This paper will explain the components of a healing hospital, how these components relate specifically to spirituality and the challenges of creating a healing hospital. Components of a Healing Hospital and Relationship to Spirituality There are many components of a healing hospital. Each component corresponds to creating an environment that allows a person to heal psychologically, physically, and spiritually. According to Samueli Institute, 2011, an optimal healing environment includes manipulating internal, interpersonal, behavioral, and external environments in order to promote healing (Ananth, 2011, p. 2). By creating a healing environment in each of the environments, a patient will be able to heal and be “whole.” According to Samueli Institute, in order to be healing, each environment has two objectives to meet, internal: “develop healing intention” and “experience personal wholeness,” interpersonal: “cultivate healing relationships” and “create healing organizations,” behavioral: “practice healthy lifestyles” and “apply collaborative medicine,” and external: “build healing spaces” and “foster ecological sustainability” (Ananth, 2011, p. 2).
The healing hospital paradigm involves healing the client as a whole. This involves not just curing the disease. The paradigm’s focus is to address the patient and family’s cognitive, emotional, and spiritual well-being. In the hospital setting, barriers and stressors must be overcome to create a healing environment. This paper focuses on the paradigm of the healing hospital, examines its influence on the care giving process, and details the components in terms of spirituality.
Spiritual practices may generate optimism and hope, sense of relaxation, increase coping skills, and reduce depression and anxiety. By reducing the stressors, spirituality helps to enhance immunity, cardiovascular, hormonal and nervous systems. (“Spirituality,” 2011). Healing hospitals emerged to provide comprehensive healing experience of body, mind and spirit.. The healing hospital paradigm is aiming to create a hospital environment that enhances the overall well being of patient including their emotional, and spiritual concerns.
The conversation with patients and families tells much about the way they feel. As a health care provider, treating patients and families with empathy, listening, and respect enhances clinician-patient relationship. The health care provider must communicate with patients and their significant others about medical conditions, needed tests, explaining their medication actions, and possible side effects. The nurse must communicate effectively by using clear terms and avoiding medical jargons that could
Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Spirituality is not always or only defined by ones religious values and religious affiliations. The definition itself could be different from person to person or even between cultures. It’s more about understanding and learning who you are and making that connection to yourself. The value of connection carries on to the health care professions too and this where spirituality is essential to all medicine and health care. The process of understanding the patient and making that connection is valuable especially when there is a relation between one’s health and spirituality.
The overall goal is for the client to return to pre-hospital living condition in an improved state of wellness. The theory of self-efficacy is based on the belief that what people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. So, if the patient is taught to believe that they can take care of themselves and actually practice how to do it will help in maintaining good health. Nursing diagnosis: Anxiety and fear related to new diagnosis, lack of understanding of medical condition and disease process. The patient needs to understand his new medical condition in order to gain understanding of the disease process, signs and symptoms, complications, medication regimen, follow-up appointment as well as the benefits of physical activity, diet and weight control.
Nightingale believed that her nursing career was a calling from God. She utilized her attributes of love, compassion and veracity to promote quality care of the patient. Nightingale proved to be a provider of care, as she integrated holistic human needs in the provision of safe and effective nursing care. The holistic approach to medicine attempts to treat both the mind and the body. I thoroughly believe that a person’s social, mental, and physical conditions all contribute to the healing process.
Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Annie Trinh HCS 350 December 11, 2013 Litanya Simien-Robnett Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Communication is an essential component of professional nursing. The knowledge and utilization of effective communication among professional health care providers directly effects their patient health outcomes. It allows health care professionals to obtain and share crucial data, teach and express their thoughts and concerns. It is a mode of transportation to utilize knowledge and convey a plan of action for progress and improvement. It is a way for professionals to embody and project change, to make a difference.
Holistic health care places the emphasis on giving knowledge, and ultimately the responsibility, to the individual patient in the treatment of their wellness and healing. The practice not only recognizes, but also works with the relationship between the body, mind, emotions and spirit. The principal focus is on reducing stress, a significant cause of many illnesses, and buttressing the body's own self-healing capabilities. The importance in holistic health care is in recognizing the symptoms as they come to light, and at the same time eliminating the cause of the symptoms in the process of restoring health and energy in the shortest possible time. The healing for the patient takes place when the wellness factors coexist in alignment and balance.
Introduction: This report will discuss empathy and how it is applied in a health care setting, when developing client care relationships. Empathy and why it is important when providing healthcare to a client. Sometimes empathy can be mistaken for sympathy and the difference between both is not always understood. Communication is an integral part of providing health care to a client and being able to empathize with a client can be a major part of the communication process. Body: What is empathy and why it is important when providing healthcare to a client.