...Running head: HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Lisa Killeen Grand Canyon University: HLT 310V July 13, 2013 Healing Hospital: a Daring Paradigm Although the physical aspects of patient care are most easily measured, the spiritual dimensions are most often overlooked by caregivers. Healing hospitals have developed a paradigm to address spiritual concerns, which studies have shown to significantly improve patient outcomes and satisfaction. A healing hospital provides health care to patients through application of a healing model with three components that, most importantly, ensure that the patient is surrounded by love. According to Chapman (2007), hospitals have adapted a formal approach to healing consisting of three separate components: the integration of technology, a physical facility design that promotes healing, and a culture of radical love and care. Spiritual healing is not considered to be of traditional pharmacotherapy approach, therefore, the barriers in creating this environment in today’s hospitals are many. The purpose of this paper is to explore these three areas and their relationships, as wells as, barriers to the holistic healing of mind, body, and soul. Relationship to Spirituality It is documented by Allen and Crouch (2005), that spirituality as a subject and the need to address patients’ spiritual needs...
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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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...Healing Hospital Introduction Health care delivery has always centered on holistic approach to patient care and all nursing education revolves around this concept of comprehensive nursing care and delivering a holistic nursing care to the patient. Addressing the patient as a whole not only means curing his disease but also respecting his social, physical, cultural and spiritual values. Healing hospitals are built keeping this in mind. Every human being is religious in one way or the other and leans on to the hope that his God will surely give him deliverance from this physical ailment’s hospital environment should facilitate this. Components of a Healing Hospital According to Chapman 2007 the healing hospital is a concept that more than anything else, it supports the culture of caring. Therefore love is the core of healing. A healing hospital is built on the olden belief that love is at the center of healing. The Healing Hospital represents a vision of true quality built on the most important belief of human existence- loving one another (Chapman, 2007). Their idea is supporting a strong background of caring for their patients and caregivers. Healing Hospitals employ the three symbols of loving services which are: 1. A Golden Thread that symbols faith in god to represent positive tradition of healing, 2. A pair of intersecting circles that symbolizes hope that flow into and out hearts when we experience loving encounters 3. The red heart that symbolizes love. Our...
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...Running head: Healing Hospital 1. Introduction Healing hospital is a place or rather a holistic and integrated environment where "Healing will take place more quickly, thoroughly, and meaningfully" with the entire staff ".... charged with the promotion of healing by creating an overall healing environment" (Jacobs, 2009). In essence therefore the healing hospital differs from the conventional hospital in that it provides for a multitude of levels of advancing the healing process; which includes, the community, the staff and a variety of technical and design aspects for placing healing into an advantageous context. Therefore, a healing hospital will provide not only for the physical aspects of healing but will also make provision for the psychological, social and spiritual aspects that integrate the various components into a comprehensive and inclusive process. In this sense the healing hospital has been described as an overall healing environment 2. Components of a Healing Hospital The healing hospital has been associated with the vision of a "Culture of Health" and with a more daring and innovative approach to healthcare than is usually the norm in our complex and often overly specialized and compartmentalized world (MCDH Adopts “Healing Hospital” Wellness Program). One of the central components of this culture of health is education. The education process is used in an integrated way to assist patients in the hospital as well...
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...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Catherine Fritzlan Grand Canyon University HLT 302 October 1, 2012 Dr. Sunshine Weeks Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm The Healing Hospital paradigm is a model that focuses on the holistic approach to health care. It is about loving care and provisions to those that seek recovery and wellness for the whole body on a day-to-day basis. However, the healing model is in contrary to the cure model used in the traditional hospitals that emphasize more on the eradication of illness or sickness through new technology and pharmaceuticals. The healing health care is focused on the return to health and whole being rather than the focus on curing illness and disease. The healing concept advances the idea that aside from addressing physical demands and needs, the holistic approach should also be focused and sensitive to the emotional and spiritual needs of the patient. There are three key components to a healing hospital paradigm, which consist of a healing physical environment, an integrated work design and technology, and a “culture” of radical loving care based (Eberst, 2008). Many challenges will be experienced in the traditional hospital environment when in attempt to implementing a holistic healing approach. This paper will bring to light the components of the healing hospital and the many encounters that are involved in the continuous effort of caring to each and every patient in a healing...
