Parish nursing--a conceptual framework.

Abstract

Parish nursing is a current nursing care delivery model that practices holistic health care. Parish nurses provide care to a faith community, emphasizing the relationship between faith and health. Specific nursing activities address physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being, closely attending to the inseparability of these dimensions. Parish nurses may assume one or more roles associated with this practice to accomplish parish nursing activities and achieve the holistic health and well-being of individuals, families, and groups within the faith community. The five broad categories of client, health, nurse, environment, and nursing process provide a framework for organizing the concept of parish nursing for future nursing theory, research, and practice.