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Faith Community Nurses: Caring For Individuals, Congregations, And Communities During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Mary Lynne Knighten Dnp, Rn, Nea-Bc, Lorie Hacker, Phyllis Ann Solari-Twadell, Lanet Owen Bsn, Rn-Bc, Bob Kentner Dnp, Rn, Chpq, Cen, Tcrn, Linda F. Garner Oct 2021

Faith Community Nurses: Caring For Individuals, Congregations, And Communities During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Mary Lynne Knighten Dnp, Rn, Nea-Bc, Lorie Hacker, Phyllis Ann Solari-Twadell, Lanet Owen Bsn, Rn-Bc, Bob Kentner Dnp, Rn, Chpq, Cen, Tcrn, Linda F. Garner

International Journal of Faith Community Nursing

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues for nearly two years, communities of faith are struggling to meet the spiritual needs of individuals, congregants, and communities during a particularly trying time in history. They have experienced closures, phased re-openings, and reinstated restrictions as the pandemic sees the fourth surge and a deadly more transmissible form of COVID in the Delta Variant. Faith Community Nurses, who are specially educated to provide intentional care of the spirit, play a pivotal role in providing care, support, and education to maintain and improve whole person health when people are isolated, physically distant, and at times critically …


The Effect Of School Return During The Covid-19 Pandemic On Children’S Physical And Mental Health, Kaitlynn Craig Jan 2021

The Effect Of School Return During The Covid-19 Pandemic On Children’S Physical And Mental Health, Kaitlynn Craig

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Flashback to midnight on January 1st, 2020. It was New Year’s Day, the beginning of a new decade. Many were filled with excitement and hope to make this year the best one yet. Little did they know that their entire world would be turned upside down a short two months later with a worldwide pandemic, the coronavirus. COVID-19 has affected people in many ways. Some lost their jobs, others struggled to maintain their education virtually, and unfortunately, too many lost their lives. As a nursing student, fear grew while imagining the role of becoming one of the frontline workers battling …