scheduled…
Find out more »Foundation of Faith Community Nurse – Retreat and Course
Join us for the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course opening retreat at Living Waters Retreat Center on Lake Poinsett in Arlington, South Dakota Sept 14 & 15, 2018. This retreat will focus on Spirituality as an integral component for in Faith Community Nurse practice. It is a time to learn, develop relationships with other FCN's and a time of introspection about your own spirituality as you seek to serve others. The course will continue Monday evenings from 5:50 pm - 9:00pm, Sept 17-Nov 19 to cover wholistic health, community…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
The West Virginia University School of Nursing will be offering the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course all online this fall starting September 24th and lasting 8 weeks. The course will be online and include peer discussion board interaction. Each participant who completes the course will receive a certificate of training from the Westberg Institute and also a certificate for 32 hours of CE credit for nurses from the West Virginia University School of Nursing. The course is open to…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community/Parish Nursing Course
This course consists of 4 days of interactive classroom instruction: September 28, 29 and October 26, 27, 2018. In addition, there are 10 hours of independent learning assignments, to be completed in preparation for the course or between the September and October sessions. Thirty-eight ANCC contact hours will be awarded for full participation. No partial credit will be awarded.
Find out more »October 2018
Online FCN Coordinator/Manager Course
This online course implements the Faith Community Nurse Coordinator/Manager Course 2012 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course equips FCNs in leadership and management positions to work with FCNs in various practice settings within a congregation or healthcare organization. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions in all…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
This fully online course is based on the revised 2014 Westberg Institute curriculum. The course opens October 5, 2018, and runs through November 3, 2018. The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is offered 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…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course – Classroom only
Come and see Oregon! This classroom style Foundations Course will be offered in Lebanon, Oregon on October 8 and 9, 2018, October 22 and 23, 2018, and November 5 and 6, 2018. The class is sponsored by Faith Community Nursing/Health Ministries Northwest and is hosted by Am HaSefer - People of the Book and Trinity Baptist Church. A block of rooms has been reserved at Boulder Falls Inn (https://www.boulderfallsinn.com/). Classes will be held at Trinity Baptist Church, 72 East Elmore,…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
This is a week-long, classroom-based course taught by an interfaith team of experienced faith community nurses and nursing educators. 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 integrate spiritual care into their nursing practice. This course utilizes the current International Parish Nurse Resource Center curriculum that emphasizes the spiritual dimension, professionalism, wholistic health and community as its central conceptual model for Faith…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing – Hybrid Class
The Greater Seattle Faith Community Nurse Coordinators and Faith Community Nursing/Health Ministries Northwest are promoting this course, which is based on the revised 2014 edition curriculum developed through the IPNRC now known as the Westberg Institute of Faith Community Nursing and Church Health. There are 2 days of face to face teaching and 8 weeks of online teaching followed by a last day of face to face which includes graduation. 4 CEUs (40 contact hours) are included.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum – Fall 2018
The Mercy Parish Nurse and Health Ministry staff offer this hybrid course with interactive onsite and online learning. The 4-day Course required attendance dates are: October 12, 13, 26, and 27. Location: UPMC Mercy Hospital, Sr. M. Ferdinand Clark Auditorium, 1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219. The cost is $395.00 and includes continental breakfast, parking, and all curriculum materials. Apply early for $50 discount with application and full payment post marked by September 15, 2018. Partial scholarship available on a…
Find out more »November 2018
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Class (must attend all 4 classes)
November 1st, 2nd, 8th, & 9th, 2018 This 40 contact hour Hybrid Class includes on-site and on-line work. Grace United Methodist Church 2615 Clearwater Rd, St. Cloud, MN 56301 Fee: $450. Limited Scholarships available: See Directions and Guidelines for on attachment. Sponsored by: Health Ministries of Central Minnesota & Faith Community Nurse Partnership of Central Minnesota CentraCare Health Education & Professional Development Department Thursday, November 1, 3:00 - 9:00 p.m.; Friday, November 2, 8:00 - 4:30 p.m. Thursday, November 8,…
Find out more »January 2019
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI. 49546
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing class at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49546. The course will be held at Calvin College three weekends, Fridays 5:00 – 9:30 p.m. and Saturdays 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. January 11 & 12, February 8 & 9, March 8 & 9 Participants must attend all six sessions in Spring 2019. Pre-course materials will be mailed 3 weeks before the program begins. These materials will include an exact schedule, a worksheet for examining your spiritual journey and directions to the classroom on the Calvin campus.…
Find out more »Elim Care’s Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This 12 week, fully online course will explore the specialty practice of Faith Community Nursing which combines professional nursing and health ministry, emphasizing health and healing within the faith community and the larger community. It offers registered nurses with a strong spiritual faith the knowledge to implement and facilitate a Faith Community Nursing ministry, as well as practical opportunity to apply learning from the course to the dynamic nature of their faith community and its particular needs. The course is…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This online course implements the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course will provide information to allow you to develop your FCN practice in a way that will be unique to you and your faith community. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions…
Find out more »Symposium: The Opioid Epidemic & Naloxone Training
The presentation will begin with Randy Anderson, Overdose Prevention Manager at the Steve Rummler Hope Network. Participants will learn how and when to use Naloxone in the event of an overdose. After this hands on training, Rev. Dr. Ed Treat, Lead Pastor at Transfiguration Lutheran Church in Bloomington will present about the role churches and FCNs can play in the opioid crisis. Attendees will earn 3.0 nursing contact hours.
