...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm When I think of care giving I think of support, compassion, and making a positive difference in the health and lives of individuals. My philosophy of care giving involves passion for patient care. What I mean by passion for patient care is being passionate about providing high-quality, accessible, value-driven care that encompasses the whole person from body, mind, and spirit, as well as being committed to meeting the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all patients. My philosophy seems to go hand and hand with the paradigms of a Healing Hospital. According to Chapman (2007), the Healing Hospital is a concept that more than anything else, supports culture of caring. Therefore, love is the center of healing. I will further discuss the paradigm of the Healing Hospital, consider the ramifications and challenges of the paradigm, and evaluate the reasonableness of the paradigm. A healing hospital is built on the ancient tradition that love is at the center of healing. The Healing Hospital represents a vision of true excellence built on the most important principle of human existence- loving one another (Chapman, 2007, p. 10-11). Their concept is supporting a strong culture of caring for their patients and caregivers. Healing Hospitals use the three symbols of loving services which are: a Golden Thread that symbols faith in god to represent positive tradition of healing, a pair of intersecting circles that symbolizes hope that flow into...
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...Philosophy of Nursing Lindsay Prestwood, RN Georgia Southern University Spring 2012 NURS 3139 Philosophy of Nursing A philosophy is a person’s value statement composed of that person’s ideologies and characteristics. It is my personal opinion that a philosophy is strongly influenced by a person’s upbringing, their life experiences and is an evolving moral belief in an area of their life. There are differing opinions and statements that can define a philosophy. My philosophy in nursing is built on a firm belief that I should always maintain integrity, honesty and a heart to help health the sick and those in need, while laying aside my own personal biases do only what is right of a prudent nurse. Being a strong and prudent nurse is one that esteems the patient’s needs above their own needs. Nursing is the foundation to the practice of medicine in our nation. I will share one definition of a philosophy according to Yoder-Wise: A nursing philosophy statement outlines the vision, values, and beliefs about the practice of nursing and the provision of patient care within the organization. The philosophy statement is used to guide the practice of nursing in the various nursing units on a daily basis. (Yoder-Wise, 2011, 282) As I stated in my original philosophy, being a strong and prudent nurse who places a patient’s needs as top priority is the part of what encompasses my philosophy of nursing. Concepts and Beliefs When I stated in my philosophy that one must place the...
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...Necessary Conditions For Leadership (Many) Sufficient Condition For Leadership (Single) E F F E C T I V E Behavior Values & Beliefs Philosophy Of Life L E A D E R In Life you will never get what you don’t want; You may be able to get what you desire Fig 1 Emergent Model of Leadership Given above is an emergent model of Leadership, this model operates at the philosophy level where the underlying thought is given at the base of the model. The left hand side of the model points to the necessary and sufficient conditions as inputs into making an effective leader . ( We shall explore later to see what may be these conditions ) . The right hand side of the model tries to articulate what goes on inside the effective leader with his philosophy of life being at the core of his operations as an effective leader . Values and beliefs form the next circle and these are manifested in behavioral attributes. With this model at a single point in time we will explore leadership over the time continuum . Deepak Pandit EFPM 08 While it is possible to consider several necessary conditions of leadership the following three emerge as clear candidate’s for inclusion in the above list in the left hand side of this model. • • • Followership Competency Vision The sufficient condition for this model is related to the core philosophy of life that the leader operates on and this is at a spiritual plane. We cannot have an effective leader...
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...My Personal Philosophy Name Institution Date Personally I believe there is no other better calling in this life than to establish and develop good relationship with Almighty God. I want to be like Apostle Paul who said he wanted to know Jesus Christ and the supremacy of his resurrection. My soul has developed deepest desire to know God and follow what He inspires me to do. I thank God and Jesus Christ who have initiated this desire in my soul. Having received gift of salvation, by faith, I now understand that knowing and loving Him is inseparable from serving Him. Jesus said in the book of John that whoever loves Him must obey what He commands. Therefore, I must have equal desire to obey Him as I have to love Him in whatever I do. Being conversant about this matter am aware that God calls each and every believer to serve him though in different ways depending on gifts of the Holy Spirit vested to everybody who is in Christ. Am convinced that God called me to serve Him and have the role of a pastor. Being a pastor I have to embrace leadership qualities as I am a spiritual figure. Being in this call requires me some driving values that I have to maintain and serve as a pillar for my philosophy of ministry. This calling being true as any other calling from God, I thirst to be devoted to grow spiritually and grow strongly as a pastor. I believe Jesus Christ seeks me nurture and serve others in pastoral role. I too believe that Jesus wants me to conform to his image. Again I concur...
