Online Companion: Nursing Fundamentals: Caring & Clinical Decision Making

Web Sites
Chapter 48: Spiritual Health

Caring Congregations
www.caringcongregations.org/
Provides education for people working in ministries that link health and faith.

Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health
http://garcia.geri.duke.edu/religion/index.html/
From Duke University, this Center presents research on spirituality and a newsletter on the latest research.

International Network for Interfaith Health Practices
http://www.ihpnet.org/
Provides information on the Interfaith Health Program of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Congregational Nurse Program of Saint Francis Hospital of Evanston, Illinois.

International Parish Nurse Resource Center (IPNRC)
http://ipnrc.parishnurses.org/index.phtml/
Offers a definition of parish nursing, history of parish nursing, educational programs, information about the Westburg Symposium, and much more; from Deaconess Parish Nurse Ministries, St. Louis, MO.

The University of Virginia’s Religious Movements Homepage Project
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/
Offers summaries of over 200 religious movements.