...Running head: HEALING HOSPITAL Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Maria Grand Canyon University Foundations of Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V September 30, 2012 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction In this modern era many hospitals in this country have turned their attention to patient’s feelings and spiritual beliefs along physical signs and symptoms of disease. Spirituality and religion recognizes that a person is more than the physical, cognitive, and emotional self. Judaism and Christianity tend to see the person as a tripartite unity of body, mind, and spirit (Marks, 1999). There are hospitals that are called “Healing Hospitals” where they integrate spirituality and healing in their hospital mission. According to Edelman & Mandle Spirituality is defined “as life purpose and connection with others, affects health”. Healing Hospitals are looked as Healing communities. Zarren indicated that” Healing is a journey toward wholeness or wellness. Community is a body of people living in the same place under the same laws and can also be defined as joint ownership. If a hospital exists as Healing Community, then all members of the community have the opportunity to heal”. This essay will discuss elements of a healing hospital and its connection to spirituality, overcoming barriers and complexities of the hospital environment while establishing a healing atmosphere, and a version of the Bible that adopts the concept of a healing hospital. ...
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...Healing Hospital Healing: adjective tending to cure or restore to health (Merriam-Webster. 2015). When a person hears the word healing they might only associate the word with physical healing. However, when a Nurse hears the word healing they consider not only the physical person, but their spiritual and emotional wellbeing. Until recent years the Medical community has focused on healing the body and neglected other aspects of a person’s health and wellbeing. Thanks to organizations like Healthy People 2010 a better understanding has occurred, in which now the importance of treating the person as a whole is understood. Efforts to make changes in which a patient is treated are in full effect thanks to this better understanding. However, with all these changes coming to the forefront all at once it has become challenging for the Medical Community. The Purpose of this paper is to illustrate the components of a Healing Hospital and the challenges that come along with implementing those components. Supporting the Physical as well as Emotional Wellbeing Practitioners main focus when treating a patient is to acquire a diagnosis, and then treat or cure that diagnosis then send the patient home. This is all well and good however, they could be potentially leaving out treating the emotional wellbeing of a person. Which could lead to the patient recovering but later on returning for medical attention because either the issue has returned or become worse. For example, a young...
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...A Healing Hospital has many great qualities to it and really does improve the healing process of a patient. Love is believed to be the center of healing. A Healing Hospital is to give a loving service to others in need (Chapman, 2010). A Healing Hospital has been forgotten with the growing technology and medications for everything in the hospitals of today. The Healing Hospital needs compassion and skill as well as new technology and medications (Chapman, 2010). Having the honest support of management and leadership is needed to achieve a Healing Hospital and giving the appreciation to the staff providing the care to the patients. There is three main components that the Healing Hospital embraces. The three ideas are a healing physical environment, integration of work design and technology, and a culture of Radical Loving Care. The healing physical environment must provide to the patient and family a loving, nurturing, and compassionate aesthetically pleasing environment (Eberst, 2011). Having these qualities help the patients and families deal with the illness and stress that accompany the illness. It is not only caring for the patient but how we interact and care for the families and caregivers. The medical facility that creates and promotes a quiet atmosphere also help to provide a less stressful and calmer work environment for all physicians, staff members, and promotes and supports healing for patients. Reducing overhead pages, loud cleaning equipment, long hallways...
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...This paper describes the components of a healing hospital and their relationship to spirituality. I will also state the challenges of creating a healing environment in light of the barriers and complexities of the hospital environment. Lastly I will include biblical aspects that I believe support the concept of a healing hospital. First off, I feel components of a healing hospital are compassion, safety, trust, respect, support and creating positive outcomes in people’s lives and health. “A Healing Hospital is a concept where a continuous chain of loving care is carried throughout the organization with kindness and skill from every caregiver (including leaders) to every patient and to one another” (Chapman, 2003, p. 10). The workers need to envelope the spirit and integrate compassion, real love, and selflessness when they are with each individual patient as well as with their co-workers. Caring needs not only be from staff to patients, but also between staff members themselves and so forth. As far as spirituality goes in a healing hospital it begins with the top dog and continues down to upper management, then middle management, then lower management, and down to employees. To give patient care you must possess passion for each patient and their care. To me passion for patient care is having passion for that person fully from their mind, body, and spirit. To also help provide any patient needs whether it be spiritual, physical, or emotional. It is always important to provide...
