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President’s Passage Fall 2024 Dear FCNI Members and Friends,
Fall for FCNI is busy and exciting. Our second annual virtual conference is being held on October 19th, with two exemplary internationally known speakers bookending a focus on “practice driving research and research driving practice” presentations by our colleagues. Please visit the FCNI homepage at https://www.fcninternational.org/ and click on the link to learn about our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Lorraine Wright, a renowned speaker from Calgary, Alberta in Canada. You may also access the flier and schedule that lists Wright's keynote, "Spirituality, illness suffering, and curious compassion, general sessions on practice and research, and the plenary session “Spiritual wellbeing in the context of chaos” by speaker Dr. Elizabeth Johnston Taylor. Download the attachments from the website and share this information with all of your colleagues and networks. Post to your listservs. Come and network with the FCNI community for this exciting virtual conference! REGISTRATION IS OPEN! Register now at https://www.fcninternational.org/event-5797259 for the FCNI Annual Virtual Conference “Opportunities for Building Spiritual Health in Faith Communities" on Sat. Oct. 19 from 10 to 3 pm CT, which is just a little over a month away! Early bird registration ends soon, so hurry to the registration page to snag that discounted rate. Please stay tuned for an additional benefit for FCNI members. Dr. Kathy Schoonover-Schoffer, Editor in Chief, has graciously offered a discounted subscription rate for the Journal of Christian Nurses. Thank you, Kathy! One of the things I love about FCNI is that we are here for you 24/7/365. Our Education Committee recently been added our has 2023 webinars to our website as on demand recordings. You can view these NOW if you missed them for the same registration fee as the original (along with CNE credit for up to two years following the original webinar). So, if you live across the ocean or find yourself awake in the middle of the night, you may still be engaged with our subject matter experts and get ANCC accredited CNE contact hours that are FCN-focused. The 2024 and 2022 webinar recordings and special spiritual series are coming soon. Our Research Committee has launched a Research and EBP Community of Support with FCNI members who have volunteered their expertise to help other members who are conduction research and implementing QI or EBP projects in their faith communities. Finally, check out our new feature: I Am FCNI! Every month we will feature an FCNI member in action. Let us know if you’d like to feature your ministry and practice. Join us for an exciting fall as we move faith community nursing forward!
NEW BENEFIT FOR FCNI MEMBERS! Discounted subscription to the Journal of Christian Nursing through Lippincott using code WMK028AA.
This benefit is graciously made possible by Dr. Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner, Editor-in-Chief of JCN | I Am FCNI! This is a new feature intended to capture our FCNI members in action in our communities. Every month we will feature an FCNI member and their ministry and/or practice. Let us know if you’d like to be featured. We can accept videos, narrative, and/or pictures. Let's get to know each other better! I’m Amanda Thurman, DNP, FNP-BC and I serve the faith community and larger community in the San Diego, CA area who are suffering from food insecurity. Expanding on doctoral work I and my and my colleagues completed, we obtained grant funding to open a Fresh Marketplace near the free clinic where we work as nurse practitioners. I and my colleague, Kristin Kellog, DNP, FNP will be speaking at the FCNI Annual Virtual Conference on October 19th. You can hear more of our story then! 
L - Kristin Kellog and R – Amanda Thurman at the Fresh Marketplace grand opening.
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Upcoming Webinars & Registration |
The FCNI Education Committee invites you to
“Growing Our Spirituality: Who Are We?”
Presented by: Rev. Dr. Esther Brown, EdD, RN, FCN-BC, ThB
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 7 pm ET, 6 pm CT, 5 pm MT, 4 pm PT on Zoom
- This session will address the need to identify our spirituality through becoming more self-aware. This will in turn help us, as FCN’s, assist our clients in faith communities.
Learning outcome: Upon completion of the activity, nurses will be able to:
- Describe who they are as spiritual beings.
- Describe how awareness of their spiritual identity can be used to help others and develop nursing interventions to meet spiritual needs.
- Esther Brown is a nurse leader, career FCN, pastor, nurse faculty, and dean of her denominational seminary who has worked in health care and ministry. Her passion for people with health disparities led her to work in Community health for over 40 years. She continues practice in the community with FCNs experiencing burnout and regularly provides support and resources for the greater FCN community.
Registration: CNE 1.0 ANCC contact hours. Link is at the bottom of the home page.
$20 for Members; $40 for Nonmembers
FCNI Annual Virtual Conference – 2024
“Opportunities for Building Spiritual Health in Faith Communities”
Saturday, October 19 from 10 am to 3:30 pm (CT)
Keynote: Dr. Lorraine Wright
“Spirituality, illness suffering, and curious
compassion: What is the connection?”
