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.
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.
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.
My philosophy of palliative care rests on two assumptions: (1) patient as a holistic personality and (2) spirituality as an inevitable element of care. Patients who are approaching the last stages of life due to illness frequently display a unique predisposition towards being spiritual in their revelations. I cannot imagine palliative care being delivered without its spiritual component. Simultaneously, as a novice nurse, I need to develop greater self-awareness, which will facilitate the delivery of spiritual caring in the future (Ronaldson, 2012). Based on the Dreyfus and Dreyfus model of skill acquisition and Benner's from novice to expert model, I am still at the very first, novice level of nursing expertise.
Counselors advocate change at all levels to improve the quality of life for individuals or groups, while eliminating obstacles that make it difficult to receive proper services. Christian counselors promote the same quality as secular counselors but incorporate the messages of Jesus Christ. Three specific areas competence, conflict of Interest and termination are valuable in the counseling profession. Understanding these areas in the code of ethics of counseling is an important responsibility in order to be a professional and suitable counselor. Can Your Code of Ethics Be Wrong?
Spirituality: Considerations in Clinical Assessment The role of spirituality and religion in sickness and health has gained ascendency in recent years, not merely belonging to religious leaders but rather a part of an integrated human growth and development experience and theory. However, there exists some confusion, even among professionals as to what defines and constitutes religion versus what defines and comprises spirituality. It is therefore the purpose of this essay to both define and examine spirituality and its roles in the context of human development as well as its implications for psychological assessment. Religion as it relates to spirituality will be alluded to but will not be the focus of this article. This account will firstly cover the definitions and conceptualizations associated with the term ‘spirituality’ and the integrated rendering of the brand provided by Melanie Munk, contributing author of Chapter 16 of the course text (Comstock, 2005, p319).
Cultural Competency and Healthcare Disparities Cultural competency has been defined as the ability to recognize and respond to health-related beliefs and cultural values in a manner that results in culturally-appropriate and effective treatment to address disease incidence (Wright, 2008). Additionally, it requires a deep respect for cultural differences and an interest in learning and accepting different perspectives and beliefs. As patient advocates, nurses must utilize a process, rather than focus on a result, that allows them to operate within the cultural context of the patient and their family (Ndiwane, 2004). (Cross, Barzon, Dennis, & Isaacs, 1989) defined five elements essential to any institution or agency’s cultural competency efforts. They propose that in order to successfully
Buddhism, Native American spirituality and Scientology are compared to Christianity in this paper. Although there are obvious differences among the religions, there are similarities such as they all want the best outcome for the person suffering from an illness. All healthcare workers and providers want what is best for the patient by respecting their religious views and cultural background. Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity There are different religions and spiritual beliefs within the health care system because of the different backgrounds and belief systems of the patients. This can be a difficult concept for health care providers taking care of these patients.
Nurses have a great opportunity to shape the future of the nursing practice through therapeutic communication Armold&Boggs, (2011). While nursing is fundamentally about communicating care and care is at the heart of the nurse client relationship, many problems still remain in the clinical area due to a lack of effective communication. This is supported by Crawford,( 1998).Communication is a key skill of modern nursing practice. Therapeutic Communication is one of the most valuable tools that nurses have to build good interpersonal relationship or trust. I felt the need to develop therapeutic relationship with the patients so that they could feel they could put their trust in me ,also that I was there to listen and talk to them not just care for them.Cutcliff and Mckenna (2005) states that you can gain comfort from drawing on your interpersonal skills, having strength and endurance, feeling self confident , having sufficient competence,beingpeace and ease with oneself and also having a sense of being valued and useful.