...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. Healing...
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...Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Tiffany Johnson Grand Canyon University HLT-310V April 13, 2014 When it comes to the issue of spirituality and healing hospitals, the healthcare providers in hospitals must consider the emotional side. “The view that people do not change into one dimensional beings when they become patients and their emotional needs increase when the body is in a weak constitution. Chapman gives a model in which “Total Loving Care equals Higher Standard. In this view, there is the patient there is the disease and there is the humanity shown by the health care provider. Humanity is the healthcare providers feeling about the disease (Chapman, 2007).” Healing hospitals in the United States are becoming more of the norm and expected level of care offered by health care facilities and hospitals throughout the country. The Baptist Healing Trust determines the designation of the top healing hospitals. “The mission of the Baptist Healing Trust, a private grant making foundation, is the sacred work of fostering healing and wholeness for vulnerable populations through strategic investing, philanthropy, and advocacy (healingtrust.org.)” Parrish Medical Center located in central Florida has ranked number one in healing hospital for three years in a row as of 2008. The vision of Parrish Medical Center is: healing experiences for everyone, all the time. In a world dominated by technology, so sophisticated that it is possible to send astronauts into space. The staff at...
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...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Bradley Smith Grand Canyon University: HLT-302 Due: 03/17/13 Healing hospitals are currently on the decline in health care America. Most health care providers have lost the true meaning of healing their patients holistically; both physically and spiritually. If healing hospitals started to come back, I believe that not only will the physical care of a patient increase. But patients will be happier and feel spiritually healed also. If healing hospitals were to make a comeback, hospitals and doctor’s offices would not seem so cold and unwelcoming to the patients. Even though there are challenges in creating a healing hospital, they are still a necessary component in the health care system for patients to feel spiritually healed when they leave. Components of a Healing Hospital Related to Spirituality Laurie Eberst, the president and CEO of Mercy Gilbert Medical Center describes a true healing hospital to, “include three key components: A healing physical environment, the integration of work design and technology, and a culture of radical loving care.” (Eberst, 2008). A Healing and Physical Environment When patients and their families enter the hospital, they are all under a lot of stress due to the illness of the patient. When a hospital provides aesthetically pleasing waiting rooms and doctor’s offices, it helps the patients and their families cope with that stress they are having. It is also important for a healing hospital...
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...A Healing Hospital Yashate Manning GCU Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V Pauline King January 27, 2013 A Healing Hospital Love and compassion, along with providing services to others is just a few components of a healing hospital. Often time the hospital is where patients are at their weakest state, both mentally and physically. This environment is a place where diagnosis and treatment of illnesses are implemented with the use of pharmacologic and technical means. It’s vital that the focus remains on the patient as a whole; therefore the physical and spiritual issues must be equally addressed. Patients could be placed in a defenseless circumstance upon admission to the hospital; therefore they may feel a sense loss of their personal freedom or dignity. The patient is the main focus of care and love is at the center of a healing hospital (Chapman, 2011). A Healing Hospital focus on compassion and skill accompanying the use of new technology and drugs aimed to enhance patients’ outcomes (Chapman, 2011). Healing hospitals consist of staff that’s highly skilled, knowledgeable, caring, and showing of much empathy to the patients they serve. It’s evident that love, an essential component of a healing hospital, according to Chapman, 2011 “ a healing hospital is built on the ancient tradition that love is at the center of healing”. The patient’s spiritual condition is a vital part of their overall medical state and requires careful assessment at all times. “Spiritual...
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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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...Running Head: HEALING HOSPITAL PARADIGM Assignment One, Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Michele F. Broskey RN Grand Canyon University HLT 310V Emory Davis September 23, 2012 Introduction Illness often has a way of drawing an individual closer to their spirituality. As caregivers, taking care of the sick can also enhance your spiritual nature and inevitably compassionately aid them on their journey. The World Health Organization may have said it best in 1948 with their statement on health as “Health is not the absence of disease. It is the state of physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing.”(World Health Organization, 2012) The purpose of this paper is explore the concept of healing hospitals, spirituality in the healthcare arena, and existing barriers for creating a healing environment. Healing Paradigm The healing hospital paradigm focuses on eliminating stress and other external and internal factors that compromise the health and overall wellbeing of patients, family, visitors, staff and caretakers. Often these factors are overlooked and typical to common hospital settings. For example, stress for patients is generated through painful treatment procedures such as blood draws and insulin injections, changes in financial status due to the healthcare expenses, fear of uncertainty, poor communication from health care providers who may use medical jargon and, changes within their social and familial support networks as a result of their...
