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spiritual services
Parish Nurse functions:
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The functions of the Parish Nurse are:
- Counselor – Parish Nurses provide personal and
confidential counseling regarding health concerns, and they make home,
hospital or nursing home visits whenever needed. They encourage
clients to participate in their own health care decisions,
offering suggestions on modifying life styles and linking personal
habits of faith and health.
- Health Educator – Parish Nurses offer education in
various ways: health education programs, articles in their faith
community’s weekly bulletins and monthly newsletters, literature
racks and support groups. They also offer diet and exercise
classes, health fairs and screenings.
- Health Advocate – The Parish Nurse works with the
client, faith community and primary health resources to provide
the best care to the client, and is their voice when
they seem to have none.
- Resource Agent – Parish Nurses serve as a liaison by
making the appropriate referrals to community, hospital and faith
community resources when the assessed faith/health care needs are
beyond the scope and practice of the parish nurse.
- Coordinator of Volunteers – Parish Nurses recruit and
train volunteers to assist with programs and client care.
- Developer of Support Groups – Parish nurses assess the
needs of the faith community and when appropriate assist to
establish needed groups for support.
- Integrator of Faith and Health – Assesses the needs of
the human spirit within the presenting health concern and
incorporates the client’s values, beliefs and practices into the
plan of care focusing on whole person health; body, mind and
spirit.
You may contact us at
ParishNurse@LeeMemorial.org |
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