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Books

Allen Shelly, Judith and Miller, Arlene B. (1999). Called to Care: A Christian Theology of Nursing. Downers Grove , Illinois. InterVarsity Press.

Bakken, K.L., & Hofeller, K. H. (1998). Healing and transformation: Into the image and likeness of God. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany Fellowship Printing Division.

Caiger, Barbara (2006). Walking Alongside: the Essence of Parish Nursing. ISBN: 141205385-4. This book is available from Trafford Publishing for approximately $44.99 or from Chapters/Indigo and Amazon.ca for under $30 plus GST and shipping.

Carson, V. B. & Koenig, H. G. (2002). Parish Nursing: Stories of Service and Care. Radnor, PA: Templeton Foundation Press.

Clark, M., & Olson, J. (2000). Nursing within a faith community: Promoting health in times of transition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Djupe, A., Olson, H;, Ryan, J;, and Lantz, J. (1994) Reaching Out: Parish nursing services. Park Ridge, IL: International Parish Nurse Resource Centre.

Miller, Lynda W., RN, PhD, (2004) Faith and Health: A Framework for Christian Nursing. Trafford Publishing, ($25.00 if ordered from the author directly; mention CAPNM when you order and she will donate $5.00) Contact Lynda at lwmiller@telus.net and/or mail your cheque to her at 2245 Mt. Newton Cross Road, Saanichton, BC V8M 1T8.

Myers, Margaret E., RN, EdD, (2002) Parish Nursing Speaks: The voices of those who practice, facilitate and support parish nursing. Opus WholisticPublications, $28.95

Myers, Margaret E., RN, EdD, (2002) The Integrative Parish Nursing Model: a Theoretical Framework for Practice, Education and Research. Opus Wholistic Publications, $34.95

Solari-Twadell, P.A., McDermott, M.A., Ryan, J.A. and Djupe, A.M. (1994). Assuring viability for the future: Guideline development for parish nursing education programs. Park Ridge, IL: International Parish Nurse Resource Centre.

Solari-Twadell, P.A. Djupe, A.M. and McDermott, M.A., (Eds.) (1999). Parish Nursing: Promoting whole person health within faith communities. Park Ridge, IL: International Parish Nurse Resource Centre.

Striepe, J. (1989) Nurses in churches: A manual for developing parish nursing services and networks. Spencer, IA: Iowa Lakes Area Agency on Aging.

Westberg, Granger (1990). The parish nurse: Providing a minister of health for your congregation. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press.

The Essential Parish Nurse. Now available! Written by Rev. Deborah Patterson and Alvyne Rethemeyer of the IPNRC, 2004, with contributions from other clergy and parish nurses, this user-friendly book is a handy source of information for pastors, nurses, and lay people exploring options for developing their parish nurse ministries. The Essential Parish Nurse is available through the Eden Bookstore at (877) 627-5653 (toll-free), or through most on-line booksellers.

Manuals

Living the Vision of Healing. Mount Olivet Lutheran Church, Health and Wellness Committee, Sherwood Park, AB Email: mtolivet@oanet.com

Interchurch Health Ministries Handbook and Resource Manual.
Order from InterChurch Health Ministries, 676 Simcoe St. North, Oshawa, ON L1G 4V7
Telephone: 905-436-1572; 905-436-0639
Email: info@ichm.on.ca

Community of Care - A Parish Ministry of Care Manual
Order from CHAS, 1702 - 20th Street West Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7M 0Z9
Telephone: 306-655-5330
Email: cath.health@sasktel.net

Journal Articles

Bergquist, S., & King, J (1994). Parish nursing: A conceptual framework. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 12(2), 155-170.

Boland, C.S. (1998). Parish nursing: Addressing the significance of social support and spirituality for sustained health-promoting behaviors in the elderly. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 16(3), 355-368.

Droege, T. (1995). Congregations as communities of health and healing. Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 49(2) (April), 117-129.

Forbes, E. (2000). The church: A wellness refuge for the older person. Perspectives: Journal of the Gerontological Nursing Association, 24(3), 16-19.

Kuhn, J. K. (1997). A profile of parish nurses. Journal of Christian Nursing, 14(1), 26-28 & 34-35.

Martin, L. B. (1996). Parish Nursing: Keeping body and soul together. The Canadian Nurse, 92(1), 25-28.

