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
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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
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Nathalie Conti HLT310V – Foundations of Spirituality in Health Care Grand Canyon University February 12th, 2011 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm The healing hospital paradigm focuses on the removal of stress and other health risks in the hospital environment for both patients and visitors. These factors are intrinsic to the hospital setting and not the ailments being treated within. For example, stress for patients is generated through painful
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head: HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Lisa Overfield GCU Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Emory Davis January 11, 2013 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm The area of nursing and healthcare is an ever changing field that constantly challenges healthcare professionals to deliver the most effective and cost efficient care to the public. As the waves of change rage a paradigm shift often falls in its wake. Looking at hospitals as healing communities
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Healing Hospital: A Running head: HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM 1 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Ruth Casanova Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V March 25, 2012 Healing Hospital: A Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction The healing hospital paradigm is a hospital model that focuses on the recovery and 2 wellness of the patient as a whole. Unlike traditional care models that mainly focus on cures for ailments by way of medications,
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A Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction It has been well documented that when people are asked where they would prefer to die, the most common answer is, "At home." The sad fact is that most people draw their last breath at a hospital or some other type of health institution (Gomes, Higgins, 2006). The hospital environment has not been traditionally known as a spiritual place that promotes a loving, pleasing and compassionate environment. Although, a hospital is known to provide a cure
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Healing Hospital – A Daring Paradigm The healing hospital model is a new paradigm that focuses treatment on both the physical and spiritual needs of patients. In fact, it is intent on ensuring that the patient achieves whole body wellness, and not only disease management. As such, it advances the concept that for healing to be complete, the physical needs should be addressed in concurrence with the patient’s spiritual and emotional needs. With regards to the spiritual needs, the concept draws ideas
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Healing Hospitals: A daring paradigm Mercy Cooper Grand Canyon University: Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V 11/24/13 Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Hospitals are embracing the paradigm of healing hospitals. This concept is based on research evidence that suggests that the environment of care has significant implications on patient outcomes. Creation of a healing environment thus represents a concerted effort to comprehensively address all the factors that contribute to the disease
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V May 15, 2011 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm As stated by Erie Chapman “healing hospitals” are centers of love characterized by a myriad of wonderful encounters, many small and a few large (2011). This paradigm of such a caring concept focuses on removing stressors for patients, families and caregivers from the clinical environment. These stressors inhibit healing but are inherent to
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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
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