Christian Standpoint Of Healing And The Health Care Provider

Julie Livingston and Angela Garcia both provide ethnographies centered around the theme of illumination. In the case of Julie Livingston, Improvising Medicine works to illuminate the growing cancer epidemic in Africa as well as the unique way cancer is handled in situations of improvisation. Angela Garcia also works to illuminate via her ethnographic work, The Pastoral Clinic, by emphasizing the importance of dispossession in treating heroin addiction in the Española Valley and also working to counter common beliefs regarding heroin addiction. In defending these respective arguments, both authors use similar tone and voice; however, the structure of each ethnography is markedly different. Even with some weaknesses being relatively apparent

Alvord uses her personal experiences of working as a Navajo surgeon to teach her readers the philosophies her people follow to heal. Her philosophy is that instead of looking at each patient as a mechanical system with each part separate, look at their mind, body and spirit as being connected. If one can do this, patient care will improve. She also touches upon being culturally competent in the work place by knowing your patient population’s beliefs on healing and health care. After reading her story, I believe that in order to be the best health care provider one must look into the spiritual aspects of their patients’ lives. As providers we must provide care using the biopsychosocial model of care and become knowledgeable on our patients beliefs. Like Alvord states within her story, we must walk in beauty, become harmoniously connected to those around us, and care for our patients in a positive

Autonomy includes three primary conditions: (1) liberty (independence from controlling influences), (2) agency (capacity for intentional action), and (3) understanding (through informed consent) (Beauchamp & Childress, 2009, p. 100). According to Beauchamp & Childress (2009) to respect autonomous agents, one must acknowledge their right to hold views, to make choices, and to take actions based on their personal values and beliefs (p. 103). Respect for autonomy implies thaturges caregivers to respect theassist a patient in achieving? Heed? the autonomous choices of their patients. From there, patients can act intentionally and with full understanding when evaluating medical treatment modalities. Autonomy also includes a set of rules, one of which requires that providers honor patient decision-making rights by providing the truth, also known as veracity (Beauchamp & Childress, 2009, p. 103). In this case, several facets of the principle of respecting autonomy, specifically veracity, informed

Healing and health services are defined and acted upon in many different ways in the world today. Although in the United States we predominately focus on biomedicine or conventional health care practice, it is only one of many different types of healing. Thru time we have progressed between several different eras of healing. The first era being in the 1860’s which predominately looked at biomedicine type therapy. The second era taking shape in the 1950’s and

Devotion to provide excellent care become the essential objective of every healing hospital. Everyone on the team knows why they are here and what they are aiming for. Paramount to this success toward love is to embraces the whole aspect of care including everything and everyone that can contribute to the final objective which is healing. A person may be healthy but not healed because pieces in the puzzle are missing , that is why It promoting an attitude that meets not only the patient's bodily needs but also their emotional and transcendent needs is primordial. The relationship between the healthcare and the patient is far more important than medicines and all the technology available. God calls us to fellowship and compassion. When awe provide compassionate care we are followers of Jesus, when we live our houses children and comfort to be a missionary we are healing a broken world. Everyone sees the world in a different way because we have different background and things can change from one minute to the other , but God never change he is a rock in time of distress he can heal us and make us whole if only we let him. He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. (Psalm

The Healing Hospital paradigm is a new aspect that many hospitals are now taking into consideration, although modern medicine has many branches which in most cases have based their principles on scientific medical attention that involved the use of drugs to achieve the desired effects needed for a patient’s revival or progress health wise. However with the inclusion of the healing paradigm, most hospitals are seeing a positive increase in patient response to treatment and faster recovery time. Healing as the Oxford English Dictionary states, is the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again

A healing hospital is a healing community providing radical loving care (Journal of Sacred Work, 2009) in a safe environment that focuses on human interaction, interpersonal caring and enhancing the wellbeing of patients, caregivers, and all other members of the healing community. While a healing hospital is, of course, dedicated to providing excellent medical care to its patients (Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, 2012), it is also dedicated to integrating work design and technology (Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, 2012), and ultimately to the overall wellness of every healing community member. Using physical healing, education and supportive human interaction, this care model seeks healing on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels for everyone involved in the process (Zarren, n.d., pp. 1-2). The success of this model requires the cooperation of every

“Medicine was religion. Religion was society. Society was medicine” (Fadiman, 1997). To the Hmong’s, this is a way of life. Everything in their culture is interrelated and represents a holistic view. As Americans, we try to incorporate the holistic approach into our health care system, but heavily rely on medications and science to treat illness.

