Pittsburgh Mercy Health System

Parish Nurse Program

Parish Nurse Store

The Mercy Parish Nurse and Health Ministry Program appreciates your donation.

Blood Pressure Box

Assemble your own Blood Pressure Box with everything needed to conduct a blood pressure screening. We will provide you with bulletin articles and posters to advertise, instructions for setting up the screening, sign-up sheets, forms for documentation, BP guidelines, and 84 reproducible health education handouts from the American Heart Association. All materials are reproducible. CD included so you may add your church's name before duplication.

Qty $35.00 each for reproducible handouts and forms ONLY

Blood Pressure Training Kit

Refresher course on the standard methodology for measuring BP based on the most current guidelines from the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. Kit includes 67-page instructor manual and 10-minute DVD demonstrating proper technique and common mistakes. Give students, staff, and volunteers an opportunity to learn and review technique.

Qty $60.00 each

Health Bag

A program that will improve the body, mind and spirit of the homebound as well as the volunteers who work with them. Volunteers are trained to work with the homebound person using up-beat music, exercises, relaxation tapes, prayer and conversation. The manual includes reproducible items, suggestions, and resources to make this a winning program. Call us for consultation in starting a program. Manual, DVD, and canvas bag.

Qty $55.35 each (includes $10.35 for shipping and handling)

Bethany Ministry Self-Study Module Kit

Designed to help churches to start a ministry to the sick, homebound, and bereaved in the parish. The kit includes a 100-page manual and a 2 hour (18 track) DVD teaching program covering topics including: How Illness Affects the Body, Mind, and Spirit, Instilling Hope, Communication Skills, Confidentiality, What to Say to the Grieving, and other information to prepare volunteers to minister to people in need. This would be a great way to get your volunteer health ministry team ready to serve others.

Qty $70.35 each (includes $10.35 for shipping and handling)

Qty $10.00 each for additional participant manuals

Health Ministry Pins

One inch (1″) round lapel pin done in gold and purple with white candle. Clutch back, finished with a cloisonné process.

Qty $8.00 each for less than 10 pins

Qty $6.00 each for 10 or more pins

Recipes for Caring

An Expression of Parish Nursing and Health Ministry. Mercy Parish Nurse and Health Ministry Program has compiled a 184-page book of stories about parish nursing, program ideas, poems, and favorite recipes. These varied ways of caring will warm your heart, encourage you in your ministry, and fill you with good food. Nicely bound in a 6 x 8 1/2 inch 3-ring binder.

Qty $10.00 each

Wellness Tip of the Week

By JoAnn C. Kauss, RN, MSN of St. Malachy Church, Coraopolis, PA. Weekly bulletin inserts for an entire year on a wide variety of timely subjects of body, mind and spirit. Easy to use CD. Volumes I and II are available.

Qty $15.00 each

Creative Hands for Help and Comfort

A CD with brochures of 11 different craft ideas that groups can use to reach out to members of your church or community. Each brochure can easily be changed to include your name, address or other logo. All levels of craft experience are offered.

Qty $15.00 each

Computerized Documentation System

Easily record information and interactions with your clients in this user-friendly computer program, specifically designed by Pittsburgh Mercy Health System parish nurses for use by parish nurses. Document client problems by selecting from a concise list covering wholistic health: physical, mental, spiritual, relational, and financial. Rate the problem initially and at follow-up assessments using a 1-5 scale. This enables you to record the client’s progress and demonstrate the outcomes of your parish nurse interventions.

Since parish nurses do much more than care for individual clients, the system also allows you to document educational programs, volunteer participation, and gifts and services provided by your health ministry team.

This documentation system gives the user the ability to produce numerous types of reports to show the impact of the ministry. Many other useful features are also included.

To try a demo, please click here and select “Save”. Your computer must have Microsoft Access 2000 or later to operate the demo.

Purchase includes a detailed User's Manual.

Sliding scale pricing for parish nurse networks is available.

Sorry, the database is not available for purchase via credit card. Purchasers will be invoiced for payment.

Qty $200.00 each

Volunteer Outreach Database

Organize your volunteer program with this computer database. Keep track of how your volunteers help members of your parish and community (errands, grocery shopping, transportation to medical appointments, etc.). Many other useful features.