Main description:

A multi-authored book, with editors and authors who are leaders in Faith Community Nursing (FCN) that aims to address contemporary issues in faith-based, whole person, community based health offering cost effective, accessible, patient centered care along the patient continuum while challenging contemporary health policy to include more health promotion services.

Twenty-five chapters take the reader from a foundational understanding of this historic grass-roots movement to the present day international specialty nursing practice. The book is structured into five sections that describe both the historical advancement of the Faith Community Nursing, its current implications and future challenges, taking into account the perspectives of the pastor, congregation, nurse, health care system and public health national and international organizations.

The benefits of this book are that it is intended for a mixed audience including lay, academic, medical professionals or health care executives. By changing the mindset of the reader to see the nurse as more than providing illness care, the faith community as more than a place one goes to on Sunday and health as more than physical, creative alternatives for promoting health emerge through Faith Community Nursing.

Contents:

Foreword
Mary Wakefield

Prologue: Context-Global from the beginning

Section I. Changing the Understanding of Health: The contribution of Faith Community Nursing

Chapter 1. Faith Community Nursing: A Professional Specialty Practice
Susan Chase
Ann Solari-Twadell

Chapter 2. Faith Community Nursing: As Health Ministry
Sharon Hinton
Annette Langdon

Chapter 3. Wholistic & Holistic Nursing Practice Framework Applications for Faith Community Nursing
Deborah Ziebarth
Ann Solari-Twadell

Chapter 4. Advancing the Science of Faith Community Nursing
Deborah Ziebarth Ann Solari-Twadell

Section II. Changing the Understanding of Health: Education and Faith Community Nursing

Chapter 5. Standardization of Educational Preparation of Faith Community Nurses: Applications within Nations
Susan Jacobs
Ann Solari-Twadell

Chapter 6. Ongoing Continuing Education and Formation for Faith Community Nurses
Donna Callaghan
Judy Shackelford

Chapter 7. Documenting Models of Faith Community Nursing: Educational Perspectives
Ann Solari-Twadell
Ameldia Brown

Chapter 8. Utilizing Formalized Education: Advanced Practice Nurse as a Faith Community Nurse
Katherine Dykes
Felicia Stewart

Section III. Changing the Understanding of Health: Faith Community Nursing Development

Chapter 9. From the Perspective of the Pastor and Congregation
Rev Helen Wordsworth

Chapter 10. From the Perspective of the Faith Community Nurse
Kathy Blanchfield
Faith Roberts

Chapter 11. From the Perspective of the Physician
Scott Morris

Chapter 12. From the Perspective of the Health Care System
Karla Zilinski
Lois Ustanko

Chapter 13. From the Perspective of the Public Health Department
Wendy Zimmerman
Jennifer Cooper

Section IV. Changing the Understanding of Health: Professional Organizational Perspectives

Chapter 14. Historical Perspective of Organizational Development and Faith Community Nursing
Lisa Zurell
Ann Solari-Twadell

Chapter 15. The Westberg Institute: An Evolution of the International Parish Nurse Resource Center
Ann Solari-Twadell
Maureen Daniels

Chapter 16. The Health Ministry Association
Marlene Feagen
Allie Briese

Chapter 17. Faith Community Nurses International
Andy West
Beverly Siegrist

Chapter 18. ANA State and Regional Faith Community Nursing Organizations
Deborah Ziebarth
Ann Solari-Twadell

Section V. Changing the Health of Nations: Issues and Trends in Faith Community Nursing

Chapter 19. Documentation and Storage of Records
Deborah Ziebarth
Ann Solari-Twadell

Chapter 20. Long Term Sustainability of Faith Community Nursing Programs
Ann Solari-Twadell
Deborah Ziebarth

Chapter 21. Promoting Inner Strength in Faith Community Nurses and Faith Communities

Gayle Roux

Catherine Dingley

Chapter 22. Transitional Care

Deborah Ziebarth

Chapter 23. Integration of Faith Community Nursing into Health Care Systems and Reform
Ameldia Brown Ann Solari-Twadell

Chapter 24. Prevention and Faith Community Nursing
Angela Glasser
Dia Campbell Dexhtrine

Chapter 25. Research Agenda in Faith Community Nursing
Ann Solari-Twadell & Deborah Ziebarth

Epilogue