PSHM offers a standardized Basic Introduction to Parish Nursing course developed through the International Parish Nurse Resource Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The course is offered in partnership with the Center for Nursing Education at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.

Parish nurse education is based on the philosophy of parish nursing and includes a transformative curriculum that supplies the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to develop a parish nurse ministry. Content includes the core concepts of professional nursing: person, health, environment, and nursing. As a specialty practice of health ministry, parish nursing also embraces the additional concepts of professionalism; spiritual formation; shalom as health and wholeness; and community, incorporating culture and diversity.

Read about the students who graduated from this year's classes.

Objectives

• The participant will explain the seven roles of a parish nurse or health minister.
• The participant will demonstrate knowledge, attitude, and skills to practice as a beginning parish nurse.
• The participant will identify how parish nurses and health ministers can join a support system for professional development.
• The participant will list four ways parish nurses or health ministers can examine and nurture personal spiritual development.

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Course Content

• Teaching and Counseling Roles
• Management of Practice
• Grief Counseling
• Spiritual Care Giving
• Ethics and Values
• Wellness and Health Promotion
• Legal Issues: Accountability and Documentation
• Assessment Process
• Working with Congregations
• Working with Volunteers
• Prayer and Worship Leadership
• Program Development

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Class Locations & Dates

Seattle, Washington
July 13-16 and July 20-23, 2008

Contact: Emily Hitchens, Faculty Coordinator
Phone: 206-281-2964
Email: hitchens@spu.edu

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To Register

To register for the Basic Parish Nurse Preparation class, send the completed application form with a non-refundable $75.00 deposit to:

Puget Sound Health Ministries
School of Health Sciences Suite #106
Seattle Pacific University
3307 3rd Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119-1922

To register for a class outside Washington, get in touch with the contact person for that class, listed above.

Application form

Tuition and deposit may vary in out-of-state class locations. Persons interested in attending classes out of state should contact the coordinator for total tuition being charged.

Once registered, attendance is expected on a daily basis. Some evening sessions are required. Each class will conclude with a Commissioning Service. Further information will be sent upon receipt of a completed enrollment form and deposit. Registration minimum of 8 or class will be cancelled. Maximum of 30. Pre-assignments are required.

Refunds

Because of the planning involved for such an intensive program, the deposit is non-refundable. The Faculty Coordinator will be happy to work with registrants to move date of attendance to a future class if necessary.

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Objectives

Course Content

Class Locations & Dates

To Register

For more standardized curriculum courses  offered in partnership with the International Parish Nurse Resource Center, see www.parishnurses.org.

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