. >> reporter: maureen daniels, herself a former parish nurse, now trains nurses to work in faith communitieslooking after the whole person. >> we're not just our heart or our liver or our kidneys, you know. we have -- there's the person that's there, and part of being a person is that whole dimension of spirit that makes us who we are. and you can't break it down into pieces the way we've been doing, you know. it really needs to be, you know, who is this whole person? what is their life about? >> come in, susan. have a seat. >> reporter: donna smith-pupillo coordinates a network of parish nurses in and around st. louis. some work mostly with the poor and uninsured or with young families. but they all share the same sense of purpose. >> parish nursing is about the intentional care of the spirit and bringing back in for all of us a sense of wholeness that embraces both the mind, the body, and the spirit and that it's doable for almost all congregations, synagogues, and mosques. it is doable for almost all congregations. it is doable. it's not something that has to be paid. you can use voluntee