Yang-Tan (2007) wrote an article introducing his theory using prayer and scripture to treat patients. Yang-Tan (2007) discuss two models the first, is called self-regulations which focus on recognition of mental events in the present moment and the second is involves adapting to openness and acceptance. Yang-Tang(2007) model combines prayer and scripture to help patience’s heal from their problems. The goal is to help patients to feel whole and experience healing through God. All patients sign an consent form to agree to this form of treatment.

Devoting my life to the concept of healing others shapes the basis of my nursing philosophy. To further illustrate it, I will elaborate on the nursing metaparadigms (Black, 2017) and m interpretation of them. I will also explain Martha Rogers’s Science of Unitary Human Beings (Smith & Parker, 2015) and discuss how I will use it to guide my own nursing practice. Key Concepts of My Nursing Philosophy My personal philosophy of nursing is to serve God through healing and properly serving my patients and their families by means of holistic care and compassion. The nursing metaparadigms of person, environment, health, nursing, and caring are the foundation upon which my philosophy is derived (Black, 2017).

Love and compassion, along with providing services to others is just a few components of a healing hospital. Often time the hospital is where patients are at their weakest state, both mentally and physically. This environment is a place where diagnosis and treatment of illnesses are implemented with the use of pharmacologic and technical means. It’s vital that the focus remains on the patient as a whole; therefore the physical and spiritual issues must be equally addressed. Patients could be placed in a defenseless circumstance upon admission to the hospital; therefore they may feel a sense loss of their

Everyone in the healthcare team needs to agree on the definition of healing. It must be agreed that healing goes beyond the physical problems. “Healing requires understanding the patient as a whole person, not just addressing a discrete physical problem. This broad approach was often described as holistic” (Hsu, Phillips, Sherman, Hawkes, & Cherkin, 2008, Hsu, Phillips, Sherman, Hawkes, & Cherkin, 2008,). According to the study by Hsu, et.al.,2008, key components which define healing were (1) healing is multidimensional and holistic; (2) healing is a process, a journey; (2) the goal of healing is recovery or restoration; (4) healing requires the person to reach a point of personal balance and acceptance; (5) relationships are essential to healing. In this study, the authors found that there is a consensus among healthcare providers about what healing means. These include wholeness, recovery, balance, communication and relationships. All these factors are necessary to achieve

Katie Lagana Dee McCaffrey HN 120 07/22/2017 Hippocrates; Leader in Transformational Healing "Let food be thy medicine" (Hippocrates). This is the most famous line from Hippocrates, who was known as 'The Father of Medicine'. He believed in holism which is an important element of transformational healing. Transformational healing is assessing a person's body as a whole vs. today's symptomatic approach. This paper will discuss Hippocrates, his history, how he relates to transformational healing, and Hippocrates' theories and beliefs in the field of health and medicine.

“Christopher,” Brenda told him, “We don’t do business with people who want crush the competition by making sure a bunch of bigots has control over the affairs of average people wanting to save money for college, while allowing the cronies of these bigots to rake in the renown. The Young Christian Health Society, for lack of a better expression, is without a doubt an example of people that people like Siegfried and I refuse to cooperate with.”

Healing hospital paradigm is centered on the removal of stress and other health risks for the patients and their families in the hospital environment. Healing hospital paradigm is important because treating a patient’s illness is not the only intrinsic component when they are admitted to the hospital. A good example for this is stress. Stress can be brought about due to many things when a patient is in the hospital, for example painful treatments, financial problems due to being admitted, loss of social life etc. Reducing these sort of stressors may ensure that the patient’s wellbeing is being maintained and the comprehensive care Minimization of these stressors ensures that the patient’s well-being is maintained while the comprehensive