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...medical system, the integration of an ancient tradition of loving care is necessary to generate the best possible outcome for a patient. Without love, the mission and the values of any hospital will not prosper. The Healing Hospital focuses on integrating a balance of the latest scientific innovations along with the continual consideration of providing love for the human spirit. A Healing Hospital can embrace key components like the environment, technology, and radical loving care into a spiritual framework that promotes an overall healing process. A healing environment is vital for patients as well as their families when they are faced to cope with not only the illness they are recovering from, but the stressors of being away from a comfortable environment. A calm and supportive environment can help promote the healing process that a patient requires during their stay at a hospital. It is vital to have the support and the commitment of leadership in order to truly integrate the spiritual healing environment into the hospital setting. Another component that a Healing Hospital embraces is the integration of work design and technological advancement. Although loving care is essential in providing a healing environment, patients come to the hospital to get treated by a health care professional. Many hospitals focus on a structured process that can appear to be business oriented rather than patient...
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...REVIEW Name Course Date 4-MAT Book Review Abstract In her book, Practicing Greatness, McNeal demonstrates how successful spiritual leaders are devoted consciously to seven spiritual disciplines, customs of mind and heart that profile their character and competence.[1] The book serves as a reminder to the spiritual leaders that they will either self-select into or out of greatness. The seven disciplines distilled by McNeal are; 1. Self-awareness- the most imperative body of information possessed by a leader 2. Self-management- the ability to handle difficult emotions, mental vibrancy, physical well-being, expectations and temptations 3. Self-development-a life commitment to growing and developing one’s strength 4. Mission-enjoying-the consent of upholding the sense of the purpose of God in your life and leadership 5. Decision-making-learning from failure and knowing the aspects of good decision 6. Belonging-the willpower to cultivate relations and to live in the community with other people including one’s family, mentors, friends and followers 7. Aloneness-the premeditated exercise of soul-making solitude and meditation McNeal speaks to leaders and managers on leadership strengths. He endorses a modest philosophy change that can assist the staff members of a church or business evade the problems that arise from people living in an environment that takes advantage of their weakness instead...
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...Philosophy The philosophy of the nursing faculty at the College of Nursing is congruent with the missions of the College of Nursing and the University of Missouri—St. Louis. Faculty and staff are dedicated to providing nursing education that prepares graduates as professionals to practice in generalist nursing roles, advanced nursing roles, and as nurse scientists in all health care systems. All academic programs reflect the faculty’s beliefs about nursing, clients, health, environment, and nursing education. The faculty believes that nursing is a profession and an academic discipline possessing a scientific body of knowledge that requires critical thinking, problem solving, and informatics. The primary function of nursing is to educate and assist the client to promote, protect, maintain, restore, and support health, or, to provide for a peaceful death. As a profession, nursing encompasses moral, ethical, legal, and scientific dimensions. Nurses are accountable to society for their practice and responsible for functioning within economic, legal, and moral/ethical parameters. Nursing practice is both theory and evidence based, using theories from nursing and other related disciplines. Nurses synthesize and apply knowledge from the arts, sciences, and humanities in nursing practice utilizing interpersonal communication to meet the complex and multidimensional needs of the client in a variety of health care settings throughout the metropolitan area and beyond. Through leadership...