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...According to medical dictionary, “spiritual healing is the use of spiritual practices, such as prayer, for the purpose of affecting a cure of or an improvement in an illness” (medical dictionary, 2011). Spiritual healings are commonly practiced, and now are greatly encouraged. However, today we have “healing hospitals” that follow the practices of spiritual healing. Erie Chapman and the Baptist Healing Trust envisioned a spiritual healing environment that focused on the healing of mind, body and spirit of patients. They believe that the healing hospital would also be beneficial for hospital employees by creating a productive work environment that supports the morals of employees. Spirituality can be anything in believing in a higher power that is immaterial or in other words, “not of this earth”. Spirituality also means a power that is beyond our five senses: sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste. Spirituality is also looked upon as a powerful component in healing. It is said that in the scriptures such as Peter 1, John and the Book of Psalms support the healing hospital paradigm since it presents an immaterial power that can heal all who believe in the higher power. This Higher power can heal all diseases, emotional distresses, and other disorders. However, the healing hospital paradigms not only care for the illness or disease of a patient but they also care for the emotional needs of the patients. I think that is why Healing Hospitals are so successful and popular. They care...
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...The Healing Hospital Jackie M. Long Grand Canyon University Foundations of Spirituality in Healthcare HLT 310V-0103 Andre Mooney 09/16/2011 The Healing Hospital Fighting for your health when you are not feeling well demands lots of rest, less worry and strain. One needs the love and affection from family and friends. Imagine a hospital that provided all of that. All the patient rooms would be filled with warm and tranquil colors, a separate space for family members to sleep, nurses and physicals who treated all patients with the same dignity and respect and love that they would give to their own family. The hospital grounds would have beautiful gardens so the patients can have a place besides the chapel to pray. Night time in the hospital would be a time for true rest; not a time that patients would be awakened through the night to run a blood test. Patient Education would be provided when it’s convenient for not only the patient but for the family as well. The hospital chaplain minister would be willingly available anytime day or night when needed. Nurses would not only be available for providing medical care but also available for emotional support at those times when the patient just needs someone to talk to. These are just a few of the characteristics that one would anticipate to experience at a Healing Hospital. The Healing Hospital is awarded its accreditation through the Healing Baptist Trust. To acquire this designation, a hospital must embody three components:...
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...Healing Hospital – A Daring Paradigm The healing hospital model is a new paradigm that focuses treatment on both the physical and spiritual needs of patients. In fact, it is intent on ensuring that the patient achieves whole body wellness, and not only disease management. As such, it advances the concept that for healing to be complete, the physical needs should be addressed in concurrence with the patient’s spiritual and emotional needs. With regards to the spiritual needs, the concept draws ideas from the Bible. For instance, 1st Corinthians 12:9 clearly indicates that human beings were given the spirit of healing to meet spiritual needs. To achieve this goal, the concept applies three principal components to include, adopting loving care as a culture, meeting physical needs, and an integrated work technology and design. On the other hand, the concept is faced by challenges that hinder its effectiveness and efficiency (Chapman, 2005). This paper discusses the components and difficulties of a healing hospital as a daring paradigm. As earlier indicated, a healing hospital has three principal components. This is because it lays emphasis on the healing environment, ensuring that care provision is not limited to medication and medical procedures, but also to how the patients and their families are involved in the process of treatment. In essence, the concept introduces a new paradigm whereby the body is believed to constitute a spirit, mind and physical form that must be taken...
