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Nurses Christian Fellowship

Judith A. Shelly

NCF Spiritual Formation and Prayer

Experience

Courses Taught

Workshops & Seminars

Honors & Awards

Professional Experience

Nurses Christian Fellowship (NCF), Publications Director
Responsible for planning and developing written and multimedia materials relating to spiritual care, ethics and professional development from a Christian perspective, 1992 to present
Director, NCF Press

Publishing books and resources that enable nurses to view nursing through the eyes of faith, 2002 to present

Editor, Journal of Christian Nursing

Responsible for planning, developing and editing a 56 page quarterly professional journal, 1990 to February 2004.
Adjunct Faculty Yonsei University

http://nurse.yonsei.ac.kr/ Seoul, Korea, 2001

Adjunct Faculty North Park University

www.northpark.edu Chicago, 1998

NCF Resource Developer
Writing materials, see "publications", 1987-1990 & 1976-1981
NCF Eastern Area Director
Supervised five field staff members, Fund raising, 1985-1987
NCF Associate Director of Resources, 1981-1984
NCF Campus Staff, 1970-1974
Correspondent
Writing occasional articles Pottstown (PA) Mercury, 1987
Staff Nurse, Lankenau Hospital

Charge nurse, 1974-1976 www.mainlinehealth.org/lh

Family Practice Nurse
Patient assessment, direct care and teaching, Springfield, OH, 1967-1970
Staff Nurse, Mercy Medical Center

Night charge nurse, Springfield, OH, 1966-1967 http://216.68.156.42/regions/springfield/content/show_facility.asp?facility_id=36

Courses Taught

Theology of Caring and Health (3 sem. hr. graduate course)

North Park University, Chicago
(with John Weborg and Joan Zetterlund) August 1998
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
(with Arlene Miller) July 2001

Basic Parish Nurse Preparation Course:
Sections on theology of nursing and spiritual care

Fellowship Deaconry, Liberty Corner, NJ,
(With Arlene Miller and Marabel Kersey) April 2001 & 2002

Professional Activities: Workshops and Seminars

The Knowledge Base of Nursing:

NCFI Conference, plenary presentation, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 4, 2000 with Arlene Miller Korean NCF Summer Conference Suwon, Korea, July 10-12, 2001

When Paradigms Shift: A Worldviews Approach:

BriahLGH Center for Bioethics Conference,
plenary presentation Lincoln, Nebraska, October 13, 1999

Putting It Into Practice...A Health Ministry in Your Church:

One-day workshop sponsored by Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, and St. Joseph's Medical Center Pottstown, PA Reading, PA October 1999

Toward a Theology of Nursing:

Paper presentation at the Wheaton Theology Conference Wheaton, April 1999

Spirituality and Spiritual Care in Nursing Practice:

One-day workshop sponsored by Pottstown Memorial Medical Center and St. Joseph's Medical Center, Pottstown, PA
Reading, PA, October 1998 Sacred Heart Hospital Allentown, PA, November 17, 1999

Walking with Patients through Pain:

NCF Brunch Chicago area, September 1998

Values That Give Us Courage: Contemplation, Community, Compassion:

Three one-hour plenary sessions at the North American Conference for Nurses, "Jesus Christ: the Hope of Nursing," San Diego, California, June 1998

Working Toward Shalom:

Paper presentation Lindeboom Instituut, Ede, The Netherlands, May 1998 Paper presentation at Trinity International University conference co-sponsored by Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Christian Medical Society, Nurses Christian Fellowship and Christian Legal Society, "The Changing Face of Health Care,", July 1997

Spiritual Care:

Nurses Evangelical Fellowship Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992 Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 1988 Eastern College School of Nursing, St. Davids, PA, 1988 Korean Christian Nurses Association, Seoul, Korea, 1987

Christian Ethics in Nursing:

Nurses Evangelical Fellowship Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, July 1992 Korean Christian Nurses Association Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 1992 Messiah College NCF Conference, Harrisburg, PA, April 1992 North American Conference for Nurses, Northwestern College, Minneapolis, MN, June 1991 NCF Summer Conference, Cedar Campus, MI, June 1989 Nurses Christian Fellowship International Conference, Eastern College,St. Davids, PA, July 1988

Writing for Publication:

Nurses Christian Fellowship Summer Conferences, 1983, 84, 85, 90, 92, 97, 2002 North American Conference for Nurses, Samford University, Birmingham, AL, 1994 Nurses Christian Fellowship International Conference, Hong Kong, 1996 Sigma Theta Tau Conference, James Madison University, 2004

Bringing Good News to Today's Nursing Culture:

Nurses Christian Fellowship Leadership Conference, Samford University, 1994

Knowing God in Nursing: Living the Truth:

Nurses Christian Fellowship Summer Conference, Cedar Campus, Michigan, 1995 Lutheran Theological Seminary, Nurses Conference, Gettysburg (PA), 1995

Spirituality: Reaching Toward the Unseen: with Arlene Miller

North Central Pennsylvania Nursing Education Consortium, May 9, 1996 District 16 Pennsylvania Nurses Association program, Oct. 1996

Christian Concepts in Curriculum Development: with Arlene Miller

Nurses Christian Fellowship International Conference, Hong Kong, 1996 Korean Nurses Christian Fellowship Summer Conference, Suwon, Korea, 1996

Health Ministries: A Dual Degree Program for Graduate Nursing Education:

Poster session at the Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing/Sigma Theta Tau Annual Nursing Lectureship, November 1997 Presented at the Westberg Parish Nurse Symposium, September 1999

Honors and Awards

Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society for Nurses www.nursingsociety.org

Lambda Kappa Chapter, 1998

Hoh Award

Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 1975

Aid Association for Lutherans Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 1975

Outstanding Young Women of America, 1980

Who's Who in American Nursing, 1986 present

Evangelical Press Association www.gospelcom.net/epa

Higher Goals Award (First Place), Editoria, 1992

Evangelical Press Association

Award of Merit, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002

Evangelical Press Association

Award of Excellence, 2001

Evangelical Press Association

Higher Goals Award (Third Place), 1991, 1996