From the Parish Nurse

Polly Kehn, R.N.
Parish Nurse 

Parish Nursing balances the theme of wellness (health promotion, disease prevention) with healing (disease, recovery, death).  The Parish Nurse focuses on enhancing the well being of parishioners and the parish as a whole.  The Parish Nurse is involved in the continuum of health. 

Parish Nursing is a well-established ministry at Trinity.  It is not uncommon for personal health and community resource information to be given to members in the congregation each month. 

A health article with a spiritual background appears monthly in the “Tidings.”.  Homebound or hospitalized members of the congregation are regularly visited and assessed, often linking them to outside community resources.  

Parish Nursing has reached beyond Trinity to encompass homebound members in our community, generally the elderly, who are not members of Trinity.  Medication assistance, visual assessments, and assistance in accessing community resources have been provided. 

Lay Eucharistic ministry is an integral part of Parish Nursing.  Communion is taken to many people on a weekly basis, also reaching into the community to those not belonging to Trinity, but of the Episcopal faith. 

The goal for the coming year is to continue to journey with the members of Trinity and those in the community, encouraging them to be stewards of their own health, assisting them to experience spiritual, mental, emotional and physical wellness.