Sharing is therapeutic. Parish nurses help people to realize that congregational membership and faith are health strengthening. Many health care leaders have personal faith-based value systems. Parish nursing provides collaborative, innovative, cost-effective partnership opportunities and affirmative relationships with the grass roots community echelon. Parish nursing role models a system attitude of caring and whole person concern.
Parish nursing reclaims a historical and presently needed partnership in health care.
Parish nursing visibly reintegrates the faith factor in health care which is powerfully affirmed by contemporary research. Parish nursing is healing the consequences of significant community wide disillusionments with Health Care. Health care is more than medicine. Health care must be spirit-centered and whole person focused. Faith plays a significant role in whole person wellbeing.