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Parish Nursing is a unique, specialized practice of professional nursing, which
focuses on the promotion of health and wholeness within the context of
the values, beliefs and practices of a faith community. The Parish Nurse functions
as:
* Health educator promoting wellness
* Health counselor advocating personal responsibility
* Teacher and coordinator of volunteers
* Liaison with community resources
* Integrator of faith and health
This is a 35 hour interactive Internet program that will support continued growth in the knowledge, attitudes and skills central to the parish nurse role. Participants will learn from experienced parish nurses, nursing faculty, and other content experts about the various functions of the parish nurse. The curriculum of this program is the standardized core curricula developed through the International Parish Nurse Resource Center, in consultation with the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) Credentialing Center.
Instruction will include the following content:
· Health and Healing in the Faith Community
· Functions of the Parish Nurse
· Assessing the Needs of the Congregation
· Legal and Ethical Considerations for Parish Nursing
· Providing Spiritual Care as a Parish Nurse
· Getting Started as a Parish Nurse
At the close of the program, the participant will:
* Demonstrate knowledge, attitude, and skills central to practice as a beginning
parish nurse.
* Embrace the integration of faith and health as integral to the parish nurse
role.
* Identify a network for continuing development and support in the parish nurse
role.
* Identify ways to nurture personal spiritual development.
* Identify essential steps in creating a beginning parish nurse practice.
A member of the National Advisory Board will be available to answer your most challenging patient management issue during the course.
This 6 week course is offered twice a year.
Offerings for 2008: March 10 (registration ends 03/03/08) and September 22 (registration ends 09/15/08).
Call toll free
1-877-USI-HLTH (1-877-874-4584) or 812-461-5217
or e-mail parishrn@usi.edu
$500
Fee includes Internet instruction and handouts.
The textbook is not included in the cost of the program.
Textbooks needed include:
1. Faith Community Nursing by Janet Hickman
2. Faith Community Nursing: Scope and Standards of
Practice.
Health Ministries Association, Inc & American Nurses Association. Pub
# 05SSF.
Order this book from Nursesbooks.org, 800-637-0323
3. The Parish Nurse by Granger Westber, DD
This book is optional and can be ordered from Eden Bookstore, 1-877-627-5653
A $25 administrative fee will be charged up to two weeks before
the start date.
From two weeks before the class through the day before the start date, a $75
fee will be charged.
On the start date of the class there will be no refund.
Call toll free 1-877-USI-HLTH
(1-877-874-4584)
A combination of delivery methods are used to facilitate learner and faculty communication including:
Provides on-line instructor-prepared materials and course assignments. Internet resources are used as an integral part of the instruction.
Allows learners to interact with faculty and other course participants.
Allows learners to freely interact on an individual or group level with other learners and faculty.
Faculty will be available by telephone to assist learners.
Participants will need a computer with Internet access. They will also need an e-mail account. For optimum performance it is recommended that at a minimum the computer be a 486 50 Mhz or higher with 16 MB of RAM, 200 MB hard disk space, Super VGA monitor and card with a minimum of 2 MB of RAM; and a modem speed of 28,800 or higher.
Cyndee Burton, RN
Nadine Coudret, EdD, RN
Mary Beth Davis, RN
Renee Dugger, MSN, RN
Peggy Graul, MSN, RN
Judith Halstead, DNS, RN
Roberta Hoebeke, PhD, FNP, APRN, BC
Susan Latham, RN
Victoria Pigott, MSN, RN
Julie St. Clair, MSN, RN
Mary Titzer, MSN, RN
Mary Ann Wehmer, MSN, RN, CNOR
The program has six modules. Learners interact with practitioners and faculty who are expert in the area of parish nursing.
The convenience of on-line instruction allows the participant to "attend" class at any hour or day of the week during the 6 week period. Participants will learn from experts in the area of parish nursing and have the opportunity to network with other course participants from across the country. Internet instruction provides an opportunity for personal interaction with course faculty while providing the comfort of learning in your own home or office.
A Continuing Education Certificate will be awarded following successful completion of study guide questions, an online comprehensive examination, and submission of a course evaluation.
Nurses will receive 35 contact hours.
The University of Southern Indiana College of Nursing and Health Professions, Evansville, is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Indiana State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
California nurses will receive 35 contact hours.
The University of Southern Indiana is approved by the
California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider #13378.
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