Miller, L.W. (Winter 1997). Nursing through the lens of faith: A conceptual model. Journal of Christian Nursing. 14(1), 17-23.

Olson, J. & Clark, M. (1999, Spring). What is parish nursing? Exchange. 13-16.

Olson, J., Simington, J., & Clark, M (1998, September). Educating parish nurses. The Canadian Nurse, 40-44.

Rydholm, L. (1997). Patient-focused care in parish nursing. Holistic Nursing Practice, 11(3), 47-60.

Simington, J. (1996, fall). Parish nursing: Reclaiming the church's healing mission. Catholic Health Association of Canada Review, 19-20.

Simington, J;, Olson, J;, & Douglass, L. (1996, January). Promoting well-being within a parish. The Canadian Nurse, 20-24.

Solari-Twadell, P.A., & Westberg, G. (1995, June/July). Body, mind and soul: The parish nurse offers physical, emotional and spiritual care. Canada Lutheran, 16-18.

Stirepe, J., King, J., & Scott, L. (1993, winter). Nurses in the church: Profiles of caring. Journal of Christian Nursing. 8-11.

Tuck, I., & Wallace, D. (2000). Exploring parish nursing from an ethnographic perspective. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 11(4), 280-289.

The Journal of Christian Nursing: encourages spiritual and professional development, and has articles specific to parish nursing.  For more information about how the Journal can serve you go to www.ncf-jcn.org.

Videos

Available in Edmonton area from Evelyne Forbes, Parish Nurse at Mt. Zion Lutheran Church - Tel: 780 - 455-3538

Parish Nurse: On Call for Tomorrow 2000. 9 min., $15 plus postage
This video, produced by Berkley Studios, United Church of Canada, succinctly describes the roles of the Parish Nurse and Health Cabinet within the context of a congregational health and healing ministry as developed by InterChurch Health Ministries.
Order from InterChurch Health Ministries, 676 Simcoe St. North, Oshawa, ON L1G 4V7
Telephone: 905-436-1572; 905-436-0639
Email: info@ichm.on.ca

Three Acts of Illness. Granger Westberg speaks on the role of disease prevention and health promotion. 35 min.

Listening to Soul Pain. This video is aimed at those who offer services to people who are attempting to survive a difficult or traumatic life experience; whether from death of a loved one, war, rape, domestic violence, loss of a limb, being diagnosed with terminal illness, etc. 20 min. Available through Edmonton Victoria Order of Nurses, #100, 4634 - 87 St., Edmonton, AB T6B 2P9, Tel: (780) 466-0293; Fax: (780) 463-5629. $50.00 + $7.00 S&H.

Nurses and Spiritual Care. Video and Facilitator's guide, 23 min., $175.
Explains rationale for and principles of nursing involvement in spiritual care, desirable nursing qualities for spiritual care, spiritual interventions, challenges and barriers.
Order from Doreen Westera, Ass. Prof., School of Nursing, Memorial Un. of Nfld. Tel: (709) 737-7258. Fax: (709) 737-7037. Email: dwestera@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

Spiritual Assessment. Video and Facilitator's guide, 35 min., $175.
This video discusses the role of the nurse in spiritual assessment, focus and principles of spiritual assessment. Three clients are interviewed using Stoll's Guidelines for Spiritual Assessment.
Order from Doreen Westera, Ass. Prof., School of Nursing, Memorial Un. of Nfld. Tel: (709) 737-7258. Fax: (709) 737-7037. Email: dwestera@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

Spirituality. Video and Facilitator's guide, 22 min., $175.
This video program examines the concept of spirituality, distinguishing it from religion. Viewers are stimulated to reflect on their own spirituality.
Order from Doreen Westera, Ass. Prof., School of Nursing, Memorial Un. of Nfld. Tel: (709) 737-7258. Fax: (709) 737-7037. Email: dwestera@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

Nursing and Spiritual Care: an 8 part video series.
Cinemedic Distributors Inc.- This video, produced at the School of Nursing Memorial University of Newfoundland, would be of interest and benefit to any person with an interest in the spiritual dimension of the nursing profession.  To arrange preview or purchase contact cinemedic@bellnet.ca or www.cinemedic.ca.    1 866 488 8234 toll free or 416 488 8234

Preparation for Healing Services-Compiled by Karen Marks

Healing and Healing Services

Burgess, Ruth and Kathy Galloway Eds. Praying for the dawn: A resource book for the ministry of healing. Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications. 2000.
The healing ministry is first and foremost about justice and peace – about the healing of nations. But intertwined with that divine imperative is the healing of the individual, the healing of memory, of broken relationship. Always within the context of the community of the church or the family or the society the healing of broken minds and bodies is seen as a God-given task for Christ’s disciples in every age. (13) This is an excellent resource book that discusses the church’s healing ministry and the connection between justice and healing. There are liturgies and resources for introducing the ministry of healing in the life and worship of the church. There are questions to help you explore your thoughts about prayers for healing. There is a resource to help you plan your own liturgies. There are good resources about laying-on-of hands with questions for discussion that will be good for a training workshop.