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...| 5 | Does God exist?- Engagement with the Brahmo Samaj | 5-7 | Association with Shri Ramakrishna | 7-8 | Developing eminence and emergence of leadership | Early development of leadership traits | 8 | Dasasya | 9 | Vivekananda at Chicago | 10 | Vivekananda’s take on Vedanta | 10-11 | Vivekananda’s Works | 11 | Vivekananda on his Last Days | 11-12 | Major contributions and demonstrated leadership capability | 12-13 | Swami Vivekananda’s leadership concepts, as applicable in organizations of today | 13-15 | Comments on the person’s leadership styles and attributes | 16-17 | Motivation behind this writing this paper and choosing Swami Vivekananda Leadership is seen in the board room and in the kindergarten classroom. It is needed to guide nations as well as a scout troop. Leadership is exercised all over the world. Perhaps the fact that leadership is “omnipresent” is why it is often ignored, neglected and taken for granted. It’s like air; we don’t even think about it unless it’s lacking. The fact that leadership is so pervasive should make it a required subject in business school. While some topics are electives, everyone needs to learn the essence of leadership. In recent years leadership has become a hot topic. Though leadership is a hot topic, it is not a new topic. Wren says, “Leadership is not a “fad” but a concept that is both current and timeless. The leader chosen by me is Swami Vivekananada. Swami Vivekananda is a must mention among...
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...and refined from the social and cultural background from childhood to adulthood. Every human being initiates to develop ethical standard or character virtually from birth. As they go through developmental phases, they are taught right from wrong, generate empathy for others through interactive observations and understand as to how to behave in a style that is appropriately. They cultivate different perceptions, philosophies, cultural outlooks and distinct ethical concepts, as they go through real life experiences. I attained the basic knowledge of life basically from my parents, church, schools; right from kindergarten, books and from personal reflections. The principles and morals developed over time shaped me as what I am today and help me to interact effectively in society. Some folks follow heroes and heroines as a role model. Specific values, doctrines, political outlooks are formed throughout the developmental stages in everybody’s lifetime. Personal, Cultural and Spiritual Values which Contribute to My Worldview and Philosophy of Nursing I was born and brought up in a middle-class family in Kerala; South India. Fortunately I had a very close-knit family, where we had frequent family interactions. We...
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...Training Analysis Paper An Evaluation of the training program of Foundations for Christian Leadership -------------------------------------------- A Paper Submitted to Dr. Steve Hoke ------------------------------------------------- In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Doctor of Ministry Class LE812 ------------------------------------------- By Sarlito A. Sampan International Graduate School of Leadership Metro Manila, Philippines January 8, 2009 Training Analysis Paper An Evaluation of the Training Program of FCL TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 2 Brief History of FCL 4 Analysis using Holland’s Two track Analogy 6 The FCL Analysis based on the 4 Components of Holland’s Model 8 The Input 8 The In-Ministry experience 9 The Cross-Ties dynamic Reflection 10 The Ballast Formation 11 Training Analysis: Which Components should be in Focus 12 Incoming participants 13 Total Training Process 14 Summary 16 Selected Bibliography 18 Appendix 19 Training Analysis Paper An Evaluation of the training program of FCL Introduction I choose to evaluate the program use by the Foundations for Christian Leadership or more known as FCL for I work directly with this organization. I have been with this program since...
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...Greg Meholick Research Paper The Leadership Lessons of Jesus Christ When we talk about Jesus as a leader, we may imply two different forms: Jesus as the only Son of God, God of the universe, or the risen Christ as being one with God; or Jesus as the 1st century flesh and blood human being, the historical figure. Since the purpose of studying leadership is to improve one's own leadership skills, it makes sense to analyze Jesus' applicable traits, actions, and accomplishments as a good leader—in his historical role—so his leadership skills can be feasibly related to ourselves as human beings. I will attempt to analyze, using modern leadership criteria, how Jesus of Nazareth, the Jew and carpenter's son, was an effective spiritual leader of his time. Let us first examine the leadership attitude Jesus showed in his ministry. According to the address Thomas Cronin delivered at the Western Academy of Management in 1982, part of what makes leaders appealing is their confidence and faith: Leaders have those indispensable qualities of contagious self-confidence, unwarranted optimism, and incurable idealism that allow them to attract and mobilize others to undertake tasks these people never dreamed they could undertake. (To Lead or Not to Lead, Unit One 36) Jesus had infectious self-confidence that attracted all types of people to his cause. A teacher of the law said to Jesus, “Teacher, I will follow your wherever you go” (Matt. 8:19). He was also an...
