Who We Are and What We Do

PARISH NURSING TEAM MEMBERS

Pastor Greene, Debbi Dietz, RN, Marlys Morris, RN, Rhonda Roesch, RN, Sheila Sherman, RN, Joan Shurbet, RN, and Roberta Smith, RN.

Parish Nursing is an opportunity to share and promote the responsibility of each person to be a "Good Steward of God's Creation" and to be "His Brother's Keeper".

Please use the links to the left to learn more about our Parish Nursing Program.

We have active Parish Nurses at American Lutheran.

We are available:

1. Saturday evening and Sunday mornings for glucose and blood pressure checks,

2. We continue to respond to questions-we have a unique group in that we cover various areas. So if one doesn't know the answer and will refer to another,

3. We have had several educational seminars:

• 3-week series on "Weight Loss"
• 2-hour meeting on "Medical Power of Attorney"
• 3-week series on "Stress, Anxiety and Depression"
• 2-hour meeting on "Medicare, Managed Care and other Insurances"
• 3-hour series on "Humor, Prayer and Music Therapy" ending with sing along and light lunch
• 3-hour session titled "From Here to Eternity" having various speakers from Home Care, Hospice, Nursing Home, Extended Living Facility and ended with speaker from Funeral Home
• 3-hours of "Give your Children and Family a Gift" Putting your critical papers in order, along with A Special Memory Book to give to your Family.  This includes a speaker on making your funeral plan
• 5-hours of "Your Money and Your Life" Topics of budgeting, money managment, debt management and credit
• 9-sessions of "Bringing Up Boys" by James Dobson
• 8-sessions of "Homes of Honor, Parenting" by Gary Smalley,

4. Vial of Life Program,

5. Card Ministry,

6. We have assisted parishioners in writing letters of concern to health care facilities,

7. Provided educational materials concerning specific health conditions-we have developed quite a library of educational materials,

8. We participate in health Fairs at other churches,

The Parish Nurses meet with a Pastor on a monthly basis. We review new programs and discuss general issues raised by the Pastors where they want us to intervene to help them.