The Parish Nurse Program at Holy Trinity Parish was developed by Barbara Logan. They sponsor monthly blood pressure clinics and other events throughout the year. Please email Barbara Logan at barbaralogan@comcast with any questions
 

Parish/Faith Community Nursing is "the specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as part of the process of promoting wholistic health and preventing or minimizing illness in a faith community."

Goal:  "The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilites; prevention of illness and injury; and response to suffering in the context of the values, beliefs, and practices of a faith community"

Addresses:  "The spiritual, physical, mental, and social health of the patient."

Patient: "May refer to the faith community as a whole, or groups, families, and individuals in the faith community."

"With the intentional focus on spiritual health, the Faith Community Nurse primarily uses the nursing interventions of: education, counseling, advocacy, referral, utilizing resources available to the faith community, and training and supervising volunteers from the faith community."