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...Servant Leadership Servant Leadership is not a leadership style but a state of being. The decision to embark on the mission of Servant Leadership cannot be relegated only to the office. If fully committed to being successful, a servant-leader will embrace all the components needed to be a servant and a leader in every aspect of their life. In this paper, I will explore the origins of Servant Leadership, how it can be implemented to build a successful “leader”, and how Servant Leadership effects employee satisfaction. I also found that Servant Leadership is often synonymous with some sort of religious foundation. Many of the articles I read likened Servant Leadership to religious models. I personally found it difficult to connect with this interpretation, even though I see the relationships, so I chose instead to make a broader “spiritual” connection that would appeal to the “non-believer”. By applying the principals of Servant Leadership to all aspects of one’s life, I believe, true satisfaction and success is possible. What is Servant Leadership? Robert Greenleaf coined the phrase Servant Leadership in his essay titled, The Servant as Leader, in 1970. He says that “the servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead” (Greenleaf.). The word “servant” may conjure up visions of maids scrubbing floors or perhaps a “man of the cloth.” Webster’s dictionary...
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...Personal Philosophy of Leaders Student's Name Institution Personal Philosophy of Leaders The role of a leader, being a President, an entrepreneur, parents or teachers, is crucial for success of any tasks. The task can be as big as finding a solution for a global catastrophe such as an earthquake, or as small as solving a dispute between two people. It is the role of the leader to organize people into groups, and according to their skills to make sure they fully participate in problem-solving. They ensure peoples acknowledge the problem and work toward finding the solution. Consequently, everyone in this world requires leadership qualities at one point in their lives. Thus, personal leadership philosophy is an important tool that defines peoples’ value, behaviors and what they can do. Articulating personal leadership philosophy helps in telling others what they expect from a person. In this essay, I will develop and articulate my personal leadership philosophy, and integrate it with human resource management theories to bring up a well argued stand point. While I was working on an industrial attachment at Deloitte Company, we contracted an oil and gas company, to create and execute an email migration strategy that involved about 1500 employees at their various branches. In the initial stages, the contracted company introduced Smith, who was the project leader. While, in the workshop, the contracted company explained to everyone that, as part of their culture...
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...Philosophy Assignment Template [Instructions: Save this template to your computer as Microsoft Word 2007 document (ends in .docx). Save the Template again using the file name format of: Your last name Philosophy.docx Type your Philosophy Assignment directly onto the renamed document in the spaces provided below. Save often! See Philosophy Assignment Guidelines for specific instructions.] Health[Health refers to an individual's physical, mental and social well-being. Health is considered to be affected by genetic factors, lifestyle and environmental factors. A person's health is constantly changing, it is the responsibility of nurses to be continuously aware of the health of their patients. Nurses usually focus first on the patient's main complaint, but we must also focus on other possible symptoms and the overall wellness of the patient. ] | Person[Each person consist of several different aspects to create a whole, which include psychological, social, physical, cultural and spiritual. Understanding how a patients is more than a symptom, but a human being is essential to their care. It is also important to include the patient in sharing the responsibility for their own health, this will give them autonomy. ] | Environment[The environment in which the person exists is an important influence on his or her health and well-being. Which can include cultural, social, spiritual and economic influences on the individual. One of the most influential aspects of the environment...
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...hospital environment is generally thought of as a place for the diagnosing and the treating of ailments and injuries of the patient, the intrinsic factor of relieving such stressful factors as painful treatments and loss of personal freedom and worth related to prolonged hospitalization and expense of complicated procedures are minimized by recognizing the worth of touching the mind, body and spirit and maintaining comprehensive care through attention to dignity and privacy. The emergence of this concept aims to enhance the overall well-being of the patients’ and their families’ cognitive, emotional and spiritual concerns (Milstein, 2005). Overcoming the barriers that exist in the arena of the hospital setting is the underpinning of the paradigm of the “healing hospital”. This paper will examine all aspects of the “caring environment” through the connection with the spiritual enlightenment mixed with the clinical care of the patients, families and caregivers. Components of a Healing Hospital The “healing hospital” as discussed in Radical Loving Care is not made of just walls, windows and mortar but exudes the culture of love and caring (Chapman, 2011). The three fundamental components of this hospital are a healing physical environment, the integration of work design and technology and the culture of Radical Loving Care. When these...
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