Full Description
Faith community nursing and health ministry programs in congregations have increasingly been recognized as having a significant impact on the health and well-being of individuals. Based on a case study in Omaha, Nebraska, Transforming Lives: Health Initiatives in Faith Communities documents how nurses and health ministers touch and transform the recipients of their services and the participants in activities they organize. Alexander Rödlach argues that much of their success is due to their ability to collaborate with leadership in congregations and health systems. These programs have the potential to become significant partners with health systems and governments in providing health services to communities.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction
1.The History of Faith Community Nursing and Health Ministries
2.Touching and Transforming Lives
3.Collaboration with Healthcare Organizations: Enabling and Constraining
4.Collaboration with Congregations: Essential and Limiting
5.Collaboration with Peers: Encouraging and Sustaining
6.The Faith Community Nurse: The Core and Heart of Health Ministries
7.Health Ministries Expanding the Scope of Public Health
8.Social Relationships and Health
Conclusion
References
Index
About the Author
