World Religion and Healthcare Jane Smith Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V No Name May 23, 2014 Abstract The goal of this paper is to educate healthcare providers on a few of the basic needs of patient’s practicing Hinduism, Shintoism, and Native American cultures. A theme develops as one expands their worldview and becomes competent at creating an open dialogue with patients. Learning to have respectful conversations regarding spiritual needs will prove
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sister Josephine told her the death of her husband, she “wept at once” and realized that the freedom was belong to her in the future(Chopin 15). Then she became excited and believed the rest of her life would be joyful. However, at the end, her husband’s return destroyed her hope. Her dream to freedom shattered and she lost the freedom she just acquired. The great contrast between her ideal life and reality killed her. Moreover people did not understand the truth of her death and believed that she died
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Ifugao is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Covering a total land area of 2,628.2 km², the province of Ifugao is located in a mountainous region characterized by rugged terrain, river valleys, and massive forests. Its capital is Lagawe and borders Benguet to the west, Mountain Province to the north, Isabela to the east, and Nueva Vizcaya to the south. It is named after the term "i-pugo" which means "i" (from/people) and "pugo" (hill), thus
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Grace Cortez because her daughter has been losing a substantial amount of weight since she started high school. She has lost a total of 45 pounds since the beginning of the school year which was only a month before. Emily is the middle child in her family. Emily has a younger sister named Cynthia Cortez and an older sister named Yasmin Cortez. Emily’s favorite things to do are dance and sing so this year she decided that she wanted to join the band following in her older sister Yamin’s footsteps. Emily
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The novel centers upon the Ogata family of Kamakura, and its events are witnessed from the perspective of its aging patriarch, Shingo, a businessman close to retirement who works in Tokyo. Although only sixty-two years old at the beginning of the novel, Shingo has already begun to experience temporary lapses of memory, to recall strange and disturbing dreams upon waking, and occasionally to hear sounds heard by no one else, including the titular noise which awakens him from his sleep one night, "like
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adapting to the changes in his environment when confronted by unfamiliar exposure to cultural differences. The film was chosen because it told a story about one’s struggle with traditional practice, cultural diversity, gender roles, and the acceptance of others. In terms of culture, there was an abundance of traditional practices related to the Hmong community. The screenplay was written by Nick Schenk and the movie was filmed in July 2008 (Longwell, T). Gran Torino was directed and produced by
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official statistics. According to the latest World Health Ranking data published in May 2014 Suicide Deaths in Kyrgyzstan reached 1.43% of total deaths. The age adjusted Death Rate ranks of Kyrgyzstan is 79th in the world (World Health Organization, 2015). This paper focuses on suicidal behaviour within the traditional society of Kyrgyzstan. According to established norms and values of traditional society the suicide attempt is extremely shameful and it is a form of deviant behaviour. The aim
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The executed is then declared dead, which is not the typical classifications of brain-death or circulatory-death, and sent to a hospital for organ procurement optimum for transplantation. Ethical question emerges because it is uncertain that a donor is truly dead —with cessation of heart and lung function becoming irreversible, when vital organs are retrieved from his body. This process has been described as death-inmates receiving their “unfinished execution in the surgery theater… and finished by
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struggles, dilemmas, and conflicts in the search for identity and self-development among Chinese and Chinese American women.” (Yea-Wen, C. (2007). The storyline is centered upon Jing-Mei Woo also referred as June, who struggles to deal with the recent death of her mother Suyuan Woo, throughout the movie. The movie takes place at a reception held on June’s behalf before her trip to China to meet her twin half-sisters who were abandoned by their mother many years ago. June struggles with her mother’s past
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potential treatments. My first experiences with culture were relatively benign. I grew up in small-town Iowa where there was one African-American family and a smattering of families of Asian or Indian descent. The latter lived in town because their parent or parents were physicians at the local Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital. I lived in a vacuum with family living nearby, and all of my friends were Caucasian and Christian or Catholic. My maternal grandparents were born and raised in different
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