Faith Community Nursing, 1st ed. 2020 An International Specialty Practice Changing the Understanding of Health

A multi-authored book, with editors and authors who are leaders in Faith Community Nursing (FCN) that aims to address contemporary issues in faith-based, whole person, community based health offering cost effective, accessible, patient centered care along the patient continuum while challenging contemporary health policy to include more health promotion services.  

Twenty-five chapters take the reader from a foundational understanding of this historic grass-roots movement to the present day international specialty nursing practice. The book is structured into five sections that describe both the historical advancement of the Faith Community Nursing, its current implications and future challenges, taking into account the perspectives of the pastor, congregation, nurse, health care system and public health national and international organizations. 

The benefits of this book are that it is intended for a mixed audience including lay, academic, medical professionals or health care executives. By changing the mindset of the reader to see the nurse as more than providing illness care, the faith community as more than a place one goes to on Sunday and health as more than physical, creative alternatives for promoting health emerge through Faith Community Nursing. 

Foreword.- Prologue: Context-Global from the beginning.- Section I. Changing the Health of Nations: The contribution of Faith Community Nursing.- Faith Community Nursing: A Professional Specialty Practice.- Faith Community Nursing: As Health Ministry.- Wholistic & Holistic Nursing Practice Framework Faith Community Nursing in Nations. Advancing the Science of Faith Community Nursing.- Section II. Changing the Understanding of Health: Education and Faith Community Nursing.- Standardization of Educational Preparation of Faith Community Nurses:  Applications within Nations.- Ongoing Continuing Education and Formation for Faith Community Nurses.- Documenting Models of Faith Community Nursing Educational Perspectives.- Utilizing Formalized Education: Advanced Practice Nurse as a Faith Community Nurse.- Section III. Changing the Understanding of Health: Faith Community Nursing Development.- From the Perspective of the Pastor and Congregation.- From the Perspective of the Community Nurse.- From the Perspective of the Physician.- From the Perspective of the Health Care System.- From the Perspective of the Public Health Department.- Section IV. Changing the Understanding of Health: Professional Organizational Perspectives.- Historical Perspective of Organizational Development and Faith Community Nursing.- The Westberg Institute: An Evolution of the International Parish Nurse Resource Center.- The Health Ministry Association.- Faith Community Nurses International.- ANA State and Regional Faith Community Nursing Organizations.- Section V. Changing the Health of Nations: Issues and Trends in Faith Community Nursing.- Documentation and Storage of Records.- Long Term Sustainability of Faith Community Nursing Programs.- Transitional Care.- Integration of Faith Community Nursing into Health Care Systems and Reform.- Prevention and Faith Community Nursing.- Research Agenda in Faith Community Nursing.- Epilogue. 

P. Ann Solari-Twadell received her Bachelors of Science degree, her Masters and her Doctorate in Nursing from Loyola University. She received a Masters in Public Administration from Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois. She was employed for twenty-five years at Advocate Health Care in Park Ridge, Illinoisand worked for 10 years in Addiction treatment as Director of Nursing Services for Parkside Lutheran Hospital, a specialty hospital for addicted patients. From 1984-88 she was president of the National Nurses Society on Addictions. For the last fifteen of the twenty-five years Ann held the title Director of The International Parish Nurse Resource Center, Advocate Health Care, Park Ridge. In that capacity she was the editor of “Perspectives on Parish Nursing Practice” a regular publication of the International Parish Nurse Resource Center. Ann also coordinated 15 Annual Granger Westberg Symposium’s on Parish Nursing and the development of a standardized core curriculumfor parish nurses in collaboration with Loyola University Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and Marquette University School of Nursing. This included the preparation of over 65 Faculty to offer the standardized core curriculum in over 70 sites in the United States, Canada and Australia. Ann has co-edited and is a contributing author of the text Parish Nursing: The Developing Practice, Parish Nursing: Promoting Whole Person Health within Faith Communities and Parish Nursing: Development, Education and Administration.  Most recently Ann is employed at Loyola University Chicago in the Marcella Neihoff School of Nursing as Associate Professor of Nursing, tenured and Director, Global Experiences and International Studies. She has recently stepped down from the position as Director, Accelerated Nursing Program. Ann is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. 

Deborah Ziebarthreceived her Associate Degree of Nursing at Milwaukee Area Technical College, aBac