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
The West Virginia University School of Nursing offers a Faith Community Nursing course, in an all online format, 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. The nationally recognized foundations of faith community nursing course is also open to individuals who…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Spring 2019
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing: Illinois January 29th through April 30th, 2019 On line Hybrid Course | OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois |Cost: $250.00 |For more information, contact Peggy Jacques at (309) 256-6542 or email at . or visit our website at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Faith Community Nursing https://www.osfhealthcare.org/saint-francis/services/wellness-services/faith-community-nursing/
Find out more »February 2019
FCN Foundation Course
The purpose of this educational activity is to prepare the nurse to initiate and maintain a faith community nurse ministry within a given congregation and to function in the leadership role for the faith community's health ministry. Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course (Parish Nursing) is being offered February 2-March 27, 2019 on-line, followed by two days on-site April 5 & 6, 2019. There is an opening on-site date of February 2. Both parts are required for completion. Early Bird…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This fully online course is based on the revised 2014 Westberg Institute curriculum. The course opens February 8, 2019, and runs through March 11, 2019. The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is offered 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…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Online 11 week Course February 11- April 29, 2019 with 40 CNE Contact Hours. This Course utilizes the standardized core curricula developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing. Content includes spiritual care, legal and ethical issues, documentation of practice, health promotion , and advocacy. It is designed to provide registered nurses with the specialized knowledge and skills to professionally practice in a faith community setting. Fee: $400 until January 19th. January 20th - February 4th : $450. …
Find out more »Online FCN Coordinator/Manager Course
This online course implements the Faith Community Nurse Coordinator/Manager Course 2012 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course equips FCNs in leadership and management positions to work with FCNs in various practice settings within a congregation or healthcare organization. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions in all…
Find out more »Tacoma, WA: Faith Community Nursing
Hybrid Class – In person and Online In person dates: 2/28/19, 3/1/19, and 5/3/19 2/28 & 3/1 : 8am – 5:15pm, UC room 213 5/3 : 8am – 2:15pm, Karen H. P room 201 Location: Anderson University Center 12180 Park Avenue South Tacoma, WA 98447 8 week online sessions: March 4 – April 26, 2019 Experience a two and a half day program of presentations, small group experiences, interactive work and play, meditation and creative workshops. This in-class education course along with a…
Find out more »March 2019
Bellingham, WA: Foundations in Faith Community Nursing
Hybrid Class – In person and Online In person dates: 3/1 and 3/2/2019, and 5/5/2019 March 1; 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM March 2; 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM May 5; 1:00 PM – 9:00 PM Location: First Congregational Church 2401 Cornwall Ave., Bellingham, WA 98225 8 Week Online Sessions: March 4 – April 26, 2019 This health ministry preparation course is designed for registered, licensed retired nurses, allied health professionals, and caring and committed congregational or community members. When starting a health…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing curriculum was developed by the International Parish Nurse Resource Center and the Church Health Center in 2014 from a Judeo-Christian perspective that is respectful of and applicable to other faith traditions. Students will learn about the history and philosophy of faith community nursing, health and healing from various faith traditions, and issues of life transitions, such as loss, suffering and violence. Professional ethics, documentation and tools to begin practice as a faith community nurse…
Find out more »Basic Foundations Course for Faith Community Nursing
Basic Foundations Course / Westberg Institute This classroom course runs four days/ 8 hours each day/ 38 CEU under provider #CEP 16667 HEART Courses Provider. The curriculum is comprised of 4 modules which prepares the Faith Community Nurse to serve in this specialized ministry in complete Collaboration with the pastor of your Church. Course will be held on site at the Diocese of Fresno, Fresno Ca. Please register with the organizer of this event as noted below.
Find out more »South Carolina Faith Community Nurses Association Foundations Class
33 hour class. Registration includes 2 nights lodging, all meals, contact hour fees and course materials. Registration closes February 23, 2019.
