...I have read None of These Diseases in its entirety for this semester for BY 206. None of These Diseases is a book that explains how the Bible lay out certain guidelines that could help mankind maintain and better healthcare. Dr. McMillen and Dr. Stern reveal to people the secrets of health through the Bible. The book is divided into five different sections explaining how diseases affect different areas of life. Diseases affect source, physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual wholeness. The source of wholeness is the understanding of where a disease came from and how it was spread. Egyptians and doctors used to believe that a wound should rot a little in order to heal. This was the wrong belief. In Exodus the Lord explains that if the people of Israel would not follow the ways of the Egyptians the people would be healed. The Egyptians used to apply manure and worm’s blood to wounds to make it pus. The Egyptians believed in the wrong source of healing. The errors of mankind are clearly shown in history. It was not only in ancient times but also in recent centuries. In May 1847 Vienna, Austria was the leading medical center of the world. One out of six pregnant women die of labor fever on the delivery table. No one knew the mode of transmission of this disease except a doctor by the name of Ignaz Semmelweis. In the 1800s, doctors and nurses did not wash their hands when transferring from the morgue to the delivery room. After submerging their hands in pus and blood during...
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...different from being cured. The definitions aren't that different apparently. Heal is defined as: To restore to health or soundness; cure. To set right; repair: To restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness. v.intr. To become whole and sound; return to health. Cure is defined as: Restoration of health; recovery from disease. A method or course of medical treatment used to restore health. An agent, such as a drug, that restores health; a remedy. To become whole and sound, to restore to health is, I believe, what we as health care providers strive for for our patients. What has often surprised me is how little becoming whole and sound looks like what I would have expected when I graduated from medical school or was new in practice. What I thought I was to do as a doctor was to cure disease. Sometimes, in my experience, disease can be cured, but the person is not returned to wholeness. Take for example a patient who has been diagnosed with cancer. Even in the event that they are cured of the cancer, their relationships with family or friends may remain sick, not whole. I would have done my job or what I thought my job was but in many ways, my patient would not still be restored to wholeness. I have experienced heartbreak with patients with mental illness who have recovered or become stable in their mental illness, fighting their way back to health only to find their spouse or partner has had enough and wants a divorce. I can see both sides of the issue but...
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...MYRA ESTRIN LEVINE NUR-240 Professional Transitions June 7, 2011 Myra Estrin Levine is known as a Nursing theorist for creating “The Conservation Model”. Levine obtained a diploma in 1944 and attained her B.S in 1949 and completed M.S.N in 1962 from Wayne State University. She served as a consultant to hospitals and schools of nursing. She also provided a teaching structure for medical-surgical nursing and established “The Four Conservation Principles”. “She explicitly linked health to the process of conservation model views health as one of its essential components” (Levine, 1991). The three major concepts of the Conservation Model are 1) wholeness, 2) adaption, and 3) conservation. “Whole, health, hale all are derivations of the Anglo- Saxon word hal” (Levine, 1973, p.11). Myra Levine based her use of wholeness as an open system, which meant exploring the parts of the whole. The next concept according to Levine was adaption, “a process of change whereby the individual retains his integrity within the realities of his internal and external environment” (Levine, 1973, p.11). This process allows in creating an economy where there is safety for the individual/patient. There are three characteristics of adaption: 1) Historicity, 2) Specificity, and 3) Redundancy. Levine states that adaptive patterns are developed and hidden in the individuals’ genetic code and that redundancy means that there is an option for the individual to achieve adaption, which is fail – safe option...
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...one’s personal philosophy to nursing is significant. One’s philosophy directly affects the interpersonal relationship and care given to patients. For the purpose of this paper, the author will reflect and incorporate her nursing philosophy with the four nursing metaparadigms: person, environment, health and nursing, with the Roy Adaptation Model (RAM) and compare similarities’ and differences. Personal Philosophy The author’s personal philosophy is seeded in spirituality and seeing the world as interconnected with a divine source where all things are possible. She attempts to integrate the core concepts of her philosophy: intuition, altruism, holism, empathy, knowledge, compassion and advocacy into the nursing process. The author will define and demonstrate her nursing philosophy as applied to the metaparadigms. The person is viewed as a unique individual and energetic being (spirit) within a physical and integrated body system connected to a higher supreme source; environment: the internal and external state that influences the spiritual and physical person; health: a physical and mental state that is interdependent and works consciously and subconsciously to maintain wholeness; Nurse: the advocate: obligated to put aside personal philosophies and belief concepts if not beneficial or congruent to the persons preferred course of action; empowering to the person, to...
