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Running Head: COLLABORATING COMMUNITY NURSING AND FAITH BASED
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Collaborating Community Nursing and Faith Based Nursing
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Introduction
In the context of 21st-century healthcare, healthcare organizations and healthcare
professionals are being called upon to look into the wider concept of community. Healthcare has
become a fundamental aspect of life. On the same note, quality and reliable healthcare have
become equally important not only to patients but also to the general public and healthcare
policy makers at large. The entire world is facing a health crisis prompting healthcare
organizations to re-evaluate their partnership with other sectors of the society in a bid to
providing quality and reliable healthcare within the communities. Healthcare organizations
through health professionals are joining hands together with the faith based nursing community
so as foster better health and wellbeing within communities (Patterson, Wehling & Gayle Mason,
2008). The collaboration between healthcare professionals and parish nurses is aimed at creating
the bridge needed to better address the needs of the vulnerable and the underserved population
within the communities.
The heritage of health and healing in faith communities
Faith-based communities have created a positive impact in the provision of healthcare in
communities around the world. They have brought compassion to care, improved community
health and lowered the cost of healthcare within many communities around the world. They have
improved health and spiritual wellbeing of communities by healing body, mind, and soul. Some
of the faith-based communities visit hospitals and healthcare organization providing spiritual
encouragement to ill patients thus enabling them to recover wholesomely (Patterson, Wehling &
Gayle Mason, 2008). Their volunteer work helps in encouraging patients to have faith on their
health thus allowing them to recover more efficiently.
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Active involvement of faith-based communities within the healthcare industry is
revolutionizing the concept of health and healing. It has provided a...