Find out more »Day Retreat: The Spirituality and the Science of Self-Compassion
The Pittsburgh Mercy Parish Nurse & Health Ministry Program is a offering this Day Retreat to faith community nurses, health ministers, clergy, laypeople, and anyone interested in learning more about self-care practices. This retreat begins 8:00 a.m. with a continental breakfast, 9:00 a.m. opening session, simple lunch at noon, and closing prayer at 4:00 p.m. Cost is $55.00 and includes parking and meals. Participants are invited to a time of prayer, solitude, quiet reflection, learning and fellowship. It's time away…
Find out more »Foundations Course
Shenandoah University’s Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing’s Faith Community Nurse Certificate Program will offer Foundations of Faith Community Nursing in Spring of 2019. This offering is a Hybrid/ Online format. The Course will have a face to face meeting on March 15 from 9-4 pm and course will end June 15th. Current license as a Registered Nurse Clergy Reference Form Computer specifications and basic computer skills
Find out more »Faith Community Nursing Program
Online 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 (2014) 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 »Faith Community Nurses Foundations Course
Faith Community Nurses provide intentional care to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals and communities. This 8-week online course utilizes the 2014 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 successfully completing the course will be awarded 40 CEUs. This activity has been submitted to North Carolina Nurses Association…
Find out more »April 2019
Spring 2019 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Hybrid Format Course: April 5-6 / May 3-4, 2019
@ 7:45 am – 4:30 pm MST $400 Course based on the revised 2014 edition developed though the IPNRC and The Church Health Center through the Westberg Institute of Faith Community Nursing. This is a hybrid format course consisting of online modules and community assignments that compliment class time. Two hours of online module work must be completed prior the April scheduled class. The remaining 8 hours (online and class assignments) will be completed over the 3 week break between classes. Includes…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This online course implements the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing 2014 Revision designed by the Westberg Institute and based on the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice for Faith Community Nursing. The course will provide information to allow you to develop your FCN practice in a way that will be unique to you and your faith community. The course is self-paced and meets in a vibrant and interactive online learning environment. Western Kentucky University accepts registered nurses of all faith traditions…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
FCNN offers the International Parish Nurse Resource Center (IPNRC) certified course in an in-person 34.9 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. Visit www.fcnntc.org/education/foundations-course for more details.
Find out more »2019 Faith Community Nurse Research Forum (Sponsored by FCNI)
Sponsored by Faith Community Nurse International (FCNI) The FCNI RESEARCH FORUM will be held at the Westberg Symposium. It will be coordinated by FCNI’s Research Committee. Both the International Journal of Faith Community Nursing and the Journal of Christian Nursing will be there and present a recently published research article. Ann Solari-Twadell and Deborah Ziebarth will share about their upcoming book, Faith Community Nursing: An International Specialty Practice Changing the Understanding of Health, and facilitate an open discussion about how researchers can lend a…
Find out more »May 2019
Online Course: The Art of Listening (3 contact hours)
This is the first course in our series of online continuing education programs,”The Art of Listening: Healing Ourselves, Our Clients, Our Communities”. Elizabeth Andress, MA, will guide learners in improving their deep listening skills as faith community nurses. Learners will also 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. Course is posted at www.fcnntc.org. Contact…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Online Course
This online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course begins May 31 and runs through June 30, 2019. The course typically averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is offered in a modified asynchronous format so that participants can learn from discussion and interaction with one another, without having to be online at the same time. This course will help you start or improve your FCN practice, and is applicable to nurse from all faith traditions. Please call…
Find out more »June 2019
Online West Virginia University School of Nursing 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. School of Nursing faculty members Angel Smothers, DNP, APRN-BC, and Lois Harder, PhD, RN, will oversee and facilitate the courses.…
Find out more »Suicide & Drugs, How Can We Help?
Sponsored by: Central MN Faith Community Nurse Committee and CentraCare Health Education & Professional Development Department Purpose: Raising Suicide awareness in the Youth Population. Learn about a community collaborative model of drug prevention and ways faith communities can support recovery. Target Audience: FCN’s, Clergy, Deacons, Pastoral Ministers & Assistants, Youth Ministers, Chaplains, Befriender’s, Friends in Faith, faith community staff and members in ministry, Teachers, and others Registration Fee: $50 Registration Deadline: June 17, 2019 Cancellation Deadline: June 17, 2019 Contact…
Find out more »August 2019
FCN Foundation’s Course
We will be providing the new FCN Foundations course on Friday, August 2nd and Saturday, August 3rd and Friday, August 16th and Saturday, August 17th in Madison Wisconsin. 6082210383
Find out more »2019 Faith Community Nursing Foundation Curriculum
New 2019 Foundation Course for Faith Community Nurses, pinning service and 40 CEU and course certificate provided. Daily lunch and snacks included. The dates are: August 2,3,4,9,10, 11. Each 6-8 hour day is completely in person with many opportunities for sharing and personal spiritual growth. You must attend all sessions for course completion and CEUs.
Find out more »Online: Faith Community Nursing Course
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…
Find out more »Foundations Course
Faith Community Nursing Foundations course will be offered 6-9pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays, August 29 through October 8, 2019 (12 evening class sessions). This course is open to RN's with current license committed to promoting wholistic health. Also other allied health professionals or lay persons interested in serving under the direction of the clergy or Faith Community Nurse. Classes will be held at UnityPoint Health Trinity 2701 17th St. Rock Island, Illinois. Contact Linda Guebert MS, RN at 309-779-5122 for more…
Find out more »September 2019
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Online Course
Faith Community nursing is a specialized area of professional nursing practice focusing on the promotion of health and wellness within the context of the values, beliefs and practices of a faith community. “This Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course is based on the curriculum developed through the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing, which curriculum is owned by Church Health Center, Inc., 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 142, Memphis, TN 38104.”
