Question

Is health a legitimate concern of the Christian church? what has your experience been with health ministry in the church setting? Have you encountered a faith Community Nurse in your experience? How would the Faith Community Nurse role enhance the health of your faith community? How does the Faith Community Nurse role support global and planetary health?

Answer 1

Religious beliefs cause patients to forego needed medical care,refuse life saving procedures,and stop necessary medication,choosing faith instead of medicine.Health practitioners ned to learn to respect the decisions taken by patients based on religious beliefs and not become offended or feel rejected.Regular religious practice lessens depression,promotes self esteem,and builds familiar marital happiness.Religious worship also increases longevity,improve's an individual's chance of recovering from illness and lessens the incidence of many diseases.

Faith community nursing,formerly known as parish nursing,is one model of care that relies heavily in older registered nurse to provide population based and other non clinical services in community settings.Faith community nurses answer the call for measurable outcomes by documenting cost savings and cost avoidance to families.I came across faith community nurse in my working period.They give more mental support if we were in depression or in sad mood.Additionally,as part of their practice,faith community nurse seek to understand how religious beliefs and life transitions such as marriage,divorce,birthdeath and illness impact on spiritual and mental halth care.Planetary health is a systematic application to human helth,frm global to local scales of the four laws of ecology,that is everything is connected to everything else,everything must go somewhere,nature knows best,there is no such thing as a free lunch.Faith cmmunity nurses give importance to rapid identification and controlof emerging infectious diseases and thus helping the health of commmunity.