The following is intended as a sample of the literature available on the topic with particular attention to the scope and standards of practice.

* Faith Based Ministries … Just a few of the Many!! - PDF Document

* ANA/HMA, Faith Community Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice. Silver Springs MD: Nursesbooks.org, 2005.
(Describes the specialty practice of faith community nursing & provides an understanding of the unique scope of knowledge & the standards of care & professional performance expected of a faith community nurse.)

* Hickman, J. S., Faith Community Nursing. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006
(Combines traditional parish nursing content with community health nursing methodology, coverage of community and faith community assessment, and health education and health promotion/disease prevention programming. Also provides information on complementary/alternative medicine. The focus is on the Christian faith but includes diverse faith traditions and reflects the diversity traditions in today's communities.)

* O’Brien, M.E. Parish Nursing Healthcare Ministry with the Church. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2003
( Provides a guide to spiritual care of the sick, with many examples from her own experience.)

* Patterson, Deborah L. The Essential Parish Nurse ABC’s for Congregational Health Ministry. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2003.
(A panel of experts, presents a fundamental understanding of all aspects of parish nursing. The integration of spirituality and health is described and core interventions used by parish nurses are addressed. in the context of the standardized languages of NANDA, NIC, and NOC. This is the only text about Parish Nursing that addresses the role of the parish nurse administrator.)

* Smith, Sybil D. Ed. Parish Nursing A Handbook for the New Millennium. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2003.
(Provides writings of various parish nurses and their experience, reflection & ideas for the future.)

* Solari-Twadell, P.A. and McDermott, M.A., Parish Nursing Promoting Whole Person Health Within Faith Communities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999.
(A handbook on health promotion in faith communities that covers such things as settings for practice, roles, models, collaboration, spiritual care & international perspectives.)

* Chase-Ziolek, M. (2005). Health Healing and Wholeness: Engaging Congregations in Ministries of Health. Cleveland OH: Pilgrim Press.

* Farnham, S., Gill,J., McClean, R., Ward, S. (1991). Listening Hearts Discerning Call in Community. Harrisburg PA: Morehouse Publishing.

* VandeCreek, Larry, and Sue Mooney ed. 2002. Parish nurses, health care chaplains, and community clergy: Navigating the maze of professional relationships. New York: Haworth Press. This unique book helps to clarify the roles and interprofessional dynamics of these professions and describe how they can best work together.