Disciplines and Occupations

Parish Nursing

A nursing specialty involving programs designed to bring wholeness and healing to a particular faith community through addressing the health needs of body, mind, and spirit. They are coordinated by registered NURSES and may involve HEALTH EDUCATION and counseling, facilitation, referral, PATIENT ADVOCACY, and health care plan interpretation, as influenced and defined by the unique needs of the congregation.

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Abstract

A nursing specialty involving programs designed to bring wholeness and healing to a particular faith community through addressing the health needs of body, mind, and spirit. They are coordinated by registered NURSES and may involve HEALTH EDUCATION and counseling, facilitation, referral, PATIENT ADVOCACY, and health care plan interpretation, as influenced and defined by the unique needs of the congregation.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Church Nursing
  • Faith Community Nursing
  • Nursing, Church
  • Nursing, Faith Community
  • Nursing, Parish

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11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2014

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Previous Indexing

  • Community Health Nursing (1992-2013)
  • Religion and Medicine (1972-2013)

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WY 86.5

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Parish Nursing. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D064698. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D064698
  2. Parish Nursing. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_community_nursing
  3. Parish Nursing. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5431255