Question

how does your chrisitan faith inform you about the key elements of a physician-patient relationship in a patients physical, emotional, and spiritual health?

Answer 1

Ans) In many patients' lives, spiritual or religious beliefs may affect the decisions they make about their health and illness and the treatment choices they make.

Faith community: A group of people who share a particular set of religious beliefs In any faith community there are varying levels of commitment.

- Faith community nursing is a practice specialty that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit, promotion of an integrative model of health and prevention and minimization of illness within the context of a community of faith.

- Faith community nurses are employees of the congregation and receive support from fairview through grants and annual trainings.

- Nurses are licensed, registered nurses who have received training to provide care that is spiritually-focused in a faith community—bringing together faith and health, spirituality and healing.

- It is important to note that faith community nurses are not expected to provide patient care in the church or at a patient's home but rather to be a source of referrals for services in the community. They coordinate existing services and supplement them with a holistic dimension of health and caring.aith community nurses serve in several roles, including:

• Health advisor

• Educator on health issues

• Visitor of church members at home or in the hospital

• Provider of referrals to community resources and provide assistance in obtaining needed health services

• Developer of support groups within the church

• Trainer and coordinator of volunteers

• Provider of health screenings

- It is important to note that faith community nurses are not expected to provide patient care in the church or at a patient's home but rather to be a source of referrals for services in the community.

- For services, they coordinate existing services and supplement them with a holistic dimension of health and caring.

- A parish nurse program or faith community nurse program can operate in several different ways.

- Models include:

1) one church supporting its own full or part-time nurse,

2) several churches supporting one nurse,

3) a group of volunteer nurses supporting one or several churches or

4) a nurse related to a hospital or clinic who supports a church or churches as part of his or her job.

Services:

- Fosters, promotes, and provides opportunities for spiritual care to be discussed and integrated into the parish nurse role documenting spiritual care of groups and individuals.

- Participates in the planning and providing of prayer and worship life of the congregation.

- They integrate faith and healing to promote wellness within the community they serve.