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...Running Head:HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM Healing hospital : A Daring Paradibm Ancy Thomas Grand canyon University HLT 310, Spirituality in Health care july, 2012. HEALING HOSPITAL: A Daring Paradigm As I ventured reading about the Healing Hospitals, I became very appreciative and enthusiastic about the very concept. It only made me realize that we have come one full circle to integrate and merge spirituality, alternative and complimentary medicine with traditional practices to enrich patient care. In today’s world that is so commercialized, this integrated approach revitalizes the very intension of the medical mission by considering the subject as a whole person. It does not renounce the modern medicine but recognizes the spiritual components of healing and wholeness. None of us would disagree with the fact that compassionate care is a golden thread for complete cure. Characteristics of Healing Hospital:(components of healing hospitals) ‘Healing Hospital’ is a formalized approach to healing and it has three vital components as follows: 1.A healing physical environment 2.Integration of work design and technology and 3.A culture of radical loving care. This is a holistic approach that meets not only patient’s physical needs but their emotional and spiritual needs as well. As per wftv.com news(Feb, 2008), Parrish Medical Center was the #1 Healing Hospital for third straight year, and its CEO George Mikitarian was awarded too...
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...they are now known to serve many more purposes for humans. Fish skin is found to contain wound healing properties and several beneficial antimicrobials. This is due to their highly evolved immune systems which are starting to become discovered. The nile tilapia, catfish and snakehead murrels are known to possess both the properties stated. Fish skin in general contains omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids along with several other elements which could be used as a skin graft in order to decrease inflammation and time needed to heal a wound. There is new research on sharks and how they evolved to have an immunity against cancer causing genes. Moreover, this research could be used to better the human race and...
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...Faith healing is healing purportedly through spiritual means. Believers assert that the healing of a person can be brought about by religious faith through prayer and/or rituals that, according to adherents, stimulate of a divine presence and power toward healing disease and disability. Claims that prayer, divine intervention, or the ministrations of an individual healer can cure illness have been popular throughout history. Miraculous recoveries have been attributed to many techniques commonly lumped together as "faith healing". It can involve prayer, a visit to a religious shrine, or simply a strong belief in a supreme being. There have been claims that faith can cure blindness, deafness, cancer, AIDS, developmental disorders, anemia, arthritis, corns, defective speech, multiple sclerosis, skin rashes, total body paralysis, and various injuries. Faith Healing claims have been made by many religions and the sick have visited their shrines in hopes of recovery. Christianity: One use of the term faith healing is in reference to the belief of some Christians that God heals people through the power of the Holy Spirit, often involving the laying on of hands. It is also called supernatural healing, divine healing, and miracle healing, among other things. In the Old Testament, Jehovah-Rapha, translated "I am the Lord your Physician" or "I am the Lord who heals you", is one of the seven redemptive names for Jehovah God. Healing in the Bible is often associated with the ministry...
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...Healing Hospital: Grand Canyon University: HLT-310-V 09/18/2015 When one thinks of a hospital, they automatically think of a place that people go to get better or get well if they have fallen ill or are suffering from a lengthy illness. While many people do get better or "get well" while in the hospital, do the patients truly heal? A hospital should not only be a place where wellness occurs, it should be a place of healing. Most hospitals focus on helping their patients overcome an illness or get well, but the best hospitals are those who help their patients to heal. These special hospitals that provide an atmosphere that caters to both the spiritual healing as well as the physical healing of it's patients are referred to as "healing hospitals". A healing hospital is one that helps to heal the patient as a whole person. It is a hospital that goes beyond scientifically treating a specific ailment and aims to heal the patient's physical body, mind, and soul. These hospitals are designed to be aesthetically appealing, quiet, and all around therapeutic. The staff members in these types of hospitals are trained to care not only for the patient but for the patient's family members as well. The importance of a holistic healing approach are encouraged and expected. Laurie Eberst, a registered nurse from Gilbert, Arizona, was instrumental in creating just such a hospital (Eberst 2008). Ms. Eberst's mother had previously been a patient in a hospital...
