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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 »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 »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…
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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8 week hybrid course with 3 in person sessions; 34 contact hours
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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 »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 »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 »Virtual Foundations of Faith Community Nurse Course 2020 – Preparation for FCNs and Health Ministers
The Pittsburgh Mercy Parish Nurse & Health Ministry Program offers this hybrid course with interactive virtual and online learning. The 5-day Course required attendance dates are the following: October 2, 3, 17, 23, and 24 (Fridays & Saturdays). All Location: Zoom meetings from your own home or workplace. All day sessions from 8:15 am to 4:15 pm; includes a 45-minute lunch, and two 15-minute breaks. The cost is $395.00 for registered nurses and includes 39.25 nursing CEs, textbook, memory stick,…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Course (online; Zoom) (This is a 6-day course, meeting every other week on Mondays and Tuesdays, starting 10/19/2020)
Limited seats left at the grant-supported cost of $166. Once that quota is full, cost will return to $499. Our hearts suffer when we see others suffer. How do we help? Our health system is based on a curative model, and although pockets of the country are coming up with creative ways to bring health care to our most vulnerable, this is the exception, not the norm. Faith community nurses are increasingly stepping in to bridge that gap. What is…
Find out more »Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Class November 2020 St. Cloud MN
Foundations of FCN class in St. Cloud, MN. 2020 May Foundations Course Cancelled Next Foundations Course is November 12, 13, 19, 20, 2020 30 Onsite Contact Hours and 8 Online Hours. Learning Outcome: Understand the role and function of the Faith Community Nurse This course is required for currently licensed RN's who want to practice as Faith Community Nurses, and also provides all RN's with the skills to enhance their practice by integrating spiritual care.
Find out more »Health Ministry Prayer Breakfast 2020 – November 21, Saturday
The Pittsburgh Mercy Parish Nurse & Health Ministry Program is inviting you and a friend to attend our Health Ministry Prayer Breakfast 2020 on Saturday, November 21, 2020 @ UPMC Mercy Hospital. 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…
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