Course trains nurses helping local churches
A training course for nurses who help local churches provide for the health of their members will be offered next month at Castle Medical Center.The parish-nurse training course will be presented Feb. 2-6 at the Kailua hospital and Feb. 9-13 in Kailua-Kona on the Big Isle.
The course will be led by Carol Story, program director of the Puget Sound Parish Nurse Ministries in Seattle. Classes cover the nurse's role as health advocate and educator and as a part of the ministerial team, and give instruction in ethical and legal considerations for nurses and the role of the congregation in health, healing and wholeness. Friday is the deadline for registration. The fee is $200. Call Sue Pignataro, 247-2828, for information.
Besides the hospital -- a Seventh-day Adventist Church affiliate -- the sponsors are Health Ministries Association of Hawaii and, on the Big Island, the Catholic Office of Social Ministry.
Discussion will focus on conflict in Mideast
A panel discussion about the conflict in the Middle East will be presented 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Harris United Methodist Church."The Holy Land: Perspectives on the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict" will be presented by members of the Friends of Sabeel.
The presentation at 20 S. Vineyard Blvd. is public and free.
The event is sponsored by church's Commissions on Church & Society, Global Ministry, Education and United Methodist Women.
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