Find out more »Basic Foundations Course for Faith Community Nursing
Faith Community Nurse Foundations Basic Course On Sight at Fresno Diocese Pastoral Center 1550 North Fresno St Fresno Ca. 93703
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
This online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course begins September 6th and runs through October 7th, 2019. The course typically averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is offered in a modified asynchronous format so that participants can learn from discussion and interaction with one another, without having to be online at the same time. This course will help you start or improve your FCN practice, and is applicable to nurse from all faith traditions. Please call…
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The course will be held at Calvin College over three weekends, Fridays 5:00 – 9:30 p.m. and Saturdays 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 9/6, 9/7 10/18, 10/19, 11/8 & 11/9 OR 1/10,1/11, 2/7, 2/8, 3/13 & 3/14. Participants must attend all six sessions in fall 2019 or spring 2020.
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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 2014 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 unemcumbered, active license. Participants should also have access to a computer, as all course activity is conducted through the use of a web-based learning management system.…
Find out more »Faith Community Nurse Curriculum Course – Online
This online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum course is based on the 2019 Westberg Institute curriculum. This ten-week course begins on September 9, 2019, and ends November 19, 2019. The entire course 36.5 hours will be delivered online with one to two modules be presented each week, about 4-5 hours of coursework. The course is offered in asynchronous format, which allows both flexibility and the opportunity for participants to share and learn from one another. For more information email…
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Hybrid of both classroom and online learning. Must attend ALL 4 dates, and complete ALL online requirements. Sept 9-10 and Nov 4-5, 2019. 0800-16:30.
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Hybrid FCN course (online with 3 in-person classes 9/27/19, 10/18/19, and11/1/19), 34 contact hours, $295 with discounted rates for congregational partners of Mount Carmel Health Systems
Find out more »University of Southern Indiana Faith Community Nursing Program
Online 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 (2014) 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 »Fall 2019 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing at Duet
Twice a year, Duet trains faith community nurses through the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course. The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines Faith Community Nursing (FCN) as “the specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as part of the process of promoting wholeistic health and preventing or minimizing illness in a faith community.” Duet’s Director of Congregational Health, April M. Polley, RN, BSN, MBA, is certified to teach this course and we are…
Find out more »Foundations of FCN Course 2019 Curriculum
If you have been hearing the call to connect health and faith by serving as a nurse in a church, this is the place to start! Through the Foundation of Faith Community Nurse course you will be trained to provide leadership in the area of whole person health in collaboration with the pastor, staff, and lay ministers of a faith community. In person retreat at Lake Poinsett, Arlington, SD, Sept 13-14. Monday evening sessions from anywhere via Skype. Taking applications…
Find out more »FCN Founations Course
Shenandoah University’s Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing’s Faith Community Nurse Certificate Program will offer Foundations of Faith Community Nursing in Fall 2019. This offering is a Hybrid/ Online format.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course 2019
The Pittsburgh Mercy Parish Nurse and Health Ministry staff offer this hybrid course with interactive onsite and online learning. The 4-day Course required attendance dates are the following: September 20 &21 and October 25 & 26, 2019. Location: UPMC Mercy Hospital, Sr. M. Ferdinand Clark Auditorium, 1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219. The is cost is $395.00 for registered nurses and includes 34 nursing CEs, continental breakfast, parking, and all curriculum materials. Apply early for $50 discount with application and…
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FCNN is accepting registrations for our in-person Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course! It will be held Monday-Friday, September 23 - 27 from 8:30AM - 5:00PM in St. Paul. Our experienced faculty of FCNs have vast knowledge of faith community nursing practice and represent an array of faith traditions. Over the course of the week, they will guide students in learning how to develop an FCN practice that meets the unique needs of their faith community. The interactive, small-group format…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community/Parish Nursing Course
This dynamic 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 session. Class dates are: September 27, 28 and October 25, 26, 2019. Participants will be awarded 38 ANCC contact hours for full participation. No partial credit will be awarded. Cost is $450 and includes continental breakfasts, lunches, snacks, resource materials, 38 ANCC contact hours, and the Westberg Institute stained glass pin. Scholarships…
Find out more »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 »October 2019
“Foundations of Faith Community Nursing” Educational Session
Catholic Health's faith Community Nurse Program and the Parish Nurse Ministries of NY, Inc. Have partnered to offer the "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). The course explores this specialty practice which combines professional nursing and health ministry. Developed from the Judeo-Christian perspective, this 2019 curriculum is respectful of, and can be applied to,…
Find out more »November 2019
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
This course is presented in a retreat style with time set aside for discussion and personal reflection. Modules from the curriculum may be taught in hybrid format, such as self-study or online presentation. Attendance is expected for the entire program unless other arrangements have been made ahead of time. 38 CNE's are available: Saint Alphonsus Health System is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Hybrid Course and Retreat
Hybrid Course approved for 34 contact hours. 7.5 hours of precourse work to be completed 2 wks prior to course attendance. This course equips an actively liscenced registered nurse to begin a specialized, professional whole person care practice in any faith community setting. Held at the Historic Oratory Center for Spirituality in Rockhill SC. The grounds of the Oratory support spiritual seekers from all denominations providing quiet space, for meditation, prayer and relaxation.
