Healthcare Provider and Faith Diversity

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Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity Christopher Haynes Grand Canyon University: HLT-310v 05/24/2015 Abstract This paper will discuss the differences in worldview according to James Sire’s worldview questions as well as components of healthcare including critical and spiritual aspects. The paper will finish up with explaining factors some find important and a reflection of what was learned of the two religious worldviews. Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity Everyone who enters the hospital has a worldview/religious that differs from most people they encounter. These differences stem typically from religious/personal preferences. By knowing these differences one can provide better care. This paper will examine and compare Christianity and Muslim worldviews according to Sire’s Worldview Questions, explain spiritual aspects and critical components of healing, important patient factors and what was learned. Questions James Sire defined worldview as “commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions which we hold about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being” (Shelly & Miller 2006 p.34). According to Sire, seven questions are answered to understand one’s worldview. What is prime reality? What is the nature of the world around us? What is a human being? What happens to a person at death? Why is it possible to know anything at all? How do we know what is right and wrong? What is the meaning of human history? As Christians prime reality of God is a triune God who is Personal and sovereign over everything, which He created and sustains (Shelly & Miller 2006 p. 65). Muslims believe in a god, the sustainer/creator of all universes and people (Hassan 2009 p. 78). What is the nature of the world around
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