The American Nurses Association ( Ana ) And Health Ministries Association

As a nursing student, this assignment helped the author realize how important it is to understand a patient’s spirituality. The author believes that nurses should assess the spiritual values of patients in order to understand what the patient and family is going through in terms of how they view their health, illness, and expectations from healthcare staff. Nurses should remain

Furthermore, ANA recognized the Health Ministries Association (HMA) as a membership organization that brought together all the faith community nurses in the United States. Later in 1998, HMA's Scope and Standards of Parish Nursing Practice were published and revised in 2005. Other than spiritual health, the FCN predominantly uses interventions of counseling, education, active listening, referral, advocacy, and prayer. However, spiritual care varies from one parish to another depending on the faith community practices and beliefs. Breisch et al. (2013) have acknowledged that advocating for suitable levels of care for vulnerable populations, individuals with healthcare resources access limitations, and healthcare consumers with low-literacy skills are some of the aspects that community nursing should support. FCNs roles include initiating referrals for clinical treatment, assisting in acquiring home care resources, helping with extended care arrangements and supporting healthcare consumers to have access to provider appointments, consequently enhancing health literacy. The FCN perceives the whole faith community and churches as healthcare consumer (Breisch et al., 2013). Faith community nurses participate in the promotion of community awareness related to significant health issues, in addition to developing community collaborations for health

Currently, the local church for which this DNP student is to develop the DNP project lacks an FCN, who can provide healthcare services to the church senior’s citizen center, located in the southeast region of the United States (US). According to the director of the church senior’s citizen center, there is an urgent need for FCN. FCN, in this case, can play an integral role by linking faith and health (Van Dover & Pfeiffer, 2011). For example, the ANA and HMA (2012) acknowledged that FCNs promote, and optimize health and abilities, aid in the prevention of injury and illness, and help parishioners in suffering. FCN in this context can enhance better health practices and values of a faith community at the church senior’s citizen center.

Based on my personal research and reflection, I have identified American Public Health Association, an association of public health professionals in the United States and other professionals from health related fields. This association comprise of environmentalists, nurses, doctors, dentists and many other professionals. However, there is more clarity about nurses in the public sector. The American Association of nurses is one of the largest groups registered by APHA. I therefore, choose nurses as a group of public health professionals to research on. Nurses in the public health sector are known to be people focused as well as community development oriented. Historically speaking, the American Association of Nurses has witnessed several changes in their current operations in comparison to earlier operations. Thatcher, (2012) asserted that “Earlier nurses were focused more on community organizations, population orientation as well as health promotions”. The community and population were the main partners to the association of the earlier nurses. Much emphasis was put on health promotion and prevention measures for various diseases. Community health care and health equity were also given priority by the American Nursing Association (ANA).

Nurse leaders can partner with the local government, churches, schools and community groups to create programs that reduce health disparities. For example, a program geared towards promoting wellness and a healthy lifestyle in the community will be beneficial for all, including the uninsured minority groups. As a nurse practitioner, my plan would be to create a program to bridge the gap in care of the uninsured elderly immigrants, specifically those with diabetes in the city of Jacksonville. Research has shown that “ focusing on wellness and education programs as an approach for increasing the peoples’ understanding in making the connection between health status and lifestyle decreased mortality and morbidity rates in minorities

The Iowa model was specifically indented to be used by nurses and other healthcare professionals because it assisted them during various intervention stages, such as development and implementation, as said caregivers provided key knowledge to individuals about disease risks and decision-making tools. The non-clinical nature of the setting was well chosen, and it directly correlated with the HBM, since church-attending men would be more morally obligated to take preventive action, and receive timely treatment if they had any health concerns. In addition, the church setting was an appropriate venue, and it was relevant to the Community Empowerment Model because it allowed for direct interaction with community leaders, such as pastors, to build strong lasting relationships with them. The combination of the three above-mentioned models has led to the development of this successful method that have encouraged men to execute easily prostate cancer screening decisions, and to become more perceptive and aware of their health and welfare, while developing strong therapeutic relationships with individuals outside the sanctuaries, such as oncology nurses. Ultimately, the union of these three methods has

The American Nurses Association and Health Ministries Association (ANA & HMA) has described Faith Community Nursing (FCN) as a form of a specialized nursing practice carried out by a nurse within a faith community (ANA & HMA, 2012). The role played by the FCN is to protect, promote, and optimize health and abilities, prevent illness and injury, and respond to distress regarding the practice beliefs and the values of a faith community. The FCN focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as well as the promotion of holistic health and prevention and the reduction of illness (ANA & HMA, 2012). Furthermore, the FCN plays a significant role in developing community partnerships required to enhance health promotion (Breisch, Hurley & Moore, 2013). The ANA & HMA (2012) noted that an FCN offers services to faith community members and people in the neighborhood. The services provided range from case management, health education, patient advocacy, personal health counseling, coordination of volunteers, to acting as a liaison and referral agent between the people and health care sector. Therefore, an FCN acts as an advocate for patients and can teach the community on particular disease in order to improve their understanding and promote disease management.

