Mercy Parish/Congregational Nurse and Health Ministry staff is available to help you with your program in a variety of ways. By working together to build a network of resources, we can grow in service to our Lord. Listed below are a variety of resources that may be borrowed from our Resource Center. Be sure to check under “Events and New Resources” regularly to learn about any new items added. If you have any questions please call us at 412-232-7151 or e-mail us at pnresources@mercy.pmhs.org and we will be happy to help you.


VIDEO TOPICS:

• Aging
• Alzheimers
• Arthritis
• Cancer - prevention, living with it, specific forms
• Care giving
• Children – hygiene, grief, stress
• Diabetes
• Exercise
• Fall Prevention
• Grief
• Healing
• Health Assessments for all ages
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Mental Health
• Parish Nurse Programs
• Prostate Care
• Skin Cancer
• Smoking
• Spiritual Growth
• Stress
• Ulcers
• Walking
• Women’s Health – menopause, etc.

BOOK TOPICS:

• Body, Mind and Spirit
• Clinical Assessment Resources
• Exercise
• Health Issues
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Legal Issues
• Newsletter Helps
• Nutrition
• Parish Nurse Reference
• Spiritual Care and Prayer

EQUIPMENT:

ROLOTAPE wheel can be borrowed to help you accurately set up a walking route. We have books and program materials on walking that could be used to help you set up your program. Why not walk the same number of miles that it would take to get to Jerusalem or Bethlehem this year?

SCALE AND STADIOMETER can be used to weigh and measure clients for a health fair or walking program.

PROGRAMS TO BE BORROWED OR PURCHASED:

• BP BOX contains everything that is needed to conduct a blood pressure screening at your organization. BP Box includes reproducible easy-to-read materials on subjects relating to the heart as well as materials to help conduct your screening. The new HIPPA rules are addressed.
• BETHANY MINISTY Self-study Module Kit is an organized program to aid the parish/congregation in its role of responding to the wholistic needs of its people. Listening and communication skills are taught. The Kit includes a CD Self-Study Module and a 2 hour video that provides helpful information and guidance through the self-study reference material in the 100 - page manual. This would be a great way to get your volunteer health ministry team ready to serve others.
• DIABETES BOX is a collection of resources including easy-to-read educational materials to help the new and long time diabetic better understand their disease and how to manage it. Posters, forms and other reproducible items will help your organization prepare for a screening and future educational activities and monitoring.
• ELIZABETH MINISTRY is a program that reaches out to help women and their families to truly celebrate the gift of each child conceived and born and fully mourn each miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth and infant or child death. Elizabeth Ministry’s mission is to cherish children, encourage families and build community. It offers peer support, mentoring, spiritual nourishment, as well as educational and inspirational resources.
• FIT AND BE FREE is a medically monitored, individualized, progressive exercise and health education program. This program requires a professional exercise trainer and does require a participant charge. This program can be reviewed at the Parish Nurse Office, but the individual member material will need to be ordered from the company.
• GRIEF BOX is a collection of resource material that addresses the dying and death process. Resources for local respite care, hospice care, and bereavement groups are arranged in easy-to-find file folders. Religion and death, AIDS and SIDS, daily care, physical changes, prayers and poems are part of the topics covered.
• HEALTH BAG is a program that will improve the body, mind and spirit of the homebound as well as the volunteers that 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.
• HEALTH MINISTRY BOX for The African-American Church offers a wide variety of topics on diseases and conditions that are commonly found in the African-American community. It includes tips on weight loss, smoking cessation, nutrition and healthy cooking as well as resources for more information.
• PREPARE TO SERVE Bible series offers Bible studies with five 60 minute sessions in each. Topics include: Prepare to Care, Prepare to Encourage, Prepare to Change, Prepare to Lead, Prepare to Comfort and Prepare to Reconcile. Each box comes with video and reproducible materials.
• ROSE BUD is a collection of ideas and resources to get your organization started with a supportive program for mothers as they begin their journey through motherhood. The target of this program is new moms and those with preschoolers. It encourages a support system and bonding of mothers.
• SAFE AT HOME AND ON THE ROAD WITH ALLSTATE includes many safety items on the market today to help keep our children safe. This would make a good presentation at a young mothers or grandparents group.
• “WALK TO JERUSALEM” AND WALK TO BETHLEHEM” is a collection of ideas to help you present a walking program with a goal.
• “WALKING IN THE WAY:A WALKING PROGRAM FOR WHOLEPERSON
  HEALTH” includes a guide for personal or group options.
• WOMAN TO WOMAN BOX offers program suggestions to address the needs of the middle age and older woman.

ARCHIVES:

• Assessment tools in all areas of body, mind and spirit
• Articles about Parish Nursing
• Articles about what is happening in your areas sent in by you

FILES:

• A wide collection of information
• Many resources for reproducing

CDs:

• Health Notes from the Hill (Bulletin Inserts)
• “Wellness Tip Of The Week” Vol I
• “Wellness Tip Of The Week” Vol II
• Creative Hands for Help and Caring (Craft Ministry)