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...how Watson’s caring theory can be applied to clinical practice. Describe the person through Watson’s caring lens. Describe the person’s health through Watson’s caring lens. Describe nursing through Watson’s caring lens. Key Words: Watson’s caring theory, clinical caritas processes, transpersonal caring relationships, caring occasion, clinical application of Watson’s theory Abstract As most health care systems around the world are undergoing major administrative restructuring, we expose ourselves to the risk of dehumanizing patient care. If we are to consider caring as the core of nursing, nurses will have to make a conscious effort to preserve human caring within their clinical, administrative, educational, and/or research practice. Caring must not be allowed to simply wither away from our heritage. To help preserve this heritage, caring theories such as those from Jean Watson, Madeleine Leininger, Simone Roach, and Anne Boykin are vital. Through this continuing education paper we will learn the essential elements of Watson’s caring theory and explore an example of a clinical application of her work. Introduction The changes in the health care delivery systems around the world have intensified nurses’ responsibilities and workloads. Nurses must now deal with patients’ increased acuity and complexity in regard to their health care situation. Despite such hardships, nurses must find ways to preserve their caring practice and Jean Watson’s caring theory...
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...Church Health Center in Memphis Tennessee; America’s largest faith-based clinic. Dr. Morris is also the associate minister at St. John's United Methodist Church in Memphis. Dr. Morris’s ministries provide health care for the working poor and uninsured in Memphis and promote both a healthy physical body and a healthy spiritual body. Dr. Morris as a pastor and a medical doctor has written a new book, Health Care You Can Live With: Discover Wholeness in Body and Spirit in which be provides a unique view of the church and the medical industry and how they can each be a place of healing. He is a firm believer that health care through the government will not work, but has proven through his Church Health Center in Memphis that there is a real way for health care to work. See figure 1 in the appendix for a picture of Dr. Morris. Focus on the Leader The GOOD Dr. Morris’s leadership of the Church health Center in Memphis is outstanding. When the governments’ health care program is incapable of functioning effectively, from Dr. Morris’s book, Health Care You Can Live With, (see Figure 2 in the appendix for a view of the book’s cover), we have learned that his nonprofit health care center is treating 55,000 patients a year with only a 13 million dollar budget. This is equivalent to 100 million dollars a year that the government would spend for the same services provided by Dr. Morris’s Church health Center. The Church health Center...
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...COUNSELLING FOR PHYSICALLY ILL For Christian sickness is a challenge to faith and service. Personal problems and temptations may turn people away from God’s plan for their lives and sickness is one of them. The English word ‘health’ comes from the root term ‘whole’ which means completely sound or in good condition. Thus health means soundness or wholeness of body which covers the smooth normal functioning of our organs, emotional and mental wholeness as well as spiritual well being, welfare and salvation. Health relates to the whole personality. Healing ministry is aim to bring wholeness to every aspect of a person’s life and personality. Sickness is now normal thing in our day to day life. We can’t see many people that not affect any diseases in their life time. (Birth to death).Few children born to this world as sick one. Some diseases are chronic and end their life. Diseases are bringing not only physical but also mental and emotional problems. We...
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...The Epidemiology and Pathology of Leukemia as it Relates to Nursing Roles Abiodun Salisu Coppin State University 10/20/15 The human body undergoes many changes during one’s lifetime. Interactions between the physical environment and internal systems account for many of the changes that constitute health and illness. The presence of disunity among any of the body’s organ systems presents an opportunity for disease to occur. The nursing profession focuses on promoting and achieving optimal health (Ventura, Mendes, Fumincelli & Trevizan, 2015). Nursing has evolved to respond to the needs of the population it serves and the health system it operates within (Ventura, Mendes, Fumincelli & Trevizan, 2015). Nurses have also...
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...Define Caring Moment Joy Brock Define Caring Moment Define caring moment late in the evening when the hallways in the hospital are empty. Only hearing the hospital housekeeping personal due their tireless work to shine the floors. Sitting waiting for my next client to be placed in my empty gurney I waited. My client came to me directly from triage jaundiced in appearance and belly as big as a watermelon. Not being able to support his own weight the triage nurse and I assisted him to gurney. His wife looked aged before her time. We struggled to undress him noticing his lower limbs where weeping from the edema. His wife had cut his socks laterally in half to make them semi fit his feet. Attempting to arouse him she kept calling out his name. He responded starring off into the abyss by calling out for her name asking if she was still by his bedside. An over whelming feeling of reality came to light. My client had been living in the streets with his wife up and till that moment. My thoughts at first where that he was an alcoholic or drug addict living with end stage liver cirrhosis. Drawing my own conclusions on what had landed my client at this late hour into the emergency room. I began to ascertain information on his medical history. My client had acquired hepatitis B from a blood transfusion in the early 80’s. Suffered from sickle cell anemia all his life and had debilitating arthritis that prevented him from working now. Define Caring Moment Had...
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...Table of content page Introduction 2 1 First-order cybernetics principles 2 2 Second-order cybernetics 4 3 Perception of reality 5 4 Health and pathology 6 5 The role and function of therapy 7 6 Ethical concerns 8 7 Integration of first- and second-order cybernetics 8 Conclusion 9 Reference list 10 A comparison of first- and second-order cybernetics Introduction When considering psychology most think of individual psychology. But in more recent years, systems theory or cybernetics as a school of thought in psychology has grown in its influence in the field. Within cybernetics there are two different approaches, namely first-order or simple cybernetics and second-order cybernetics. What student hopes to achieve with this assignment is a better understanding of these two by exploring what sets them apart. 1 First-order cybernetics principles In describing first-order cybernetics, Becvar and Becvar (2014) use the following principles to highlight its fundamental assumptions. 1.1 Recursion People and events do not exist in isolation but within a context, more specifically within the relationships in which they are involved in. Recursion refers to the fact that all elements involved in a relationship influence each other as they are constantly interacting. 1.2 Feedback It is the part of recursion that allows a system to correct itself by using the information given about past behaviours in order to make...