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...head: Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Gift N Onwunali Grand Canyon University: HLT-310V 4/40/2012 Introduction Many people compare healing to cure. In an effort to fully describe the components of “Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm”, how this “Paradigm” might influence our methodology in rendering care and the relationship of the concept to spirituality, it is important that I explain two key terminologies “healing” and “paradigm. Healing is restoration to a maximum health potential. Restoration does not necessarily have to bring something to its original state of affairs. Rather, the functionality can be used for its desired purpose. “When we heal people, we very often notice that the disease may not disappear. Yet, somehow we have the feeling that we did help that person” (Quanten, P. 2002). A paradigm means a certain way of thinking about something that is generally accepted. It can also mean a standard, or a routine method of achieving a result. Sometimes we may declare words such as “model”, “example” and “pattern” as synonymous with paradigm (Swarup, D. 2011). With that, we can then say that the concept of “Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm” is a concept of healing in a revolutionary pattern of care that is not our usual and traditional method of caring but generally accepted. Young and Koopsen indicated that the healing hospital paradigm is a holistic concept that that involves more than just curing a disease process. In the Healing Hospital...
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...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Marti Manko Grand Canyon University: HLT-310V 06/16/2013 Traditionally, western medicine, religion and spirituality have always been connected. Recently, faith-based influences on medical practice have been developed to reflect the importance of acknowledging that spirituality and religion are an integral part of healing (Galanter, Glickman, Dermatis, Tracy and McMahon, 2008). The term “healing” is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word “haelen”, meaning “to make whole”. One method of comprehending this term is to think of a harmonious blend of mind, body and spirit (Zborowsky and Kreitzer, 2008). The human spirit is what strengthens an individual and what enhances healthy coping mechanisms when an individual encounters stressors, challenges or illness (Dunn, 2010). Many patients possess spiritual feelings and beliefs related to their capability to cope with illness. Acknowledging patients’ spiritual necessities in the healthcare environment fosters satisfaction with caregivers and increased compliance with care plans (Galanter, Glickman, Dermatis, Tracy and McMahon, 2008). Healing differs from curing, which implies problem solving, eliminating disease and diminishing symptoms (Zborowsky and Kreitzer, 2008). The purpose of this paper will define the components of healing hospitals in relationship to spirituality, challenges of creating a healing environment and a biblical passage that supports the healing hospital concept. The...
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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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...Running head: JEAN WATSON'S THEORY 1 Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring Robyn Waters NUR/403 August 29, 2011 Stephanie Merck JEAN WATSON'S THEORY 2 Abstract Jean Watson, professor, nursing theorist, developed her theory of Transpersonal Caring from her own experiences of nursing and information she received during her higher education years. Her idea was to bring attention to professional nurses. Nursing is becoming more interdisciplinary and involving. Watson's theory is centered to subjective inner healing and a person's experiences. These are achieved by carative factors. Carative factors is the caring process, not the curing process. Watson established ten carative factors. Along with these carative factors, Watson identified seven assumptions. Along with the assumptions, Watson describes the nurse's role. The primary nurse's role is to establish a caring relationship with his or her patient. This can be achieved by caring moments. Moments that transform the patient and nurse connecting them together. Watson classified human needs like Maslow classified his hierarchy needs. As a nurse I contemplate on how I provide my care. I am there to help my patient's meet their human needs. JEAN WATSON'S THEORY ...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Understanding the self and being self aware have a huge significance to the care given to patients. Every person is made up of many different experiences, beliefs, mental, physical and spiritual elements, age, gender and background. When put in the context of a healthcare professional these elements have a direct effect on patient care and outcomes. When the healthcare professional understands the self it assists in providing an optimal outcome. When we are aware of our beliefs and positions in the world we can be cautious of how we approach a certain patient population and ultimately the care they receive. Professional presence, personality, mindfulness and healing environments will be discussed along with my personal response. Professional Presence Era I versus Era III As the western world has advanced in medicine Larry Dossey has identified three eras to give context to how medicine has advanced in function. (Koerner 2011). In Era I, as science was being incorporated to medicine, it was noted that health and illness was purely physical in nature and treatment. The methods of treating an illness focused entirely on the body, for example, administering medications or performing surgery. Health was understood as an absence of disease. The physical nature of the disease was all that was taken into account. The idea of consciousness was limited to the chemical, anatomic and physiological location in the brain. (Koerner 2011). Era I is very...
