faith community nursing
Faith Community Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that promotes intellectual, social, spiritual, and psychological health within faith communities. Recognizing that health is more than the absence of disease, a Faith Community Nurse is knowledgeable in both professional nursing and spiritual care.
Congregations already promote health through worship, music, caring and sharing. Adding a registered nurse to the ministry team can enhance this promotion with the knowledge and guidance of a congregation's whole health need. The "HEALTH" roles of a Faith Community Nurse include:
Health Counselor: Discusses individual needs regarding illness and medications, prevention and wellness, and gives reassurance during times of crisis.
Educator: Promotes the relationship between faith, health, attitudes, and lifestyle choices through bulletin articles, literature racks and education programs.
Advocate: Identifies the medically under-insured, indigent, or abandoned members of the congregation who need support for decision-making about health care issues.
Liaison: Connects congregational members to each other in response to needs as well as appropriate services within the community and government agencies.
Trainer: Recruits, prepares and supervises volunteers in health and pastoral ministries. Provides information and/or education to assist them in their role.
Healer: Facilitates a whole person approach to healing of body, mind and spirit.
our faith community nurses
St. Francis employs three Faith Community Nurses that serve communities near ST. FRANCIS downtown. They live out the Bon Secours mission of bringing "good help to those in need" by promoting compassion, liberation and healing in extending the charism of the Sisters of Bon Secours to these communities.
Robert Hayes, RN, Manager, Faith Community Nursing/ St. Francis CARES
Serves the Sterling Community
864-351-9968
Jean Lilley, RN, BSN
Serves Mulberry Court and those who are homeless
864-293-9479
Sara Ostendorff, RN, BSN, MSW
Serves St. Anthony's of Padua Catholic Church and the West Greenville Community
864-351-9729
