Healing Hospital

Using this assessment tool, I interviewed a hospital patient and his relatives. There are lots of ways that these guide questions can be used and while interviewing, I realized how different methods of asking the patient may affect patients’ attitudes towards the issue. Whatever one chooses to use, any method cannot be very effective if sincerity and willingness of the assessor are not present. This is in accordance with the studies about restructuring healing hospitals (Chapman, 2003; Eberst, n.d.) which suggest that hospital facilities and equipment are not enough to cure patients. The hospital management should have people who have positive attitude towards their work and the patients. A healing environment should practice a culture of ‘radical loving care’ (Chapman, 2003; Eberst, n.d); thus, in the process of asking these questions, one should be more careful and sensitive about the patients’ feelings and attitude about the subject matter.

Person centred care can also be constructed, not only by the healthcare workers themselves, but from the environment that has been created also. An environment of care is one that is clean and safe and that promotes patient privacy. At the heart of this environment of care, there should be human interactions to encourage patients to be calm, comfortable and support those within it. Together the design and these interactions can transform an institutional and impersonal setting into one that is truly healing and helpful for the patient. There should be a space provided for loved ones to get together and congregate, as well as access to a variety of entertainment outlets that serve as positive diversions for family and patients, such as the television and

Those two theories are Florence Nightingale’s theory of the important of the environment and Katharine Kolcaba’s theory of comfort. Both of these theories are lacking in the emergency room because of the lack a therapeutic environment for these patients. The goal for most emergency room physician is to keep the patient safe until the patient can be moved to an inpatient pscyharitic unit (Nicks & Manthey, 2012, p. 2). By the physicians having this mentality, it does not allow the patient to start his or her healing process in the emergency room while the patient is boarding waiting for an inpatient bed to become available. With the implementation of both of the nursing theories mentioned above this writer believes that it will change the environment that the patient is in and will teach the physicians to start to treat these patients and in turn, it will provide the patients with the quality care that he or she

The hospital is seen as generally seen as a place of sickness, disease and a place where people are going through some of the most challenging hardships of their lives. As they endure these hardships, there is a significant amount of physical and mental stressed place upon the patient and subsequently placed upon their loved ones. Despite how unappealing a hospital may seem, they are a pertinent part of society focused on improving the overall health of the population, the World Health Organization describes health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (World Health Organization, 2014).” Being admitted to the hospital for any of amount of time can be stressful and challenging. This paper will explore the challenges of an older adult woman under the pseudonym, Mrs. A and her family regarding her transition from living in her home in Port Coquitlam to having an unexpected long term stay at the hospital.

Healing hospitals focus on patients on a holistic manner. To build this type of care for a healing hospital starts with something as simple as the hospital design. The design of the hospital is very important. Weather there will be a lot of light or not, spacing, and how that space it utilized. “Historically, healthcare

Hospital social work is time limited and the focus could easily be more directed at problems rather than solutions. Patients enter the hospital with a physical problem and desire to leave with answers. In this type of environment the focus can be on the physical ailment rather than additional factors that may be contributing to physical distress. Environmental factors can promote well-being or become a barrier to wellness. An ecological perspective provides a lens to view patient systems in a broader context.

The last and most vital element of healing hospital is implementing a culture of Radical Loving Care. This philosophy of empathetic care was advocated by Erie chapman who is the leader of health care industry. The purpose of the philosophy is to take health care staffs back to their root and reminding them the reason why they went to health care (Eberst, 2008). This philosophy stimulates the healing of clients through holistic approach. It is very

Each day, men, women and children are put behind bars suffer from lack of access to medical health care. Chronic illnesses go untreated, emergencies are ignored, and patients with serious illnesses fail to receive needed care. A small failure to medical care can turn in to death of an inmate if left untreated. Prisoners are humans whether inmates or not, with normal health issues or diseases. Even a common cold is an example of an illness that needs treatment. A lot with what is wrong with the health care system today, in the United States deals with money. Within prisons, it is an entire different story. The mission of medical care is to diagnose, comfort and cure. These goals are not being achieved within the prison system. Care needs to be given to every inmate, even the most despised and violent one among them all.

A growing topic in healthcare today is the focus on promoting a “healing” environment. While many consider all hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers to be healing facilities they are not recognized as such by the Baptist Healing Trust of Nashville Tennessee. To be deemed a “healing hospital” a facility possesses three key components which are not only physical in nature but spiritual as well. By recognizing the relationship between the two, a facility is able to overcome many of the barriers that present challenges for other companies. By identifying the key components and broken barriers one can

The first component speaks of a healing environment. This is an environment that is restful to the patient and the patient‘s family. There are no overhead paging, no sweepers going down the hall at night, promotion of a calming stress free environment for staff and patients to connect with their internal spirituality. The implementation of something as simple as a relaxation garden or massage treatment can go far in helping a patient rejuvenate so that they can move forward.

When considering this the color of the environment plays a big part of the healing environment. The use of chromotherapy, color healing, is essential when considering a healing environment. Green is considered the universal color for healing (Stefanidakis, 2001). Using colors appropriately in the hospital environment can encourage emotional responses to enhance healing. If the incorrect colors are utilized the patient may present with symptoms of irritability instead of peacefulness or cheerfulness which could inhibit healing. Furthermore, the hospitals interior plays a major role in the healing process. Spirituality will be promoted if the interior reflects the hint of a religious atmosphere such as exercising specific religious artifacts spirituality will be promoted. Hospitals can also incorporate unrestricted visiting, decorative fountains, fireplaces, skylights and healing gardens to help provide a relaxing environment which decreases stress for their customer population.

Traditional hospitals using standard medical treatment and Western-educated personnel tend to treat the patient's physical being while ignoring other equally important aspects of the patient and the caregiver. Fortunately, healing hospitals have transformed the concept of healing through the principle of "Radical Love." Recognizing the equal importance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing for all members of the hospital environment, Radical Love enhances the entire wellbeing of the entire community.

One of the main goals of healthcare facilities is to provide the patients with a “healing environment”. The goal of the healing environment is to remove the patient from all the toxic and hazards to give them time to heal. Three concepts that help creating a stable environment will be explain in this paper. These concepts are the seen environment, the unseen environment, and the storied environment.

Therefore, what the main goal for nurse’s is to create an environment in the emergency department which would maintain to preserve the patient’s stillness even while medical procedures are being done so that distress will not rise and prevent the effect on the client’s health from getting

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