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...thoughts to how this phenomenon occurs within an individual person. There are many debates and discussions on how a therapist can bring a client to realize they are a self-healer. One technique used to engage clients into enabling self-healing is reflective questioning. There questions both provide therapeutic intervention, but also give clients autonomy of finding the solution within themselves. The...
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...Running Head: THE HEALING HOSPITAL The Healing Hospital Jefferson, Alice Grand Canyon University: NRS 310V June 24, 2012 Thesis: The Healing Hospital employs a holistic approach to patient care. Nurses must be sensitive to the physical, spiritual, emotional, and religious beliefs of the client. The nurse should plan and implement competent care to the client and their families. A healing hospital exists beyond bricks, mortar and glass. A healing physical environment, the integration of work design and technology, and a culture of radical loving care are the key components of a healing hospital ( Eberst, L. 2008). A healing physical environment: The first component of a Healing Hospital is the physical environment. The physical environment in which a patient is being treated should be conducive to the healing process. A good tranquil environment fosters the patient’s recovery process. A healing physical environment takes in consideration not only how to care for the patient, but also the families and how caregivers and employers interacts with them (Eberst, L. 2008). For healing to take place, a hospital needs to provide a quiet environment that allows patients to sleep. Cells regeneration takes place during sleep, and gives the body an opportunity to repair...
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...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Grand Canyon University Foundations of Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V April 25, 2013 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Hospitals where patients and family are not only healed physically but wholly are referred to as healing hospitals. In other words, the idea of a healing hospital is a holistic approach to treatment which includes meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patients and families (Eberst, 2008). The concept of healing hospital is based on the belief dating back to ancient times that love forms the core of healing (Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, 2013). The hallmark of a healing hospital is the creation of an environment that reduces stress and other health risk factors and addressing the physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual concerns of the patients and family resulting in the healing of body, mind and soul. Unlike the traditional hospital, the healing hospital has incorporated a strong healing culture of compassionate care as well as the use of technology to assure the security and privacy of the patient and promote healing (Eberst, 2008). There are three key components to a healing hospital. First is a healing physical environment which is a combination of a beautiful and desiring environment with compassionate care (Eberst, 2008). The design of the hospital is one with quiet environment to remove stress and promote sleep which in turn promotes healing through cell regeneration. The...
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...treatments. Using Goffman’s model, I will illustrate a treatment facility that has been scientifically proven to be an effective treatment method. By examining certain totalistic features of mental health settings and the therapeutic benefits they provide, I have explored an “ideal” setting that I believe would aid in the healing...
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...Running head: HEALING HOSPITALS Healing Hospitals Shari Wilson Grand Canyon University HLT-310V September 23, 2012 Healing Hospitals Spirituality and healing hospitals; what are they and how are they related to one another? Is every hospital considered a healing hospital and if not why? The purpose of this paper is to identify what spirituality means to this writer, to describe the components of a healing hospital and their relationship to one another, and to describe the challenges that hospitals today face in creating this healing environment. Spirituality can be defined as “the ongoing endeavor to grow in our relationship with God” (Pable, 2012). Spirituality is a considered a venture and not a set of ideas or principles. Spiritualty is a way of living that includes choices that are action-oriented. It gives direction to ones thinking and decision-making process and the actions that you take and it is something that is never ending. Spirituality is not the same for every individual. For some, spirituality has to do with ones relationship with God with the ultimate goal in broadening that personal relationship with him. For others, it may mean simply the challenge of reaching beyond ones current potential. Spirituality is something that is personal, but it is also rooted in being connected with others and with the world around them. It's the way you find meaning, hope, comfort, and inner...
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