Find out more »Health Ministry Dinner Gathering 2019
This event provides continuing education, resources, and networking opportunities to individuals who are interested in starting or enhancing health ministries in their faith communities, as well as in the general public. Attendees will consider what is working and not working within their ministries, how they can acquire needed resources and volunteers, and community programs that may help care for people in need within their faith communities. This gathering is expected to draw parish and faith community nurses, registered nurses, licensed…
Find out more »January 2020
ONLINE – Foundations in Faith Community Nursing
January 7, 2020 - April 24, 2020 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…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Online
This online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course begins January 10th and runs through February11th, 2020. The course typically averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is offered in a modified asynchronous format so that participants can learn from discussion and interaction with one another, without having to be online at the same time. This course will help you start or improve your FCN practice, and is applicable to nurse from all faith traditions. Please call Monica…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Online Course
Faith Community nursing is a specialized area of professional nursing practice focusing on the promotion of health and wellness within the context of the values, beliefs and practices of a faith community. This online course utilizes the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing curriculum from the Westberg Institute.
Find out more »FCN Foundations Course
10 online sessions followed by 2 full days of on site training. Online starts 1/20/20 Onsite 3/27 and 3/28 in Cheyenne
Find out more »FCN Symposium: Thriving with Chronic Conditions
The Faith Community Nurse Network's symposiums feature relevant topics specific to FCN practice and provide attendees the opportunity to learn, share, and network. The topic for January 23 is "Thriving with Chronic Conditions". In this interactive presentation, Delores Huanca, RN, BS, MS, faith community nurse will walk attendees through the chronic illness journey, identify common challenges as well as coping skills and resources. Rachel von Ruden, LSW, Program Developer at Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging will share information on trends in Minnesota and…
Find out more »Lees-McRae College – 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 unemcumbered, active license. Participants should also have access to a computer, as all course activity is conducted through the use of a web-based learning management system.…
Find out more »February 2020
FCN Foundation Course
Hybrid FCN Foundation course offered through Augustana University and Avera to prepare RN's for the specialty of Faith Community Nursing.
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8 Week hybrid course including 3 in-person sessions; 34 contact hours.
Find out more »Hybrid Foundations of FCN Class May 2020
This class is 30 hours on site and 8 hours on line and is presented by the Faith Community Nurse Partnership of Central MN. It is two Thursdays and two Fridays, two weeks in a row. This schedule has been requested, as it allows working RN's to take the class and not miss as much work. Thursday May 7, 2 -9 p.m.; Friday May 8, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday May 14, 2-9 p.m.; Friday May 14, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. This…
Find out more »Hybrid Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course May 2020
This hybrid course is 30 hours on site and 8 hours on-line. Thursday, May 7, 2-9 p.m.; Friday, May 8, 8-4:30 p.m. Thursday May 14, 2-9 p.m.; Friday May 15, 8-4:30 p.m. Designed to meet the MN Board of Nursing continuing education requirements for 38 contact hours. Based on the updated 2019 Westberg institute for Faith Community Nursing curriculum. Includes guest presenters in several specialty areas such a mental health and spirituality, including chaplains, social workers, and clergy. Required for currently…
Find out more »March 2020
Foundations Basic Faith Community Nurse Course
Basic Foundations Faith Community Nurse Course Fresno Diocese, Fresno CA March 5-8, 2020 Pastoral Center
Find out more »Online FCN Foundations Course at Christian Brothers University Memphis
Christian Brother University Memphis Nursing is offering the FCN Foundations Course online at an inaugural tuition of $275, (regularly $375). The tuition covers the course, materials, 40 contact hours, and certificate. For more information and registration and information go to www.cbu.edu/fcn
Find out more »Spiritual Retreat 2020 – “Sacred Dance to the Rhythm of Life”
Do you need time away from family and other responsibilities? Do you need quiet time and spiritual refreshment? Do you desire to learn about your own spiritual needs and areas for healing? Then consider attending our Day Retreat on Saturday, March 7, 2020 at Martina Spiritual Renewal Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15229. We would love for you to join us! We are pleased to have Rev. Dr. Joan Prentice, M.Div., D.Min. as our retreat facilitator. She is the founder, executive…
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South Carolina Faith Community Nurses Association presents Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course Thursday, March 12 through Saturday March 14 ,2020; 9 am-6 pm …
Find out more »Foundations in 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 »Faith Community Nurse Foundations Course
Shenandoah University's School of Nursing is offering The Faith Community Foundations Course beginning March 13, 2020. This Course is a blended course with the first session being offered in Winchester, Va. on the beautiful Shenandoah University Campus with a kick off meeting. The entirety of the course will be offered online with the last session offered in person back on campus on or about June 15th. This session will include a dedication ceremony with your family and guests to celebrate…
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.