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...Healing Hospital A Daring Paradigm Grand Canyon University HLT 310V Spirituality in Health Care July 07, 2012 Healing Hospital A Daring Paradigm Introduction A healing hospital is one concentrate on the recovery and complete welfare of a patient. Traditional type of health care concentrate on cures of illness by using medication and other type of medical procedures. But healing hospitals has focused on the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of a person. This paper discuses about the various aspects that consist of a healing hospital, role of spirituality in improvement of health and the challenging factors of creating a healing environment. Healing hospital environments include patient, family members and the total health care members. The patient care involve in all aspects of patients life. The main attraction of healing hospital is the fundamental love and honor of everybody’s eminence. In healing hospital patients receiving compassionate care through a chain of love that happen in organization with trained health workers. There are some factors contributing to the successful foundation for a healing hospital. Responsibility is the main thing to build up a successful healing hospital. The leaders and workers are faithful and honor to their duties. The hospital system itself should undergo some changes in order to mix the clinical care and loving care. The third factor is respect that brings trust and acceptance...
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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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...Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Anna Hernandez Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V Richard Hudock July 27, 2014 Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Spirituality and religions, effects on health has become an increasing interest to scientist since the 1980’s. According to Smith (2006), spirituality has gained such a momentum that there are multiple articles and several textbooks on spirituality since the year of 1989. The consensus is developing that spirituality and religion are closely related to physical and psychological health and that spirituality and health are an important focus in nursing research (Smith, 2006). Spirituality, however, has many definitions. The majority accord that, it is defined as the manner by which persons seek meaning in their lives and experience transcendence-connectedness to that which is beyond the self (Smith, 2006, p. 41). Spirituality has two dimensions and is a highly complex concept. There are two components of spirituality that are generally described. The vertical, which describes the transcendent, is the connection between a patients (inner body) or something outside such as, a higher power or the divine (Smith, 2006). The horizontal component relates to the connection between persons. This consists of individual and social support that are, set in, the spiritual context by religious setting and spiritual relationships (Smith, 2006). The American Association of Critical Care Nursing (2006)...
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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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...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Grand Canyon University HLT - 310V May 3, 2013 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm As nurses we are known to be hardworking, caring, compassionate and kind individuals who carry around big hearts on our sleeves. In addition, in today’s society we are also being exposed more to the spiritual aspects of each individual patient that we care for on a day to day basis. In turn, we must open up our minds and respect the patient’s spirituality, no matter what it might be, to understand that this could be their main way of coping and part of the healing process for them. We must also understand that it is “not just random, thoughtful gestures but rather a continuous chain of loving care—kindness and skill from every caregiver (including leaders) to every patient and to one another” (Ananth, 2009). Concepts of a Healing Hospital There are several concepts that must be understood as part of a Healing Hospital in which each hospital has their own mission, vision and statement. These aspects are created to let the public be aware of what they can expect from the hospital as a whole. As stated by St. Joseph’s hospital (2013), their mission is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus in the tradition of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange by continually improving the health and quality of life of people in the communities we serve. In addition to their mission statement, their components include dignity, service, excellence...