Cowie, Ian. Jesus’ Healing Works and Ours. Glasgow, Scotland: Wild Goose Publications. 2000.
This book discusses in detail the individual healing stories of Jesus in the Gospels and the healing works in Acts. It includes background information, how Jesus went about healing and the implications. There is also a section at the end that relates to anointing with oil (231) and the ministry of healing for local churches.

Cowie, Ian. Prayers & Ideas for Healing Services. Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications/The Iona Community. 1995.
This book begins with three chapters that ask very good questions. Should we have healing services? Are healing services biblical? Should every service be a healing service? In addition to dealing with those questions, there are resources for understanding the components of a healing service as well as prayer and hymn resources.

Epperly, Bruce G. God’s Touch: Faith, Wholeness, and the Healing Miracles of Jesus. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. 2001.
Epperly is a process theologian and a reiki energy healer who asserts, “The universe exists as a cosmic dance in which each being arises in relationship with its neighbour. In this web of interrelationships, there are no hard boundaries between body and mind, person and environment, flesh and spirit, or medicine and spirituality.” (16) Epperly takes into account religion, science and medicine to interpret the power of a healing Christ. “Through a fresh reading of the Gospel narratives, Bruce Epperly reveals the centrality of whole-person healing within Jesus’ mission as teacher and social reformer, and stresses that churches should seek to recover a healing ministry that touches both the spirit and the body.”

Graham, Rochelle, Flora Litt and Wayne Irwin. Healing from the Heart: A Guide to Christian Healing for Individuals and Groups. Kelowna, BC: Wood Lake Books, Inc. 1998.
This is a must have book for healing ministries in the United Church. Wayne Irwin is a United Church minister who, along with Flora Litt a Therapeutic Touch practitioner (among other things), worked at the now defunct Lowville Prayer Centre. Rochelle Graham practices Healing Touch and brings an added dimension to the book. Together they discuss the science, theology and spirituality of healing. It includes meditation resources, healing services and practical hands-on-healing methods.

Hardel, Dick & Jennifer Mull. That It May Be Well With You! Minneapolis: Augsburg Youth and Family Institute. 1994.
This book attempts to provide a solid theological and biblical basis for a congregation-based wellness ministry. It challenges congregations to look at the effectiveness of their ministries in assisting people to see themselves as whole persons. It broadens the scope of wellness to include quality of life in the following areas: intellectual, spiritual, emotional, social, physical, environmental, and occupational. It is a small book with contributing writers Thomas Droege, David Hilton and Jack Lundin.

Kelsey, Morton. Healing and Christianity: A Classic Study. Minneapolis: Augsburg. 1995.
An updated version of the book published in 1973 using evidence from “the worldview of Jesus, the New Testament, Plato, Jung, and recent quantum mechanics.” The book concludes with a practical chapter on how to participate in healing ministry using as a model the ministry of Agnes Sandford.

Numbers, Ronald L. and Darrel W. Amundsen. Eds. Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1986.
This book includes historical information on the Jewish Tradition, the Early Christian Tradition, the Reformed Tradition and the Wesleyan-Methodist Tradition for use in my workshop. This book also includes historical background for many other Christian denominations. This is fascinating historical material that gives historical precedent to the use of healing services, anointing and laying-on-of-hands.

Pilch, John J. Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean Anthropology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 2000.
Healing is examined in each of the four Gospels and in Acts. There are discussion questions for each chapter. “Pilch takes us beyond the historical and literary questions to examine the social questions of how the ancient Judeans and earliest followers of Jesus understood healing. In his comparative analysis, the author draws on Mediterranean anthropology as well as the models employed by medical anthropologists to open the world of peasant societies and their healthcare systems.”

