Pittsburgh Mercy Health System
Parish Nurse Program
Events
Parish Nurse Basic Preparation Course 2010
Fall Session: October 1-2, 2010 and November 5-6, 2010
Cost: $395 (limited scholarships are available)
RNs will earn 30 CEUs* and be commissioned as Parish Nurses.
See times listed below.
Location:
Beulah Presbyterian Church, 2500 McCrady Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15235
Are you a registered nurse or other health care professional with an interest in promoting health, wellness, and spirituality, coordinating volunteers, or in starting a visitation ministry in your parish or congregation? If so, consider becoming a volunteer parish nurse or health minister.
The Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Parish Nurse and Health Ministry Program is sponsoring a four-day basic preparation course for those interested in becoming parish nurses or health ministers.
Parish nursing is internationally recognized as a specialty nursing practice that combines professional nursing and health ministry. The practice of parish nursing emphasizes health and healing within the faith community as well as the community at-large. Parish nursing also embraces four major concepts: the spiritual dimension, professionalism, wholistic health, and community. Parish nurses and health ministers provide prevention and wellness education and assist parishioners in accessing health care resources in their communities.
The four-day, Parish Nurse Basic Preparation Course summer session will be held October 1, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; October 2, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and November 5, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and November 6, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. All sessions will be held at Beulah Presbyterian Church, 2500 McCrady Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15235.
The course follows the International Parish Resource Center’s newly revised curriculum. Modules offered include prayer, self care; healing and wholeness; ethics; documenting practices; legal aspects; communication and collaboration; family violence; suffering, grief and loss; advocacy; care coordination; and more. All modules are taught by parish nurse educators and other health care professionals who are considered subject matter experts in their respective fields of practice.
The cost is $395 per person. Limited scholarship funds are available. Class size is limited to 20 participants.
The registration deadline for the fall session is September 17.
Thirty continuing education credits will be provided to registered nurses who attend the four-day session.*
For additional information about the courses, contact Dorothy Mayernik at 412-232-7997 or dmayernik@mercy.pmhs.org. For more information about parish nursing, visit www.pmhs.org and www.ipnrc.org.
*UPMC designates this continuing education activity for 30 clock hours. UPMC is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. UPMC, ANCC COAC and PSNA do not endorse any commercial products as a result of the CE activity.