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...Healing Hospital's Every hospital posts their mission statement where the public can read the promising words describing a caring compassionate health care team that is there for you. But when people show up looking for that compassionate caring help during their time of need they often find that the medical staff is sometimes rude, condescending or nowhere to be found. And if that doesn’t make you already feel helpless and scared, toss in some loud overhead messages such as “Code Blue to emergency”. Then you see someone being wheeled around on a gurney looking scared and sick sometimes with body parts hanging out that should not be because no one took the time to care about the patients’ modesty. If you are not aware that there is a difference between the hospitals that treat the signs and symptoms of your disease and a “Healing Hospital” you are not alone. “Healing Hospitals” believe that love and spirituality are key components for healing and believe healing the mind, body and soul of the patient instead of just treating the signs and symptoms of disease can help heal the overall disease that some suffer from. “Healing Hospitals” understand factors between disease and stress. Using modern technology for education, relaxation, and entertainment creates an atmosphere of health awareness and encourages healthy living for everyone involved at Healing hospitals from administrators to visitors (Mendocino Coast District Hospital, n.d.) (Geimer-Flanders, J., 2009). Specific...
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...Healing Hospital Environment and their relationship to spirituality Human caring facilitates healing. Healing should be accompanied by love and compassion for the sick persons or their families. Healing is a life-long journey of becoming fully human that involves the totality of our being. It connects our body, mind, emotion, spirit, social and political context, as well as our relationships with others and with the Divine. Healing does not necessarily mean being happy or getting what we think we want out of life; it means growth, often with pain. In the health care field spirituality plays an important role in healing, and to give a sense of well being. Spirituality enables an internal tranquility, a meaning, comfort and hope in everyone’s life. Most humans discover spirituality through religion and religious activity. At the same time, some people attain and relate spirituality through art or music, or a relation with nature or through ethics and principles. Of course, people may have different opinions if we ask whether there is a connection between spirituality and healing. However, since mind, body and spirit are intertwined, the health of any of these factors would influence health of other factors. As a personal concept, spirituality is generally understood in terms of an individual’s attitudes and beliefs related to transcendence or to the non material forces of life and of nature (O’ Brien, 2011, p.5). Spiritual practice relates to a person’s faith and behaviors...
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...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Abstract Healing Hospitals are a way to help a person experience healing in a different way. Different cultures have their own spiritual practices and beliefs which they believe to be sacred. These rituals help in the aspect of healing spirit while modern medicine heals the body. Most cultures have religious practices and some form of prayer. Healing hospitals are a way to help change the cold aseptic hospital environment into a warm and caring environment through a concept of healing both the spirit and the body. There are several factors that go into making a hospital a healing hospital, a spiritual loving environment, advanced technology and medical practices and the physical design of the hospital. The Healing Cultural People tend to think that their way of life and their rituals, are the only way or at least the only true way. With the advent of many cultures immigrating to the United States, there has been an awakening of cultural awareness that helps healthcare professionals work to ensure that the religious or spiritual philosophy of a patient is respected as well as encouraging a more loving and caring environment to help in healing the spirit as well as the body. A Spiritual Loving Environment An environment where there is a loving caring attitude will give patients a feeling that the healthcare professionals caring for them are concerned, not only about the medical aspect of their care, but also about them...
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...Nursing is a profession with roots based in Christianity so getting back to those roots of promoting healing is called for. In this short essay, a discussion of the components of a healing hospital will be addressed, what challenges are imposed and a biblical aspect that supports the concept of a healing hospital. According to the article written by Ms. Eberst, in order for a hospital to promote healing, there are three components that need to be met (Eberst, 2008). First of all it needs to be quiet. Noise prevents sleep, which impairs healing at the cellular level. By addressing the noise levels coming from all areas of the hospital, patients are not as disturbed so then can heal faster. Secondly, by combining technology with work design staff is able to work more efficiently and provide privacy to patients (Eberst, 2008). For instance, a set of separate elevators were created for staff to transfer patients to procedures without patients having to worry about potentially being seen by someone they know, thus preserving the dignity of patients (Eberst, 2008). The technology also spills over into the patient’s room. The entertainment in the room not only provides the usual diversion programs but also incorporates individualized education, promotes laughter on a specific comedy channel, healing music on another channel, and also provides a way for the patient to evaluate their hospital stay in-house (Eberst, 2008). This enables the staff to address concerns immediately, thus increasing...
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