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Parish Nursing is a recognized specialty practice that combines professional nursing and health ministry. Parish nursing emphasizes health and healing within a faith community.

The  philosophy of parish nursing embraces four major concepts: spiritual formation, professionalism,  health and wholeness, and community.  

• The spiritual dimension is central to parish nursing practice.

• The parish nurse role reclaims the historic roots of professional nursing. 

• The parish nurse understands health to be a dynamic process that embodies the spiritual, psychological, physical, and social dimensions of the person.

• The practice of parish nursing focuses on a faith community.