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Vincennes University, in cooperation with Memorial Hospital and Healthcare Center is pleased to offer a growing specialty practice of nursing recognized by the American Nursing Association as Faith Community Nursing. This non-credentialing course is designed to introduce and prepare registered nurses for the specialty practice of faith community nursing. This 36-hour noncredit course is designed to introduce and prepare registered nurses for the specialty practice of faith community nursing. Faith community nurses are licensed, registered nurses who practice wholistic health…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course
Learn the scope of practice for Faith Community Nursing with a focus on the intentional care of the spiritual, physical, mental and emotional needs of individuals and communities. This two-weekend 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. CEU credit provided through St. Mary's Medical Center.
Find out more »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/.
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Six session preparation course for new parish nurses
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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…
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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…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing (Asynchronous)
This online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course begins January 8th and runs through February 8th, 2021. Based on the Westberg 2019 Foundations update, the course typically averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is offered in an asynchronous format so that participants can learn from discussion and interaction with one another, without having to be online at the same time. This course will help you start or improve your FCN practice, and is applicable to nurses…
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 Faith Community Nursing Foundations Course
Do you have a calling to use your nursing gifts to serve your faith community? Faith Community Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on whole-person health by integrating the care of mind, body, and spirit. Join us for this blended course offered to registered nurses of all faiths who want to pursue the specialized practice of faith community nursing. Gain understanding of the dynamic relationship between well being & spirituality. Learn knowledge and skills to build and…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing-ONLINE
Faith Community nursing is a specialized area of professional nursing practice focusing on the promotion of health and wellness within the context of the values, beliefs and practices of a faith community. The target audience is professional nurses who are spiritually mature with effective communication skills. Current licensure as a registered professional nurse is required. The course is 100% online via Canvas Learning Management System.
Find out more »February 2021
Faith Community Nurse Foundations Course
Shenandoah University’s Eleanor Wade Custer School of Nursing’s Faith Community Nurse Certificate Program will offer Foundations of Faith Community Nursing in Spring of 2021. This offering is an Online format. DATES: Running from Feb 5 to April 17, 2021. There will be two (2) Zoom sessions in the beginning of the course (Feb 5) and at the end of the course (April 17). The rest of the course will be completed Online. COST: $400 plus manual. CEs: Earn 36.5 contact…
Find out more »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 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. The course is offered online and provides students to attend a face-to-face educational session (optional) with School of Nursing faculty in…
Find out more »Transitional Care for Faith Community Nurses
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 Program through the Westberg Institute. 15 contact hours are being provided by the West Virginia…
Find out more »ONLINE – Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Registered nurses of all faiths are invited to attend the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing training course being hosted by Carle Faith Community Health. The course will begin February 22, 2021 with individual self-paced study and combined with virtual classroom sessions on March 05, 2021 (5:30pm - 9:30pm CST), March 06, 2021 (09:00am - 4:00pm CST), April 09, 2021 (5:30pm - 9:30pm CST), and April 10, 2021 (09:00am - 4:00pm CST). The cost for this course including textbook is $125.00.
Find out more »March 2021
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Update Course at West Virginia University
This course is designed for nurses who have previously completed the full Foundations of Faith Coimmuntiy Nursing Course, and who are looking to reconnect and have access to the updated curriculum. This will be a 4 week, all online course. WVU School of Nursing faculty members Angel Smothers, DNP, APRN-BC, will oversee and facilitate the courses. 21 continuing professional development hours is being provided by the West Virginia University School of Nursing. The West Virginia University School of Nursing is…
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Foundations Faith Community Nursing Couse: 32 hours for Continuing Education Units for RNs In Fresno, California at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing (Asynchronous)
This online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course, based on the Westberg Institute curriculum (2019 revision), begins March 5 and runs through April 5, 2021. The course typically averages about 10 hours of coursework per week. The course is offered in a modified asynchronous format so that participants can learn from discussion and interaction with each other without having to be online at the same time. This course will help you start or improve your faith community nursing (FCN) practice,…
Find out more »Hybrid Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course focuses on applying the nursing process in a leadership role of health ministry in a community of faith. This course examines the four major concepts of Faith Community Nursing: spirituality, professionalism, ‘wholistic’ health, and community and cultural diversity. A 5-week, blended course, it is based on the Westberg 2019 Foundations update and once trained, will offer nurses a forum to combine their professional practice with their spiritual insights within a faith community. Upon…
Find out more »Health Ministry Prayer Gatherings 2021 – Virtual Candle Meditations
The Pittsburgh Mercy Parish Nurse & Health Ministry Program is hosting a Virtual Prayer Gathering at the beginning of every new season. Do you need a sacred space and time set-aside for peace and quiet reflection during this challenging time in our world? Do you desire to give to your family and others, but could use some extra encouragement and support? Do you want to learn more about self-compassion? Do you need to connect with others in prayer and contemplation?…
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 »Faith Community Nursing Foundations Course (Western Kentucky University)
Online Faith Community Nursing Foundations Course offered by Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The course is online.
