Recently added articles from Parish Nurse Perspectives:
Real men eat bread, fish, and fruit.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Last June, the Harvard Health Letter ran an interesting article about men's health and the role that ideals about masculinity plays in health promotion. The author of "Masculinity and men's health" states, "Men start having heart attacks and strokes in large numbers about a ...
Featured parish nurse program.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Joyce Green, the congregational nurse at Shiloh Holiness Church of God in Christ in Greensboro, has saved one young man--and one hospital--a lot of money. In helping him fill out forms for medicine to control seizures, she was able to prevent repeat ambulance calls and visits to the ER ....
Resources for parish nurses.(Making Your Church a House of Healing)(Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet)(Sabbath Retreat )(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Making Your Church a House of Healing by Michael Gemignani, MS, PhD, JD Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2008 ($14.00 US) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rev. Dr. Gemignani, who founded both the Brazosport Medical Center, to provide health care for the ...
"Got My People Going!!".(Survey)
Mar 22, 2009; ... 65 Trinity Lutheran Church members rose to the challenge to "Get Going" and participated in the eight-week invitation to wholeness, "Get My People Going!" which was offered January 12 through March 8, 2009. Participants chose 3 areas to focus on improving over the eight weeks ....
"When did we see you?"--Stan's story.(Column)
Mar 22, 2009; ... How many of us have seen a "different" person and have gone out of our way to avoid them? I'll admit I have. Stan showed up at our church last December, and stayed for coffee hour. Being really busy the month of December, it was easy for me to see him but not get to talk to him. I saw ...