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New Executive Hired
The Board of Faith Community Nursing/Health Ministries NW is pleased t
o announce the hiring of a new Executive Director. Her name is Heather Simko and she will officially b
egin her
responsibilities on September 1, 2016. There will be a one month overlap with Annette Stixrud, who originally agreed to a six month transition that lasted over 2 years.
A Note from Heather
Summer greetings!
I am thrilled to join this fall and begin to get to know each of you and support you and this ministry in the important work being done to improve the lives and health of the people in our communities around the Northwest. I write to you from Dearborn, MI where I am serving as a chaperone for my daughter's high school church youth group trip. We are here for a cross-cultural, interfaith learning opportunity with the large and diverse Arab Muslim population that calls this area home. We are recipients of their generous hospitality and some of the most delicious food I have ever eaten! I pray each of you are finding time to also be stretched, to grow, and to be refreshed in these beautiful summer months. I look forward to meeting many of you soon.
Blessings and peace,
Heather
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Celebration of Health 2016
Together in Healing is the title of the Celebrations of Health 2016 in Seattle and Portland on November 5 & 6, 2016.
The featured presenter for both events is Donna Oiland,
board member of LCN/HMN and a popular speaker through Radiant Joy Ministries. She will focus on The Healing Power of Stories. Donna is an experienced speaker with an informal, passionate and motivational style that intertwines personal experience, humor, and storytelling in a way that is compelling and contagious.
Seattle: November 5, 2016 at Aurora Church of the Nazarine from 4:00 to 6:30 pm
Portland: November 6, 2016 at Red Lion on the River, Jantzen Beach from 1:00 to
4:00 pm.
General Registration -- $60
FCN/HMN Members -- $25
Join us for Fun, Food and Fellowship
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Classes for 2016/17
to Include Hybrid Option
Carol Reitz, Lead Faculty for FCN/HMN, and Annette Stixrud worked throughout June and part of July to write an online curriculum in order to offer a hybrid c
 lass for Foundations of Faith Community Nursing. The class would meet initially for 1 ½ days, do the online portion the following 8 weeks, and then meet for 1 day for some face-to-face time and a dedication service.
Jeanne Brotherton, former coordinator from Bellingham, WA, gifted FCN/HMN with, in her words . . .
The teaching materials, Power Points, handouts, materials related to the online portion of the hybrid course referenced above, that were developed by me (Jeanne) and Jessica Klassen, RN, ARNP and Faith Community Nurse, have been freely provided to FCN/HMN for educational purposes.
These materials are to be used in the development of an updated "Foundations of Faith Community Nursing" hybrid course, based on the Foundations of Faith Community Nursing Curriculum, 2014 revision, developed by the IPNRC (now the Westberg Institute) at the Church Health Center in Memphis TN.
We are grateful to the following without whom this option would not have been possible: for Jeanne and her generosity; for Mark Wahlers, Provost, and Kathy Bales, Director of Instructional Design, Concordia University, Portland, OR, for giving us the opportunity to use their online platform and guiding us through the process; for Carol and her writing and teaching skills and nursing knowledge; for Annette's tireless energy and determination; and for her daughter, Lindsey Stixrud, who knows a lot about online classes and editing.
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Parish Nurse Featured
The April issue of Fig Tree, a nonprofit ecumenical and interfaith newspaper in the Inland Northwest, chronicled Rosemary McDo
ugall's journey in establishing a parish nurse ministry at St. George's parish in Post Falls, ID.
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Coordinator/Faculty Retreat in October
At their October
Retreat the coordinators and faculty will not only welcome
Heather Simko, b
ut also have as their special guest and speaker, Lisa Zerull, PhD, RN-BC,
Editor for Perspectives: A Newsletter for Faith Community Nurses at the Westberg Institute.
To learn more about Lisa Zerull
T
he retreat will take place on October 12-14, 2016 at the Archbishop Brunett Retreat Center at the Palisades, Federal Way, WA.
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Entry and Exit
The Board of Directors of FCN/HM
N welcomes
new board member, Kathy Welch, faith community nurse/coordinator, who relocated to Oregon from Florida. She represents Adventist Health and replaces Ed Hoover, who served two terms and was ineligible for reelection. Kathy comes to the board with a vast knowledge of faith community nursing, extensive experience as a faith community nurse coordinator and a deep appreciation for the Adventist perspective on health ministry.
Veteran Coordinator Leaves Area
After serving as a Parish Nurse Coordinator for Samaritan Pacific Health Services in Newport, OR sinc
e 2006 and adding an additional hospital in 2012, Karen Wright is relocating to Tennessee, where she hopes to continue her work as a faith community nurse. She took the Basic Foundations class at Concordia University in 1993 and served as a parish nurse in Lakeview, OR until she and her husband moved to Newport, OR. After taking the Coordinator Course in August, 2005, she was offere
d the coordinator position in Newport the following year. Karen distinguished herself as a dedicated faith community nurse, a respected and committed coordinator and a tireless advocate for health ministry. She leaves a legacy of service. We wish her well as she opens up a new chapter in her life.
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