Granger Westberg, a Lutheran hospital chaplain, founded parish nursing in 1984, an outgrowth of his interest in the mind/body/spirit connection. He had long explored how health and sickness seemed closely linked to a patient's outlook on life. He designed a congregation-based program where the parish nurse sees health as more than the absence of disease but rather a condition of well-being or wholeness. His ideas are contained in The Parish Nurse: Providing a Minister of Health to Your Congregation. The caring he inspired will serve as a lasting legacy for Westberg, who died Feb. 16 at age 85. Resources
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