Parish nursing is caring for wholeness — mind, body, and spirit — by combining the knowledge and skills of nursing practice with the spiritual and religious tenets that underlie our health. The focus is to keep the congregation well by offering care when there is disease and disability. Health ministry focuses on outcomes of the congregation’s work of bringing health and healing to the community. The mission is to promote health ministry/parish nursing in the Episcopal Church. We believe that spirituality is a health issue, and health is a spirituality issue.

There are certified parish nurses in fifteen churches of our diocese. Their activities include monthly blood pressure monitoring, health fairs, blood drives, flu clinics, health counseling, visiting church members who are homebound and in the hospital, healing services and prayer, and grief counseling. No two parish-nurse ministries are alike; it all depends on location and demographic needs of the congregation.

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TBA