Week 4
Chapter 15 Health Ministries: Health and Faith Communities
Development of Health Ministries
History of ministering: hospitals, hospitality, and religious communities
Nightingale’s legacy: relationship of nursing to early models
Philosophical underpinnings
Health Ministry in Action
The faith community
Models of health ministry
Congregational health partnership
Structure of health ministries
Assets mapping
Relationship Between Community Health Nursing and Faith Communities
Parish nursing
Activities of parish nursing
Missionary nursing
Roles and practice of missionary nurses
Missionary Nursing
Roles
Practices
Clinical examples
Spirituality and Religion
Differences and similarities
Population-focused spiritual care
Barriers to providing spiritual care
Morals, ethics, and spirituality in health care
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and spirituality
Praying and rituals with patient populations