Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity Jill Gillespie Nursing 310 V Spirituality in Nursing Introduction: As nursing professionals, we are in constant contact with persons from many walks of life and who have unique spiritual and religious backgrounds. To give quality holistic care, nursing professionals need to be understanding and compassionate about these differences and respect the diversification of the patients that we treat. By having an open mind and actively seeking the knowledge
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HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Heritage Assessment Jasmine J Kannamkulam Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V Family Centered Health Promotion 12/11/2011 Cultural heritage plays an important role in the life of every individual regardless of the place they live, food they prefer or language they speak. The cultural roots and traditions build the personality of the person and the cultural awareness helps them to identify themselves and relate it with the outside world. Culture is defined
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diverse faiths, which are: Buddhism, Baha’i and Judaism, comparing them to Christianity. The essay will explore the basic beliefs, spiritual perspectives on healing and the critical components of healing such as prayer, medication and beliefs. It will also explain what is important to people of those particular faiths when cared for by health care providers whose spiritual beliefs differ from their own. In the conclusion, it will explain how the spiritual perspectives from different faiths should
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Running head: SPIRITUAL DIVERSITY Spiritual Diversity in Healthcare Theresa Pedley Grand Canyon University: HLT 310V August 5, 2012 Abstract Religion has a different meaning to different people and in order to medically heal a patient, the patient must be healed in body, mind and spirit. This paper explores healing the patient by providing spiritual support despite the religious needs of the patient. The religions of Buddhism, Jewish and Hinduism are explored while being
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Development The Patient and Family Care Organizational Self-Assessment Tool (PFCC) for current practice setting will be completed as well as the organization in its entirety. The results will be analyzed based on a one to five scoring system with one being the lowest. The areas where the organization could improve its PFCC care will be discussed. The analysis of how business practices and regulatory requirements impact patient family centered care. A strategy will be created that includes
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Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity: First Draft Michelle L. Murphy GCU: Spirituality in Healthcare March 16, 2014 Rev. Rick Hudock Abstract As heath care providers we need to keep mindful of the care we provide to several different religious traditions. It is up to the health care professional to respect and understand the ideals that affect our patients and their family members. In this paper we will compare the philosophies of three diverse faiths. The faiths chosen are Islam, Christian
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Diversity of Faith Grand Canyon University: HLT-310V Spirituality in Health Care Working in the area of health care, it is safe to say that this field of study is dynamic. With constant changes in the medical field, health care professionals cannot assume that everyone is the same. The world is filled with billions of people from different ethnicities, religions and beliefs. Working with such a diverse group of people can be rewarding and yet challenging. Health care providers should
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The Healing of Different Faiths Daniel Rodriguez Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-327V The Healing of Different Faiths Diversity or different faiths must be taken into consideration when providing care to different patients from all the different faiths in the world. There are many different faiths, but the few faiths that will be elaborated on will be Native American, Buddhism, and Hinduism faiths. Buddhism is widely practiced
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FAITH AND PHOLOPHIES OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS TOWARDS HEALTH CARE The problem of respecting the patients’ religious based decisions is playing an increasingly important role in medical practices probably because bioethical standards accentuate the principle of the respect for autonomy (the departure from medical paternalism) and the contacts between people belonging to different religious traditions are becoming more and more frequent because of globalization. (Silesian Medical University [SMU], 2006)
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BELIEFS Diversity in Beliefs Each culture has its own beliefs regarding healing, health, faith, treatment, health care providers, and disease. Everyone's practices and beliefs are brought into the health care system, so it is important as nurses to respect each patient's faith and beliefs. It is hard as health care professionals who have been taught Western medicine to understand other beliefs, but it is important to remember as nurses the goal is to improve patient care. Hinduism Hinduism
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