Thomas, Leo with Jan Alkire. Healing Ministry: A Practical Guide. Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward. 1994.
Leo Thomas has extensive experience as a practitioner and trainer in the ministry of religious healing. Thomas attempts to bring the concept of healing ministry to non-charismatics. This book includes a “how to” guide for ministry to different healing needs as well as resources for “Ministers of Religious Healing.”

Thomas, Zach. Healing Touch: The Church’s Forgotten Language. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press. 1994.
Thomas provides a model for reflecting on touch in pastoral care and guidance for congregations in designing appropriate healing services that include laying on of hands. Included are historical, biblical and scientific conclusions to support the use of healing touch. Case studies are presented and intent is examined as “the most important factor” in touch behaviour.

Wagner, James K. An adventure In Healing and Wholeness: The Healing Ministry of Christ in the Church Today. Nashville: The Upper Room. 1993.
I used this book for a group study to introduce the scriptural basis for a healing ministry in the church when we began our parish nursing ministry in my congregation. It is a good introduction into healing ministry and though I find the theology a bit conservative for my thinking, it can easily be adapted for use.

Holistic Health

Dacher, Elliott S. Whole Healing: A step-by-step program to reclaim your power to heal. New York: Penguin. 1996.
Written by a medical doctor, this book relates his theory of wellness that takes into account four systems for healing: the homeostatic healing system-the body’s natural system of checks and balances; the treatment healing system-both traditional and alternative treatments, the mind/body healing system-the co-dependence of physical and psychological components; and the spiritual healing system-spiritual/religious belief system. It discusses how we can draw on all the gifts for healing that are available to us. This holistic book fits the pieces together in a compassionate and empowering way.

Holistic Nursing

Dossey, Barbara Montgomery, Lynn Keegan and Cathie E. Guzzetta. Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice. 3rd Ed. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2000.
This book guides nurses in the art and science of holistic nursing and healing. Topics covered that are of particular interest to healing ministry include spirituality and health, the psychophysiology of body/mind healing, relaxation, imagery, music therapy, touch, relationships, facilitating healing in self and others and therapeutic communication.

Prayer

Dossey, Larry, Herbert Benson, John Polkinghorne, and Others. Healing Through Prayer: Health Practitioners Tell the Story. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre. 1999.
The title describes this book very well. Each chapter, by different health practitioners and spiritual care givers addresses healing which implies controlling suffering at every level. … It seems to me that, only when we connect with our inner silence and profit from its richness, can we heal. (8-9) These are healing stories that are told from a multi-disciplinary approach.

Dossey, Larry. Prayer is Good Medicine. Harper San Francisco. 1996.
Larry Dossey is a medical doctor who examines the healing power of prayer. He identifies prayer as a medical and scientific issue. He looks at scientific studies on prayer, but also examines prayer from the eyes of a faithful physician. He looks at the negative attitudes about prayer and identifies that the answers to prayer may depend on factors we have no knowledge of. It is a good balancing book that looks at prayer through different eyes.

Tanner, Anne. Practical Prayer: Making Space for God in Everyday Life. Toronto: Path Books. 2001.
This book would make a good study resource for people seeking to explore their prayer life, and to make them more comfortable in praying with others. The three parts of the book, each containing 4 or 5 different chapters are: Part 1-Welcomed into Prayer; Part 2-Giving Voice to Prayer; Part 3-Meditation and Action. This is a very user friendly book. Anne had a D.Min., is a trained labyrinth facilitator, has been an associate member of The Sisterhood of St. John the Divine for 26 years and managed the Anglican bookstore for 16 years.

Christian Meditation

Droege, Thomas A. The Healing Presence: Spiritual Exercises for Healing, Wellness, and Recovery. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Youth and Family Institute, 1996.
This is a wonderful book that includes how to use guided imagery exercises for healing as well as a number of guided imagery exercises for individual and corporate use.

Caregiving

Haugk, Kenneth C. Christian Caregiving: A Way of Life. Minneapolis: Augsgurg Publishing House. 1984.
This book discusses ministering to the whole person and is a good resource for training pastoral visitors. It begins by stating that Christians are responsible for care; God is responsible for cure. While the whole book is very good, the chapter called “Prayer” and another on “Sharing a Blessing” would be useful to use as resources in a workshop for those who want to participate in the process of offering healing prayers in a healing service or at other times.

For more information on Parish Nursing or for comments please e-mail:  parishnursing@capnm.ca

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