Many people express faith in particular ways. However, many studies show patients of all faiths tend to use their perception on how their personal culture and ritual affect their health. Although many religions may have differing visions on providing care, one thing remains the same; people of faith will heal quicker. Every person, regardless of their traditions, religious, or cultural backgrounds, wishes to have their care met with respect and dignity. There are many of cultures with variety beliefs on healing. These beliefs may state certain way of practices that may require being focused on to remain a person’s total health. Healthcare professionals must be culturally sensitive to these differences needs by valuing diverse and adding in

This journal refers back to the class on 8/23/16. I had the pleasure to meet our gorgeous and knowledgeable professor and friendly classmates for first time. We were participating in an open discussion about the purpose of this elective course, our Faith Community Nursing class (FCN). We were able to meet the first competency of the course which is “The student will describe Faith Community Nursing/ Health Ministry.” We addressed this competency by firstly, differencing the meaning of faith community nursing, which is the licensed nurse that care for an individual as a whole including mind, body, and spirit and health ministry which is whatever a faith community do to promote the human’s well being as a participant of this community. Secondly,

In American society today, there is increasing numbers of different religious beliefs, religious practices, and religious sects that are different from traditional religion (Blutman, 2009). Religious diversity within American multicultural society may put health care professionals’ religious awareness, sensitivity and tolerance to a serious test when providing care.

The American Nurses Association gives a comprehensive list of responsibilities that are to be carried out by a registered nurse. It includes performance of physical examinations, taking health histories, providing health promotion, counseling and education, administering medications, wound care and numerous other personalized interventions, interpreting the patient information and making critical decisions about needed actions, coordination of care in collaboration with a wide array of healthcare professionals, directing and supervising care delivered by other healthcare personnel such as the nursing aides and also to conduct research in support of improved practice and patient outcomes (ANA, Accessed on 8/1/2016). The extent to

Health is a dynamic, changing state of well-being, which includes physical, mental, sociological, and cultural factors of both individual members and the whole family system (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hanson, 2015, p. 5). The Health and well-being of individuals and families are important in order to attain a healthy lifestyle. Community health promotion allows nurses to work with individuals, families, and groups from diverse cultures, traditions and languages to teach health-seeking behaviors (Stamler & Yiu, 2012). Health promotion engulfs preventing, maintaining, strengthening and improving each person’s health; by allowing them to learn ways to take an active part in self-care through education. The purpose of this paper is to discuss community health nursing, and how it fosters nursing practice through the experience gained from analyzing two scenarios from the Aberhart Center Tuberculosis Clinic. The CARNA competencies will be applied to the experiences.

The hospital saw the parish nursing program as a kind of outreach to the community. Parish nursing was actually rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and the Historic practice of professional nursing, and is consistent with the basic assumptions of many faiths that we care for self and others as an expression of God's love. However, it is not only available to Christian congregations. There are Jewish Congregational Nurses, Muslim Crescent Nurses, and RNs serving in similar capacities within other faith traditions. Faith community nursing scope and standers of practices was approved by the American nursing association in 2005, and updated in 2012 and define the specialty as the specialized practices of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the sprit as part of the process of promoting holistic care and preventing or minimizing illness in a faith community (American Nurses Association ) 2012 faith community nursing scope and standers of practices talks about the16 standards of faith community nursing practices which reflect the specialty professional values and priorities and provide, practices directions and the framework for practices evacuation each standard is

Health is a dynamic, changing state of well-being, which includes physical, mental, sociological, and cultural factors of both individual members and the whole family system (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hanson, 2015, p. 5). The Health and well-being of individuals and families are important in order to attain a healthy lifestyle. Community health promotion allows nurses to work with individuals, families, and groups from diverse cultures, traditions and languages to teach health-seeking behaviors (Stamler & Yiu, 2012). Health promotion engulfs preventing, maintaining, strengthening and improving each person’s health; by allowing them to learn ways to take an active part in self-care through education. The purpose of this paper is to discuss community health nursing, and how it fosters nursing practice through the experience gained from analyzing two scenarios from the Aberhart Center Tuberculosis Clinic. The CARNA competencies will be applied to the experiences.

The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Health Ministries Association (HMA) have described Faith Community Nursing (FCN) as a form of a specialized nursing practice carried out by a nurse within a faith community (American Nurses Association & Health Ministries Association, 2012). The role played by the FCN is to protect, promote, and optimize health and abilities, prevent illness and injury, and respond to distress regarding the practice beliefs and the values of a faith community (Dyess, Chase, & Newlin, 2010). The FCN emphasizes on the purposeful care of the spirit as well as the promotion of holistic health and the prevention and reduction of illness (ANA & HMA, 2012). Furthermore, the FCN plays a significant role in developing community partnerships required to enhance health promotion (Breisch, Hurley & Moore, 2013). The ANA and HMA (2012) noted that an FCN offers services to faith community members and people in the neighborhood. The services provided range from case management, health education, patient advocacy, personal health counseling, coordination of volunteers, to acting as a liaison and referral agent between the people and health care sector (Daffron, 2013; Ziebarth & Miller, 2010). Therefore, an FCN serves as an advocate for patients and can teach the faith based community about a particular disease to improve their understanding and promote disease management.