Faith Community Nurse Network

Who is a Faith Community Nurse?

A faith community nurse is an experienced, actively licensed Registered Nurse who has completed specialized professional nursing education focused on intentional care of the spirit. FCNs serve in congregations and community settings, making home visits, leading health promotion groups, conducting healing services, helping individuals and families obtain needed healthcare and much more.

Did you know?

• Faith Community Nurses make about 100,000 home visits in the Twin Cities each year - and never charge for their services.
• More than hald of faith community nurses serve as unpaid professionals.
• Research published in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing found Faith Community Nursing interventions with more than 1,000 seniors not only saved lives, but also resulted in cost savings of $3.5 million.
• Faith community nurses promote whole-person health beyond congregations, spending 20% of their role serving their neighborhood or community at large.

About the Network

The Faith Community Nurse Network (FCNN) is an interfaith, service organization of and for faith community nurses. FCNN promotes the professional role of the faith community nurse and supports FCNs in Minnesota in order to strengthen outcomes of their nursing care.

We need you!

Faith community nurses provide high quality spiritual, physical, and emotional care right in our communities. Help support these incredible health care workers! Become Engaged Today: