Is a Faith Community Health Ministry in Your Future?
Faith Community Nurses are registered nurses who practice autonomously, often leading multidisciplinary health resource centers in faith communities and other community settings with a focus on spiritual care.
Faith Community Nurses provide holistic care for the people they serve, with a focus on spiritual care. They use assessment skills to facilitate health education, advocacy, and connecting people to needed resources. They serve as a trusted resource for guidance in managing a health condition. These nurses are not direct caregivers, rather they help faith community members learn about chronic disease self-management and navigate the proper resources to help coordinate care.
These FCNs often lead a health ministry, and doing so in a Health Resource Center with a multidisciplinary team is becoming more common. Serving as a health minister is an ideal role for health professionals other than nurses and lay people with a passion to serve who are interested in applying their experience and expertise to support their community. Health expertise is certainly not required. There are many ways a health minister supports the health ministry team; anyone with a servant’s heart is welcome to take the training to become a health minister.
Ready to learn more about setting up a nurse-led health resource center in your faith community or other community setting?