Health Care Provider And Health Diversity: Case Study

Health Care Provider and Health Diversity: Final Draft
Christine Feisthamel
Grand Canyon University
Spirituality in Health Care
HTL-310V
Debra Whitler
March 11, 2013

Abstract
Implementation of religious and spiritual practices in the health care setting can be challenging and may take time to implement. The aim of this review was to determine if the health care provider could successfully incorporate care that is spiritually nurturing and culturally competent. A review of multiple articles, handbooks and websites on Buddhism, Hinduism, Muslim and Christianity revealed that even though spiritual/religious practice may be different from religion to religion, it is very possible to implementation spiritual and religious practices within multiple health care settings. The key is to assess the…show more content…
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