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...Association Code of Ethics Veronika Babuts NURS 3540, Ethics in Health Care North Park University February 2, 2012 Personal Reflection on ANA Code of Ethics American Nurses Association (ANA) has developed the Code of Ethic for nurses to establish ethical standards and to guide them in decision making. The Code of Ethics is derived from many ethical theories and reflects the ethical and moral aspects of the nursing profession. After reading the ANA Code of Ethics, I took some time to think about its meaning and how it affects me. Even though, this was the first time I have read the Code of Ethics in its wholeness, I found that I abided by it over the course of 7 years being a professional nurse in the U.S. I abided by the code without knowing it, because it represents the universal ethics and morals accepted in most parts of civilized world. As a nurse, I understand the imperativeness of following the morals and ethics in every aspect of my profession as well as personal life. For all nurses in every part of the world it is important to provide ethical, high-quality care for patients, while being fully aware of all aspects of care and surroundings. It is vitally important to respond appropriately to the patient’s cultural beliefs, and values. Having principles and forming expectations help improve the quality of patient-centered care and communication. I was grateful to read the ANA Code of Ethics in its wholeness as it helped me to organize my own beliefs and values and...
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...presence is one of the most important characteristics of a nurse. It is a quality that makes the nursing profession special. Professional presence is a combination of characteristics and behaviors, which includes being competent, reliable, empathetic, and respectful of others. Professional Presence The foundation of mechanical or local model (Era I) is entirely based on a belief that health and illness, are solely physical in nature, where mind is merely the result of the fundamental physical or chemical processes in the brain (Dossey, 1999). A person is being treated on a completely physical level where sickness is being controlled by specific substances. Providing physical therapies and treatments is in the core of this model. Besides the traditional use of drugs and surgery it also includes acupuncture, homeopathy, and the use of herbs (Dossey, 1999). According to this mechanistic model, being human means that all health related problems are physical where the human body is treated as having a finite cure. In contrast, transpersonal or nonlocal model (Era III) includes many various ways that health and illness is interpreted and treated. In this model consciousness is not tied to a single person, but to that individual’s physical environment, social network and the cosmos (Dossey, 1999). Some religious patients perceive illness is an indicator of sin, so for them healing can be brought about by spiritual and religious interventions. This era arguably presents the best overall...
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...described in the metaparadigm, and is defined as “the unity of mind-body-spirit” (Watson, 2008, p. 246). The second concept is health, and represents the overall physical and mental aspects, as well as social functioning that patients need in order to obtain genuine holistic care (Petiprin, 2015, Philosophy and Science of Caring section, para. 6). The third concept is environment, which Watson said that caring was not instilled from generation to generation, but was established in a unique way by which culture played a role in coping with its environment, and accepts people for who they really are, or may become (Petiprin, 2015, Philosophy and Science of...
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...Watson's Theory of Human Caring Aubrey Thomas NUR/403 February, 18th 2013 Stephanie Merck Watson's Theory of Human Caring A few weeks ago I was assigned to provide care for Mrs Tevez an 82yrs old female of Spanish origin who spoke very little English. Mrs.Tevez had a cervical fracture that resulted from a fall at home. Her admission to hospital was for immobilization with a cervical collar and bed rest pending possible surgery. She was considered a high risk patient because of the possibility of serious complications from her cervical fracture. It is amazing how a caring moment can have such a remarkable effect on persons who are part of that moment. A caring moment is the human care transaction that takes place as a consequence of the human care process. This occasion is where a contact is established between the subjective world of the nurse and recipient of care. This shared moment has the potential to touch the higher spiritual self or soul, and thus transpersonal human caring may occur. Transpersonal caring relationships consist of connections that embrace the spirit or soul of the other through the processes of full, authentic, caring and healing attention in the moment (Watson, 1988). Transpersonal caring implies that the nurse consciously focuses on self and other within interpersonal exchanges that are grounded in the present moment, while at the same time going beyond the moment and opening to new possibilities. The nurse values the existence of the other's...
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...In the late 1800s Florence Nightingale established the foundation of nursing ethics (?????). Making care of the patient the foremost important ethical duty of the patient (??????). As health care today has become more complex and challenging the fundamental principles of Florence Nightingale’s ethical principles are still in use today (??????). Over the years the adoption of more formal codes of ethics, the American Nurses Association and the International Council of Nurses, were established to guide nurses in everyday choices of care (BOOK>>>>). Understanding the fundamental necessity of professional codes of ethics in nursing is an essential skill. Therefore, this paper will discuss and compare the importance of the American Nurses Association...
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