O’Brien, Mary Elizabeth. (2003). Parish nursing: Health care ministry within the church. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

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

Carson, Verna Benner & Koenig, Harold G. (2011). Parish nursing: Stories of service and care. (Revised Edition). West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press.

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

Van Dover, L. & Pfeiffer, J. (2012). Patients of parish nurses experience renewed spiritual identity: a grounded theory study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 68 (8), pp. 1824-33.
This article describes how the main concern of the patients to resolve their health challenge resulted in changes to their spiritual identity. Phases of this change resulting in enhanced understanding of whom they are (known and loved by God) are described.

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Tanner, Anne. (2001). Practical prayer: Making space for God in everyday's life. Toronto: Path Books.
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.

Rupp, Joyce. (2007). Prayer. Maryknoll, New York: Obis Books.

Dossey, Larry. (1996).Prayer is good medicine. Harper San Francisco.
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.

O?Brien, Mary Elizabeth. (2003).Prayer in nursing: The spirituality of compassionate caregiving. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Cowie, Ian. (1995). Prayers & ideas for healing services. Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications/The Iona Community.-
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.

Rabior, William. (2001). Prayers for later years. Liguori, MO: Liguori Press.

Rupp, Joyce. (1988, Rev. 2009). Praying our goodbyes. Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press.

Burgess, Ruth and Galloway, Kathy. (Eds.). ( 2000). Praying for the dawn: A resource book for the ministry of healing. Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications.??-
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.

Barton, Jane W., MTS, MASM Professional Boundaries: Discerning the Line in the Sand. Life quality institute: Advancing palliative care. (Google on-line).

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

Free, Betty. (2002). Quiet moments for caregivers: Devotional and worship ideas for caregivers and care receivers. Wheaton, Il: Tyndale House Publishers.

Fish, Sharon. (2000), Quiet moments for nurses. Ann Arbor, MI: Vine Books, Servant Publications.

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