Faith Community nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as well as on the promotion of holistic health and prevention or minimization of illness within the context of a faith community and the wider community. The goals of FCN are as follows:

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• Protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities;

• Prevention of illness and injury;

• Facilitation of healing; 

• Alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses; and

• Advocacy in the context of the values, beliefs, and practices of a faith community, such as a church, congregation, parish, synagogue, temple, mosque, or faith-based community agency.

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From: American Nurses Association's Faith Community Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition.