"The Essential Parish Nurse is a practical and useful resource for churches that are interested in developing a parish nurse program. Covering a broad range, it dictates the need for such ministry, a brief history of parish nursing, the role of the parish nurse and where details of interest to those wishing to establish such a ministry. This valuable resource includes an appendix with sample materials needed to scars a parish nursing ministry such as: parish nurse "job description, congregational health needs survey, service of installation for a parish nurse, parish nurse survey for the congregation; parish nurse performance evaluation mal, parish nurse outcomes measurement wol; and a list of parish nurse resources.