The World Health Organization, physicians, and patients acknowledge that spirituality is important to practice and helps to create hope, faith and compassion in health care, and also plays an important part in restoration of health. (1998). Seeker believes that spiritual practice in healthcare helps the individual cope with stress, anxiety, and fear, as well as gives the individual a feeling of hopeful and an overall healthier behavior, allowing the body to heal more effectively (2011). In this mixed environment of technology and spirituality, a healing hospital can help address the concerns of the patients of today. This paper will focus on those mechanism of a healing hospital and their relationship to spirituality.
When the outcome is important but uncontrollable, and at times of crisis. In these times, religion will be important in performing psychological functions for people. Parson sees religion as helping individuals cope with unforeseen events and uncontrollable outcomes. He also says that it creates and legitimates society’s central values and it is the primary source of meaning. Religion makes society’s central values sacred and this helps to promote value consensus and social stability.
Hawkins on the other hand presented a different yet equally as informative model. His concentric circles model was an excellent way of explaining the human personality. Additionally, the checklist seemed to be a handy tool for ensuring therapeutic progress. Hawkins seemed to place a greater emphasis on how to help a client achieve spiritual and psychological maturity. He explained that all parts of the human function are addressed in the healing journey.
It stated that LTC facilities with EHRs will have a new competitive edge. This edge will help the LTC facilities communicate data with local acute care sites (Tabar, 2013). As our population ages the number of people seeking LTC facilities after an acute hospital stay has increased. Chronic diseases, which affect older adults disproportionately, contribute to disability; diminish quality of life and increased health and long-term care costs (Hall, 2013). The implementation of EHRs in LTC facilities or home health can manage patients care to promote improvements in the patients outcome and possible help decrease medical cost.
As the diversity of the United States continues to grow, health care facilities are becoming more culturally challenged. A big component to healing is assessing cultural and spiritual needs of patients and their families, and providing a holistic approach to healing. By building awareness in meeting the needs of diverse populations, the health care facilities of America will soon understand the components that are needed to provide healing. The purpose of this paper is to examine the spiritual perspectives of healing and compare Christianity to the religious beliefs of Native Americans, Sikhs, and Baha’i’s, identify critical components needed to offer a culture of healing, and reflect on the unique roles health care providers offer as they set aside their own beliefs to meet the needs of
Running head: PERSONAL WORLDVIEW AND SPIRITUALITY Personal Worldview and Spirituality Mary Joseph Grand Canyon University HLT-310V May 17th, 2015 My Worldview and Spirituality Technology in the world of health care has bought many different changes to way a patient is treated and cared for. Many patients’ lifespans are increased from these technological changes. However, there was health care before these technological advances that were based on spirituality. Spiritual care is defined as serving a patient in every aspect of their life including spiritual, emotional, and social (Puchalski, 2001). Many patients were cured through spirituality in the olden days, and a combination of technology and spirituality should be used in modern health care.
It supported the definition of Weng, Dai, Huang, and Chiang, (2010) that quality of life is based on one’s capability to achieve those things or participate in activities he or she values and is viewing health as a resource to facilitate his or her participation in activities of daily living and social interactions. In the recent years, the number of researches relating to quality of life is increasing, such as a prognosis tool for cancer (Lis, Gupta, & Grutsch, 2007). Another research is the Quality of Life Index that evolved from the 1985 version made by Ferrans and Powers to the third version that we know today. The recent localization of the Quality of Life Index was translated to Portuguese and made into public (Kimura & da Silva,
It is a form of health care organization that combines health service delivery and health service financing into one system I have expressed interest in managed care of the elderly due to policies set to develop workable managed care solutions for the problem of rising health care costs which is traced back to the Nixon era (Brown, 2000). Since that time, the development of managed care has hinged on a seemingly paradoxical promise of offering quality care that is accessible, while at the same time keeping costs within prescribed constraints (Brown, 2000). Health care expenditures in the United States have risen dramatically over the past five years, leading to increases in health insurance premiums (Davis, 2003). Back in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, employers responded to rising premiums by turning to managed care policies (Davis, 2003). The backlash against managed care in the 1990’s was primarily driven by the powerful concern of patients and policymakers over the idea that those who pay for healthcare services could override the decisions of clinicians and patients regarding diagnosis, treatment, and specialist referral (Tunis, 2004).
Running head: Optimism and Health Optimism and Health HUM/111 July 7, 2013 Molly McGuire Optimism and Health Optimism is very important to a person’s physical and psychological well-being. Throughout our lives we are affected in areas depending on whether we are optimistic or pessimistic. When we are optimistic, we look for hope instead of despair. In using optimism in our everyday lives we can improve ourselves physically and psychologically. I am going to discuss the studies from the article “Can Optimism Decrease the Risk of Illness and disease among the elderly?” and how it shows the effects of optimism on our lives.
Data used in the article is qualitative data. Independent variable is spiritual discipline and dependent variable is leadership role. It seems to me that author is trying to prove that as the spiritual discipline increases leadership role becomes more subtle in a person. Author used a unit of analysis in the study as individual and helped them to