faith community nurse

Utilizing Your Faith Community Nurse Training

2023-06-29T14:44:52-04:00

Utilizing Your Faith Community Nurse Training Featured Article, June 2023 Are you like me?  Do you ever look at all the materials from your FCN course and feel a bit overwhelmed, wondering how you’ll ever be able to put all that information to good, practical use?  Have you sometimes looked at your nursing practice and felt even more intimidated as you recognize the true effectiveness of your ministry is directly related to your own spiritual health? Reading slowly (again) through the book “Steps to Christ” by Ellen G. White illuminated a template that is proving very [...]

Utilizing Your Faith Community Nurse Training2023-06-29T14:44:52-04:00

What Pastors Should Know about FCNs

2023-06-29T15:01:55-04:00

What Pastors Should Know about FCNs Featured Article, June 2023 In a world of complexity, riddled with despair, sickness, and crime, it is good to know that there are many pastors with caring hearts. Pastors are usually at the forefront of many of the events taking place in a community and in the church. However, they should be aware that they are not alone.  They should know that there is help within each church congregation in the form of Faith Community Nurses, who can assist in this most important work. Faith Community Nursing (FCN; previously known [...]

What Pastors Should Know about FCNs2023-06-29T15:01:55-04:00

Membership Matters

2023-06-29T15:08:55-04:00

Membership Matters Featured Article, June 2023 Are you an up-to-date member of the Adventist Association of Faith Community Nursing (AAFCN)? If your answer is “No”, then you are the right person reading the right article at the right time – time when matters of membership move to front and center. Are you eligible to be an AAFCN member? Friend Level – If you are a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church and are interested in promoting health ministry in your church, then the answer is “Yes!” Pastors, educators, non-healthcare people, allied health professionals, LPN’s and LVN’s, [...]

Membership Matters2023-06-29T15:08:55-04:00

Supporting Traumatized Individuals in the Church Community

2024-09-11T16:23:21-04:00

Supporting Traumatized Individuals in the Church Community Learning Objectives In every community and population, there is trauma. It is an epidemic in the world today. New research is coming out every year testifying to the dramatic effects of trauma upon the brain and body. In order for nurses to provide adequate care in any given field, trauma-informed practice is a necessity. This means having an understanding of how trauma affects the individual, both in the present and long after the traumatic events have ceased. This presentation will dig deeper than initial overview of [...]

Supporting Traumatized Individuals in the Church Community2024-09-11T16:23:21-04:00

Nurse Self-care

2023-02-08T15:54:34-05:00

Nurses Health and Self-care February 2023 The new year of 2023 is here and so is our brand-new Newsletter for the AAFCN in conjunction with the NAD.  The “AAFCN Illuminator” is set to be launched in February 2023.  This quarterly newsletter will feature inspiring articles to enhance the lives of FCNs through providing pertinent information and thought-provoking subjects.  We praise God for the suggestion of developing this newsletter from our leaders and all the committed and creative staff that will be working hard to produce and keep us up to date with the latest, evidenced-based information. [...]

Nurse Self-care2023-02-08T15:54:34-05:00

National Cancer Month

2023-06-29T14:34:03-04:00

February is National Cancer Prevention Month Social commerce is a part of the greater e-commerce market, which has seen a significant uplift in the past few years. In 2020, amid the COVID lockdown, social commerce got a big boom while people were confined to their homes. The volume of buyers on social media platforms has increased from 18 million buyers in 2018 to 80 million buyers in 2020. However,  after mid-2021, the count decreased to 56 million buyers due to lockdown relaxations and the opening of malls and shopping centers. In 2022, experts estimate 70 million [...]

National Cancer Month2023-06-29T14:34:03-04:00

Eula Winston

2023-06-29T14:16:32-04:00

Eula Winston Illuminator's Spotlight, February 2023 The AAFCN has recently started a quarterly newsletter called The AAFCN Illuminator. Within it we’ve decided to do a spot on a selected AAFCN called:  The Illuminator’s Spotlight.  It was not difficult at all to choose the first selectee as she (and her husband) are a couple that I have admired from a distance for several decades and for multiple reasons with its crowning reason…well, I will speak more on that later. Now, on to the interview:  A couple weeks ago she and I sat for a telephone interview which [...]

Eula Winston2023-06-29T14:16:32-04:00

Financial Fraud & Abuse

2024-09-11T15:56:47-04:00

Financial Fraud & Abuse Learning Objectives This seminar will prepare you to: Define the fraud Triangle Identify some of the different types of occupational fraud in the healthcare industry Describe instances of Asset Misappropriation Identify various methods used to obtain personal information or money through scams. Explore More Visit the AAFCN Education page for more informative and practical webinars. Nursing Webinars Email Newsletter Sponsored by Meet Our Presenter David Baer Controller North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists [...]

Financial Fraud & Abuse2024-09-11T15:56:47-04:00

Hospice vs Palliative Care

2024-09-11T15:41:24-04:00

Hospice vs Palliative Care in 2022 Learning Objectives Identify the difference between Hospice and Palliative Care Identify 3 Medicare Hospice Eligibility Criteria. Identify services covered by Hospice under the Medicare benefit. Discuss barriers to electing Hospice Benefit in the Christian community. Meet Our Presenter Gwendolynn Ware Harrell Explore More Visit the AAFCN Education page for more informative and practical webinars. Nursing Webinars Email Newsletter Sponsored by

Hospice vs Palliative Care2024-09-11T15:41:24-04:00

Irrepressible Courage

2022-06-01T16:48:28-04:00

Irrepressible Courage Staying the Course How does a health care provider maintain their passion and well-being when faced with overwhelming pressures?  What can we learn about resilience from an IV?  Join us as we explore how prayer and praise can help you stay the course when the exit sign beckons. Let us know what you thought of the presentation by completing the online feedback form. Give Feedback Meet Our Presenter DeeAnn Bragaw Director, Women's Ministries North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists DeeAnn Bragaw joyfully serves as Director of Women’s [...]

Irrepressible Courage2022-06-01T16:48:28-04:00

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