{"id":7888,"date":"2009-06-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/10\/the-emergence-of-faith-based-nurses\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T12:00:00","slug":"the-emergence-of-faith-based-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/10\/the-emergence-of-faith-based-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emergence of Faith-Based Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"mailto:mailto:mediarelations@uamail.albany.edu\">mailto:mediarelations@uamail.albany.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALBANY, NEW YORK, May 27, 2009: [HPI note: Hindu health care professionals may be inspired to implement a faith-based service for the continually growing Hindu population in the United States.]<\/p>\n<p>Faith community nurses (FCNs) are playing an increasingly significant role in providing better access to basic health services for under-served populations, according to the University at Albany&#8217;s Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS). The study suggests that FCNs are also a mechanism of retaining valuable expertise of public health nurses after they retire.<\/p>\n<p>The role of faith community nurses is to &#8220;provide services that traditional medicine just doesn&#8217;t have enough time for, including talking about exercise, nutrition and smoking cessation programs,&#8221; said CHWS research associate Sandra McGinnis.<\/p>\n<p>Results also showed that FCNs were likely to offer several public health services through their congregation, including blood pressure clinics, individual and family health counseling, crisis intervention and referrals. &#8220;We expect to lose a lot of nurses to retirement in the next 10 years, so this is a potential model to recruit retired nurses and keep them involved in providing health care services to the community,&#8221; said McGinnis. &#8220;Then their knowledge won&#8217;t be completely lost to the public good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: mailto:mediarelations@uamail.albany.edu ALBANY, NEW YORK, May 27, 2009: [HPI note: Hindu health care professionals may be inspired to implement a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}