Find out more »Health Ministry Virtual Meetings… Peer Support, Learning & Conversation
The Pittsburgh Mercy Parish Nurse & Health Ministry Program is offering "Health Ministry Virtual Meetings... Peer Support, Learning & Conversation" the 3rd Tuesday evening of every month 7:00 p.m. ET. The goal is to emphasize the importance of networking, fellowship, learning and peer support for faith community nurses, health ministers and anyone interested as they assist their congregations and local community to better health and well-being. Content discussion includes focusing on the intentional care of the spirit, the promotion of…
Find out more »Saint Anselm College 21st Annual Parish Nurse Conference
"Parish Nursing & Health Ministry Conference: "Ministry Makeover: What Shape Will Your Ministry Take in Today's Society?" Thursday, March 18, 2021 from 8:30-2:30pm, Eastern Time as a live virtual webinar - no travel needed! Keynote: Deborah Rivard, MSN, MEd, RN-BC, System Director for Faith Community Nursing, St. Anthony's Hospital, BayCare Health System, St. Petersburg, FL. Questions? Amy Guthrie, MS, RN, Director, Continuing Nursing Education at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH at 603-641-7083 or $99 for 5.25 contact hours…
Find out more »April 2021
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Duet: Partners in Health and Aging ® Congregational Health Services is proud to present our Virtual Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course. 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 the wider community (groups, families, persons). This course is based on…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
The Faith Community Nurse Network welcomes you to our virtual Foundations Course to be held 9 a.m-4 p.m. April 8-9, April 20-21, and April 29-30, 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. “I was amazed at what this course has meant to me. I never expected it to be a defining moment in my spiritual experience and…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Mercy Care for the Adirondacks will offer the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course in Ogdensburg, NY on April 9 & 10, April 6 & 17, April 30 and May 1, 2021. This course is based on the Westberg Institute 2019 curriculum. It is an in-person course limited to a small number of participants. Social distancing and face coverings are required.
Find out more »Health Ministries Network Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Health Ministries Network (HMN) is offering two hybrid on-line and zoom conference courses --a Faith Community Nursing Foundations Course for active and retired nurses and a parallel Health Ministry Foundations Course for laypersons in faith communities. HMN Foundations Courses provide the program elements for launching a community health ministry with an emphasis on holistic health. The courses are open to all religions, faiths and beliefs.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course
Faith Community Nursing 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 Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course offered by Hoag Health Ministries. Upon completion of this course you will be equipped…
Find out more »Virtual Spiritual Day Retreat 2021
The Pittsburgh Mercy Parish Nurse & Health Ministry Program is offering a Virtual Day Retreat on Saturday, April 17, 2021. We welcome all... it's open to anyone interested. The opening session begins at 10:00 a.m. ET and the retreat ends by 3:00 p.m. A lunch break is included in the agenda. The theme is titled "From Darkness into Light: Encountering the Heart of Christ" which is based on the spiritual exercises in Putting on the Heart of Christ by G.…
Find out more »Continuing Education Symposium: Emergency Preparedness
The Faith Community Nurse Network of the greater Twin Cities provides at least four professional nursing education symposiums each year for contact hour credit. These programs feature perspectives specific to FCN practice and provide attendees the opportunity to learn, share, and network. Virtual programs take place on Zoom and allow FCNs across Minnesota – and beyond – to gather and connect. 2021 Symposium Details Program Times: 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM (CST) Online, via Zoom This activity will be awarded…
Find out more »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 »Advanced Spiritual Care Course
The Advanced Spiritual Care Course is designed to provide nurses with advanced knowledge and skill when providing spiritual care to their patients. This is a 4 week all online course and has been approved for 20 hours of continuing nursing professional development. There are 4 learning module that include a mixture of articles, online resources, PowerPoint notes and recorded presentations. Students will interact with each other and faculty using the online discussion area. There will be an optional live zoom…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing (Asynchronous)
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…
Find out more »FCN Virtual Foundations Course
St Cloud, Minnesota Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Virtual Course. May 20 and 27 from 2-8 pm CST. May 21 and 28 from 8am-4:30 pm CST. Online hours also to include 36.5 contact hours. For currently licensed RNs who want to practice as Faith Community Nurses. Please contact document.getElementById("eeb-328512-3898").innerHTML = eval(decodeURIComponent("%27%42%65%74%68%61%6e%79%2e%74%6f%6c%6c%65%66%73%6f%6e%40%63%65%6e%74%72%61%63%61%72%65%2e%63%6f%6d%27"))*protected email*" data-auth="NotApplicable">document.getElementById("eeb-796394-309005").innerHTML = eval(decodeURIComponent("%27%42%65%74%68%61%6e%79%2e%74%6f%6c%6c%65%66%73%6f%6e%40%63%65%6e%74%72%61%63%61%72%65%2e%63%6f%6d%27"))*protected email* or visit Faith Community Nursing | CentraCare Spiritual Care for more information. Scholarships available for those in the service area. The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course is…
Find out more »June 2021
Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Hoag Health Ministries - Faith Community Nursing is offering a 5-day Foundations of Faith Nursing Course via Zoom. Join the popular southern CA based class, now being offered for the 14th time. All faiths are welcome. Please see the flyer for more details!
