Community Involvement
Faith Community Nurse Program
By integrating body, mind and spirit, faith community nursing creates
an opportunity for intervention that can lead to prevention, wellness
and more effective coping strategies for dealing with a diagnosed disease.
Since 1993, the Holy Cross Hospital Faith Community Nurse Program has
assisted faith community nurses and health ministry teams in educating,
empowering and equipping members of their faith communities in the pursuit
of health, healing and wholeness.
More than 50 faith communities partner with our Faith Community Nurse
Program. These congregations are diverse in denomination, size, race and
ethnicity. We assist each congregation in developing their unique vision
for health and wellness and we provide support for implementing and sustaining
that vision.
Faith community nursing programs include health education programs, preventive
screening, chronic disease management education, wellness counseling,
patient advocacy, resource referral, support group development, services
and prayers for healing, and home and hospital visitation programs.
As a local, regional and national model, our Faith Community Nurse Program
offers members educational conferences, networking meetings, a newsletter,
regular emails, and a spirituality and health lending library.
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To
learn more about how to develop a Faith Community Nurse Program
in your community, please contact Carmella Jones, RN, director,
at 301.754.7066 or JonessC@holycrosshealth.org. |
Partners in Health Newsletter
The Faith Community Nurse Program
of Holy Cross Hospital offers Partners
in Health, a complementary newsletter designed to assist faith
community nurses and health ministry teams in educating, empowering
and equipping members of their faith communities in pursuit of health,
healing and wholeness.