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Membership Membership in the ELPNA is currently defined by participation and meeting the following criteria:
In addition, the nurse must meet one of the following criteria:
Dues options
If you are joining, please scroll down to select one of these options and follow the prompts. |
- Promote and support parish nursing within the ELCA and other Lutheran congregations, including encouraging the development of parish nurse ministries. Membership dues help provide grants for ministries.
- Participate in educational events offering professional and spiritual growth sponsored by the organization with continuing education units whenever possible.
- Networking with other Lutheran Parish Nurses.
- Access to the ELPNA Member Directory.
- Reduced fees for educational program registration
- Access to Members Only portion of the website.
- A members discount the Journal of Christian Nursing (JCN). This excellent journal includes research, and articles specifically related to Faith Community Nursing. The discount code can be found under Members Only/Directory on our website. This code takes a 1 year print/online subscription of 4 issues from $80 to $64. This is a 20% discount that includes postage. Members will also receive a discount for CEU's on specific articles in the JCN. These discount codes will be sent along with the thank you note after you have joined or renewed your membership. It is also available in the Members Only section of this website. If you are a member and cannot find the discount code, send your request to elpna.national.org.
- Discount for joining Nurses Christian Fellowship. You can use the code, FCNSpecial, for 15% off at https://nurses.events.intervarsity.org/ncf-auto-renew-membership. NCF members get JCN, PLUS free and discounted CEUs and lots of other product discounts. Depending on what NCF membership level you choose (practicing nurse or retired nurse over 60) and how you want to receive JCN (in print + online access or online-only), the discount takes the price from $79 to $67.15 (one year practicing nurse print + online JCN) to as low as from $55 to $46.75 (retired nurse auto-renew online-only JCN).
- Promote health and wellness among congregations and support church leaders through our presence at churchwide and synod gatherings.
- Seek opportunities for parish nurses to have representation on Synod Councils and to be integrated into the practices and the future vision of the Church.
- Respond to your responsibility to belong to a professional nursing organization as a parish/faith community nurse.
Membership Support Whether you are a paid or unpaid parish nurse, you may want to ask your congregation to support you by paying your dues to ELPNA. Attached is the draft of a letter you can personalize and send to your pastor, parish council president, supervisor, or appropriate committee to support you in this process. This letter is to request payment of your membership dues by your organization or church in support of your practice. Request for Support |
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Note: If you prefer to join or renew your membership dues by personal check, please send an email to elpna.national.org and ask for the address of our current Treasurer. After the check is received you will receive the confirmation letter. Please remember to update your Membership Profile on the website.
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