Why Would Health Care Systems Benefit From Developing & Supporting a Parish Nursing Program?
• Many health care leaders have personal faith-based value systems. • Parish nursing is an expression of faith-based missions & visions. • Parish nursing provides collaborative, innovative, cost-effective partnership opportunities and affirmative relationships with the grass roots community echelon. • Parish nursing role models a system attitude of caring and whole person concern. • Parish nursing reclaims a historical and presently needed partnership in health care. • Parish nursing visibly reintegrates the faith factor in health care which is powerfully affirmed by contemporary research. • Parish nursing is healing the consequences of significant community wide disillusionments with Health Care. • Health care is more than medicine. Health care must be spirit-centered and whole person focused. Faith plays a significant role in whole person well being.