{"id":7457,"date":"2011-08-05T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2011-09-01T14:32:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T18:32:45","slug":"emu-to-offer-parish-nursing-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/emu-to-offer-parish-nursing-course\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU to offer parish nursing course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Registered nurses who are looking to gain skills to serve as a counselor, advocate and educator in their church community are invited to participate in the parish nursing course to be offered this fall at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU).<\/p>\n<p>The parish nursing course is sponsored by EMU\u2019s Adult Degree Completion Program (ADCP).\u00a0 The course is offered to any registered nurse or upper-level nursing student in an RN nursing education program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Parish nurses address the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of people &#8211; not seeking to separate the parts from the whole,&#8221; said Tammy Kiser, MSN, EMU assistant professor of nursing. &#8220;The role of each parish nurse is different as the needs of the faith community determine the areas of the nurses&#8217; focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Educator, Counselor and Advocate\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arlene G. Wiens, PhD, chair of EMU\u2019s nursing department, said parish nursing \u201csees the roles of the community health nurse as health educator, counselor, advocate and referral agent in a faith-based setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wiens said that the course \u201cis based on the accepted philosophy and practice of parish nursing and examines the roots of health and healing found in many religious traditions.\u201d Wiens noted that \u201ccritical thinking strategies, such as Socratic questioning, will be used to analyze the spiritual dimension of health and healing for the practitioner as well as clients being served.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Tammy Kiser at 540-432-4166; tamela.kiser@emu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registered nurses who are looking to gain skills to serve as a counselor, advocate and educator in their church community are invited to participate in the parish nursing course to <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/emu-to-offer-parish-nursing-course\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about EMU to offer parish nursing course<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":7525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,12546,5600],"tags":[8921,10010,9561],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-7457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-adcp","category-nursing","tag-arlene-wiens","tag-jim-and-aldine-musser","tag-tammy-kiser"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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