title: Parish nursing and Clinical Pastoral Education.
abstract: Parish nursing is growing within the church. Providing Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) to parish nurses can be a rich experience for them, their congregations, and persons in leadership positions. In turn, such educational efforts can provide CPE programs with a legitimate and credible community outreach. This contribution describes a CPE Introductory Unit for parish nurses and explores its implications for the nurses, their congregations and the CPE movement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pastoral Services, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, H118, Box 850, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Derrickson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital; D002835:Christianity; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005260:Female; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000193:education*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States