Find out more »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 Nursing
The Parish Nurse Ministry Program of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN is offering a Foundations of Faith Community Nursing/Parish Nursing course June 7-11, 2021 (the deadline to register is May 21, 2021 ) at First Lutheran Church in Fargo, ND. The program is open to registered nurses interested in starting health and healing ministries. The program topics include: role of the faith community nurse, spiritual care and prayer, integrating faith and health, and caring for those experiencing issues across the…
Find out more »Grief and Loss in Complicated Times Workshop
Virtual Workshop on June 8th from 0800-1200. Continuing Education Hours available. Please see flyer for all details and registration information.
Find out more »Symposium: Food as Medicine
Join the Faith Community Nurse Network of the Greater Twin Cities for a virtual symposium on "Food as Medicine. Our symposiums are designed by and for faith community nurses, though all are welcome. June 17, 2021 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Central)via ZoomPresented by: Brenna Thompson MS, RD, LDN 3.0 contact hours (This activity has been designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements. However, participants are responsible for determining whether this activity meets the requirements for…
Find out more »July 2021
Health Ministry Prayer Gatherings 2021
Do you need a sacred space and time set-aside for peace and quiet reflection? Do you desire to give to your family and others, but could use some extra encouragement and support? Do you want to learn more about self-compassion? Do you have a need to connect with others in prayer and contemplation? Do you want to experience spiritual awareness and spiritual care in a virtual setting? If you answered "yes" to at least one questions, then we have the…
Find out more »Online Foundations of Faith Community Nursing (Asynchronous)
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…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Update Course at West Virginia University
The West Virginia University School of Nursing offers a Faith Community Nursing Update course for individuals who have previously taken the full Foundations of Faith Community nursing course. This course is designed to provide nurses who have taken the full course in the past, with access to the new evidence-based curriculum. The nationally recognized faith community nursing course is also open to individuals who work as chaplains, pastors, social workers and others. However, only RNs who complete the course can…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course- Hybrid Webinar and 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: Five webinar classroom dates together with 6 weeks on on-line learning All virtual and on-line learning components are required for successful completion of the course Virtual Classroom Learning Course Orientation Tuesday, July 6, from 6:30 p.m. -…
Find out more »August 2021
Transitional Care for Faith Community Nurses
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 Program through the Westberg Institute.
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 (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 »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 »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
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/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 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 Nursing Online in German
Online Course following the International Curriculum rewiesed 2019
Find out more »Symposium: Culturally Congruent FCN Practice
Join the Faith Community Nurse Network of the Greater Twin Cities for a virtual symposium on “Culturally Congruent FCN Practice". Our symposiums are designed by and for faith community nurses, though all are welcome. October 21, 2021 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Central)via Zoom3.0 contact hours (This activity has been designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements. However, participants are responsible for determining whether this activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education credit.) Lorie Hacker…
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 »November 2021
Integrating Spirituality in Today’s Healthcare Conference
Delivering healing and compassionate care for the whole person (body, mind and spirit) remains the primary mission of medicine and health care. Evidence shows there is a profound relationship between a patient’s spiritual life and their experience at the time of illness. Research demonstrates improved patient outcomes when spirituality is incorporated into medical practice. Many health care providers simply do not have the comfort level, specific tools, and skills needed to incorporate spirituality into the hectic pace of modern-day healthcare…
Find out more »Integrating Spirituality in Today’s Healthcare Conference
This conference will provide the knowledge, skills and tools for addressing patients' spiritual needs in any health care setting. This event is great for health care professionals, student, providers, chaplains and clergy. Continuing Education Units are available for some professionals conference attendees. See website for more information or to register for the conference. This conference is planned to be offered in person and virtual.
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course via Zoom: November 15-16 and 29-30, December 13-14, 2021
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 a bridge between the health care system and faith…
Find out more »December 2021
Matter of Balance Virtual Training
Register here: https://form.jotform.com/fcnntc/mob-leader-training-virtual A Matter of Balance is an award-winning program designed for older adults to manage falls and increase activity levels. Two trained coaches guide participants through learning and activities that emphasize strategies to reduce fear of falling and increase activity levels among older adults. Participants show improved balance, flexibility and strength while viewing falls as controllable.
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