Faith Community Nurse
Ministry Tools
"Equipping the Called"

(Available to Members Only)

These are free health tip sheets that you can download and are published in English or Spanish.  There is a current month bulletin amd also an archive of hundreds of other topics to choose.   

The link can be found in the Member's Only section under Program Library Toolkit. Go to the page and scroll down.  Check it out now!!

Living Lutheran Articles

Love and Serving: Faith Community Nurses Care for Body, Mind, and Spirit
Faith Community Nurses promote health and wellness in congregations and also at churchwide and synod gatherings.   Several of our members share quotes and stories about the effectiveness and  joys of faith community nursing that ministers to  body, mind, and spirit.

CLICK HERE for this and two previous articles about Faith Community Nursing.

MAY

• Mental Health Month: www.mentalhealthamerica.net/may
• Mental Health Action Guide from Mental Health America:   https://mhanational.org/mental-health-month/action-guide/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d62e06b0-767f-4a1b-be5e-a949739a3bde
• Arthritis Awareness Month: www.arthritis.org 
• Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month: www.aad.org/public/spot-skin-cancer/ programs/skin-cancer-awareness-month 
• National Stroke Awareness month: www.cdc.gov/stroke/index.htm  
• May 11-17: National Women’s Health Week: www.womenshealth.gov/nwhw 

JUNE

• Men’s Health Month: 
  https://menshealthmonth.org/
• Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month:
  https://www.alz.org/abam/overview.asp
• Migraine and Headache Awareness Month:
  https://www.migraineheadacheawarenessmonth.org/
• PTSD Awareness Month:
  https://ptsd.va.gov/

Taking some time for your own spiritual development is vital to your ministry.  We have some resources that will help you.

Click HERE

Jean Bokinskie (Region 3) does the work of finding appropriate research articles, gives a brief review of the content and summarizes implications for FCN practice. 

There are new articles posted every two months on the odd months.

Go to Members Only and click on Research Reviews.

2025 Grants to Congregations
... for Ministry Start-up or a New or Expanded Ministry in Existing Practices

LFCNA has long been supportive of new Faith Community Nurse (FCN) ministry start-ups and are acutely aware of the challenging financial situations of congregations. In response to this need, LFCNA will again provide funds for start-up of a new ministry or development of a new focus of ministry in an existing FCN practice, for three (3) Lutheran congregations in 2025. Congregations may request up to $750.00 in grant funding. 

CLICK HERE for the Grant Announcement

CLICK HERE for the Application

Codeveloped by the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross, these guidelines represent the first comprehensive update of first aid treatment recommendations since 2010. Incorporating the results of structured evidence reviews from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, these guidelines cover first aid treatment for critical and common medical, traumatic, environmental, and toxicological conditions. Key topics that are new, are substantially revised, or have significant new literature include opioid overdose, bleeding control, open chest wounds, spinal motion restriction, hypothermia, frostbite, presyncope, anaphylaxis, snakebite, oxygen administration, and the use of pulse oximetry in first aid, with the inclusion of pediatric-specific guidance as warranted.

CLICK HERE to go to the site.

 HEADLINES 
WORTH THE READ!

• Chronic loneliness may raise stroke risk in adults 50+

• Aspirin and Heart Disease - AHA

• Weight loss linked to lower cancer risk for obese people
  

• Legislators mull extension of hospital-at-home initiative 

• 54% of  pediatric asthma caregivers familiar with oral corticosteroid long-term effects

• Immunization Resources

• What Not to Say to People With Complex Chronic Illness