Plenary speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
“Spiritual wellbeing in
the context of chaos”
Feedback from last year’s First Annual FCNI Conference in Fall 2023:
- “The entire conference was excellent. All the speakers demonstrated expertise in their subjects and adhered to the time allotment.” and “Very interesting and informative...Looking forward to the next one.”
Upon completion of activities at this conference, learners will be able to:
- Identify ways to build spiritual health, wholistic health, and well-being in faith communities.
- Discuss how nurses address suffering, tragedy, and crisis among families in faith communities.
- Describe how to acknowledge and support client and family problems in real time.
- Discuss the relationship of research and practice in cultivating spiritual health and well-being.
Early Bird through Sept. 30: Members $115; Non-members $165
Regular Rate after Sept. 30: Members $125; Non-members $175
If you join at $50 per year at same time as paying conference registration, you will realize a return on investment immediately - and be eligible for discounted CNE webinars for next 15 months.
Teen-Senior Connections: An Intergenerational Approach for Building Teen Resilience Presented by: Marcia Davis, DNP, RN, CRNP-PC Description: Faith Community Nurses face challenges in creating relationships among the generations. In the literature, resilience had been identified as a protective factor against the alarming rate of teen suicide in the US. This presentation describes a study to build teen resilience by using an intergenerational approach within a faith community. Outcomes reveal potential benefit for both young and old including other options for exploring intergenerational activities among a congregation. Bio: Marcia Davis is a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care. She received a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Nursing degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), a Nurse Practitioner Certificate from California State University at Long Beach (CSULB), and her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree from the Azusa Pacific University. She has over 45 years of experience with children in inpatient and outpatient settings, private clinics, and school settings, and has been an Assistant Professor for over 12 years at Loma Linda University and at Azusa Pacific University. Learning outcomes:
Registration: CNE 1.0 ANCC contact hours $20 for Members; $40 for Nonmembers  |
Community of Support for Research and EBP:
A New Benefit for FCNI Members
The FCNI Research Committee is thrilled to announce that we have developed a Community of Support for Research and EBP. The goal is to provide mentoring, networking, support and consultation to FCNI members who are conducting research studies or EBP projects and disseminating scholarly work related to those research studies and EBP projects.
We are NOW accepting applications for the FCNI Community of Support for Research and EBP Program. If you are interested in becoming a mentee, visit our “Research Webpage” and submit your application
FCNI Webinars for 2024 - Save the Date Webinars (on Zoom)
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SAVE THE DATE: Upcoming FREE 2024 events! |
Free Inspirational Networking Events (registration required). Bring a friend. President’s Round Table Forum: from 6-7pm CT
Scholarly Article Discussion Hour: from 6-7pm CT
Member Orientation: from 5-6pm CT
Annual Membership Meeting
Registration information for all events: www.fcninternational.org |
FCNI Events
Presenting Offer From: Widener University School of Nursing
Presenting By: Dr. Donna Callaghan, PhD, RN-BC, CNE, Professor
Starting Date: May 13, 2024
Closing Date: August 25, 2024
Time: 6 pm to 7 pm Central Time on Zoom
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Widener University School of Nursing is offering the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing’s Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Program for registered nurses who are interested in learning more about the specialty of faith community nursing and how to establish or enhance these ministries in their own faith communities (churches, mosques, synagogues).
The asynchronous 36.5 hour online program will open on May 13 and close August 25, 2024. Dr. Donna Callaghan, PhD, RN-BC, CNE, Professor of Nursing at Widener and certified Faith Community Nurse, will facilitate the program. The program consists of 15 modules that require from 1 – 4 hours to complete on a weekly basis. Registered nurses who complete the program will receive 36.5 PDC hours through Widener University School of Nursing, an ANCC-approved PDC provider.
PROGRAM DISCOUNTS!
1. The fee for the program is $400plus purchase of the participant guide (approx. $50).
2. New and renewing members of Faith Community Nurses International (FCNI) can receive a code to take the program at a 50% discount ($200).
3.Please email Donna Callaghan at drdonnarn@comcast.net for registration information.
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Suggested Reading
The Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (2021)The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities and promote equity, while keeping costs at bay, utilizing technology, and maintaining patient and family-focused care into 2030. This work builds on the foundation set out by The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2011) report.
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25982/the-future-of-nursing-2020-2030-charting-a-path-to | Other Recommended Reading
A comprehensive report published this month by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine strengthens the case for primary care as the foundation of the U.S. health care system. It also makes policy recommendations that reinforce several of the AAFP’s long-standing advocacy positions.
https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20210504nasemreport.html |
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