Church Partnership Newsletter September 2014 | Page 2

Foundations of Faith Community Nursing
Do you want to start or expand a health ministry in your faith community? Are you looking to integrate
spirituality into your nursing practice? Would you like to learn the skills to deliver whole person (body, mind,
and spirit) care? The Foundations of Faith Community Nursing course is a nationally endorsed curriculum
from the International Parish Resource Center. Faith Community Nursing is recognized by the American
Nursing Association as a specialty practice of professional nursing.Faith Community Nursing.
A Faith Community Nurse (FCN) may serve as a paid or unpaid member of a congregation’s staff
while working within their faith community to establish or sustain a health ministry program. With the
intentional focus of spiritual health, a FCN uses nursing interventions of education, advocacy, referral,
resources, and coordination to provide health promotion, health education, and disease prevention.

Course Objectives
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Integrate faith and health as central to the FCN role
Demonstrate knowledge, attitude, and skills to practice as beginning
FCN
Identify a Health Ministry network of continuing development and
support including an inter-collegial peer system of support
Identify core concepts of spiritual formation, professionalism, health
and wholeness, community, and incorporating culture and diversity
in FCN

Details
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34 contact hours
Must be a licensed Registered Nurse
Oct. 24, 25 and Nov. 7, 8, 2014
8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Attendance for entire program required
Held at Mount Carmel College of Nursing, 127 S. Davis Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43222
$395; reduced rate of $300 for current employees of Mount Carmel Health System, alumni of Mount
Carmel College of Nursing, and congregational partners of Church Partnerships
Reduced hotel rates of $68 per night available at Drury Inn Convention Center – Columbus; parking and
breakfast free

Course Modules
Spirituality
• History and Philosophy of FCN
• Prayer
• Self-Care
• Healing and Wholeness
Community
• Assessment
• Accessing Resources
• Advocacy
• Care Coordination
Contact Kate for more information.

Professionalism
• Ethical Issues
• Documenting Practice
• Legal Aspects
• Beginning Your Ministry
• Communication and Collaboration
Wholistic Health
• Health Promotion
• Transforming Life Issues: Family Violence,
Mental Health, and Suffering, Grief and Loss