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...It is uneasy to apologize to one man without hesitation, even after we hurt friends for ours' ambition. However, apology is a sign of communicative competence which plays a vital role in interpersonal relationships. I literally want to show a truth that the apology does not represent weakness, apology is one of the most powerful acts people can do, which will heal pains and differences. I am willing to take my experiences as an example. I had a quiet and gentle deskmate-Yuan, when I was a student in high school. She is one of my friends whom I get in touch with from time to time. As we all know, it is impossible that friends can get along well with together all the time. There is no exception to us. Both of us are working-hard students, but impatience is my most evident defect and our unpleasant experience ascribe to it. One day, we got an ocean of homework so that I even feel a bit anxious. Yuan and I make use of break time to do our best to finish it. Yuan had some questions and hoped I can help her. However, her questions get me annoyed and I lost my temper finally. ‘Leave me alone please!’ Upon the words out, I recollected myself, and wished it unsaid. Yuan kept silent and I knew I scared her. Even when I had problem, the sense of shame prohibits me asking her. Even so, I am unable to put up with the embarrassment between us, therefore, I say sorry to my friend. Confronted with my apology, Yuan's words comfort me at great extents. She said: 'I know you very well and I understand...
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...A Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction It has been well documented that when people are asked where they would prefer to die, the most common answer is, "At home." The sad fact is that most people draw their last breath at a hospital or some other type of health institution (Gomes, Higgins, 2006). The hospital environment has not been traditionally known as a spiritual place that promotes a loving, pleasing and compassionate environment. Although, a hospital is known to provide a cure for many physical ailments, it is not an environment that adequately promotes the ability to deal with a patient's death or the patient's healing process. The differences between the healing process and a cure is that in the Western medicine philosophy, the intention is to eradicate the disease. The patient is seen as a series diagnoses and symptoms, while in the healing process, the intention is that the patient return to a state of holistic wellness and recovery (Gomes, Higgins, 2006). The following few paragraphs will attempt to describe a new concept that hospitals have adopted in order to promote a spiritual place that will effectively create an environment that allows a patient and their family to better deal with the death or the healing of a loved one. Most importantly the environment also includes components of healing and spiritualism that will help meet the demands of tending to their heart as well as their head. The challenges of adopting such a paradigm of healing...
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...The Effect of Prayer on Healing Cjjen1026 Grand Canyon University: HTC 302 December 18, 2011 The Effect of Prayer on Healing In this day and age of a more heightened sense of spirituality, it has come to the attention of the medical community that prayer contributes to many positive outcomes when used for and by sick patients. But the actual effect that prayer has on human beings still remains a mystery, although to some true believers, it is nothing short of miraculous. Prayer and/or meditation have always been an important part of life for anyone that believes in some sort of a higher power or existence. A Buddhist believes in the consciousness as the controller or the entire physical body, and therefore believes that by purifying the mind, they can also cleanse the body of sickness be removing any negative thoughts from their minds. This can also be done by a Lama for the sick person, who will lay their hands on the affected area, use blessed water, and sometimes even blow on the area needing to be healed. This is to transfer the positive flow of energy to the patient, while the patient is clearing their own mind of past negativities. A Christian will pray during sickness for God to heal them and be with them during this hardship, and can also receive prayers and even the laying of hands on them from their pastor or priest. And then the extra prayers from their friends, relatives, and churches can be healing to the patient, whether or not they are...
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...In the world there are many things that can break a person. People can break physically, mentally, and emotionally. The healing process is different for each one. Physical injuries heal easily and without much effort. On the other hand, emotional trauma is difficult to recover from. When someone is broken inside, it takes a lot of work and time in order to heal. In the novel, Ordinary People by Judith Guest, the main character, Conrad Jarrett, is recovering from his suicide attempt. After his brother's death, his life starting falling apart, which led him his attempt. After spending a month in the hospital, he finally comes home and that's when he starts his journey to recovery. Throughout the novel, the reader can clearly tell what events...
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