...Box 2. Personal reflection on the role of the hospital chaplain “There is a difference between religious care and spiritual care. A chaplain should be able to provide both. Religious care is rooted in a faith belief and the patient or family expect ritual which might involve prayer and/or sacrament. Probably only about one in 10 people in this country regularly attend a place of worship and would expect this. More of my time is spent supporting patients, families and staff with spiritual care. If we acknowledge the true holistic approach, spiritual care should be recognised and hopefully provided not only by the chaplain, but the whole health care team.” Reverend Nigel Griffin, Morriston Hospital, Swansea. An innovative study addressing patients’ spiritual needs incorporated the hospital chaplaincy service into the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) (Pugh et al, 2010). Over a period of six months all hospital patients started on the LCP were referred to the hospital chaplains. An initial visit was made and a calling card left in case further support was needed at a later date. The visit was then documented by the chaplain in the LCP documentation. The evaluation suggested that quality of care improved and there was less pressure on nurses. Although a preliminary concern was that spirituality was being imposed on patients and family members, this was unfounded and nurses felt the service was extremely valuable and should continue. Very few patients declined the offer of a chaplaincy...
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...Running head: MY NURSING ETHICS PAPER My Nursing Ethics Paper Grand Canyon University Course Instructor Date My Nursing Ethics Paper Professional Moral Compass A moral compass is the one that serves to direct a person to make a choice based on morals and virtues, or at times, character. There are four essential aspects of professional moral compass, they are; integrity, responsibility, compassion, and forgiveness (Kiel & lennick, 2006). Integrity means speaking the truth, standing up for rights, and keeping up with promises, being consistent with general philosophy, individual values, and beliefs. Integrity demonstrates nursing’s ethical commitment to providing compassionate care. The nurse recognizes the worth and privacy of each individual and therefore acts in a manner to respect the privacy and values of the patient. A nurse who practices integrity acts in a way that is consistent with what they understand will be the right thing to do. They possess a strong sense of themselves. Nurses accept the patients as social beings who must respect and engage with the moral position of others. Integrity is a rich and complex social virtue through which the individual is able to demonstrate their relationship with the values and customs of the communities of which they are members. Be responsible and accept the mistakes you have made and forgive others when they do the same. Compassion is viewed as a nurse’s most valuable quality. It is an essential element of nursing...
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...Running head: ANALYSIS OF ETHICAL DILEMMA Analysis of Ethical Dilemma Deanna Romain Grand Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care NRS 437V Jennifer Wood August 28, 2011 Analysis of Ethical Dilemma Is gender selection of a fetus ethical? With new advances in reproductive technology, parents can not only find out if their embryo has genetic abnormalities, they can also find out the gender of their embryo. The ethical dilemma is whether or not one should be able to choose their child’s gender before implantation. Some compare this method of gender selection to human cloning. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is the testing of the chromosomes of the embryo to determine genetic abnormalities and gender prior to in-vitro fertilization (IVF). In the United States, gender selection by PGD is considered a violation of ethical practices for non-medical purposes (Akchurin, n.d.) CNN.com reported recently that a new blood test has been discovered which can determine the sex of a fetus as early as seven weeks gestation. This achievement was reported in the Journal of American Medical Association in August. This technology is already starting ethical debates fearing parents will use this technology for sex determination and abort healthy fetuses (Ravitsky, 2011). This new technology could also be beneficial in determining gender if their child is at risk for a sex-linked disease such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy or hemophilia. In China and India, there...
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...Running head: HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Jolly Joseph Grand Canyon University HLT-310V Spirituality in Health Care Professor: Patricia Mullen 11/06/2011 Healing is the process of restoring the wellness. It can also refer as curing or soundness. While healing process is underway, the person who gets healed is achieving a spiritual totality. Healing takes place when a person becomes ill. During this restoring process, the illness is completely eradicated and allows the patient to gain maximum health before the illness. Healing is required for those who are suffering from serious illness. Healing is the way to obtain wellness and restoration of spirituality. Eric Chapman, who is the chief executive officer of the Baptist Healing Trust in Tennessee, Nashville suggest a healing hospital, which is capable of healing the illness and restore the spirituality and emotional elements of one’s life (Chapman, 2007). Advancement in technology, physical facility design, and culture also played a big role in the healing hospital. A healing hospital has many vital components and these components of a healing hospital are related to the spirituality. According to the author of Radical loving care: Building the healing hospital in America, a healing hospital has three key components they are healing physical environment, the integration of work design and technology, and culture of radical loving care (Chapman,...
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...head: HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm John Thompson Grand Canyon University: HLT 310V February 12, 2012 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Hospitals are constantly trying to improve. They are looking for ways to reduce costs, streamline treatments, more efficiently use staff, and improve patient satisfaction. In regard to its patients, a hospital’s role is to promote healing. “Although hospitals have long been thought of as places to cure disease, new ideas about what hospitals should be and how they should function are creating new challenges for hospital designers and caregivers” (Research Design Connections, 2004, ¶ 1). The healing hospital paradigm is a new concept that some hospitals are implementing to achieve a healing environment. This paper will: explore the reasoning behind this new model; discuss components of healing hospitals, including their connection to spirituality; and identify the challenges of implementing such a paradigm. Reasoning for Healing Hospital The healing hospital model both provides and reaps many benefits. The paradigm not only benefits the patient but also the healthcare team and the community in which it serves. It has been shown to result in “patient satisfaction, improved outcomes, caregiver satisfaction with increased chance for a positive sense of meaning in work and community satisfaction” (Zarren, n.d., p. 5). The institution that implements the healing hospital model...
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...Running head: Healing Hospital 1. Introduction Healing hospital is a place or rather a holistic and integrated environment where "Healing will take place more quickly, thoroughly, and meaningfully" with the entire staff ".... charged with the promotion of healing by creating an overall healing environment" (Jacobs, 2009). In essence therefore the healing hospital differs from the conventional hospital in that it provides for a multitude of levels of advancing the healing process; which includes, the community, the staff and a variety of technical and design aspects for placing healing into an advantageous context. Therefore, a healing hospital will provide not only for the physical aspects of healing but will also make provision for the psychological, social and spiritual aspects that integrate the various components into a comprehensive and inclusive process. In this sense the healing hospital has been described as an overall healing environment 2. Components of a Healing Hospital The healing hospital has been associated with the vision of a "Culture of Health" and with a more daring and innovative approach to healthcare than is usually the norm in our complex and often overly specialized and compartmentalized world (MCDH Adopts “Healing Hospital” Wellness Program). One of the central components of this culture of health is education. The education process is used in an integrated way to assist patients in the hospital as well as...
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...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction Healing hospital paradigm is a model in health care provision that focuses on recovery and return to wellness of the whole body. This is contrary to the cure model used in traditional hospital which focuses on eradicating the disease. Healing health care focus of the need of the entire being rather than focusing on curing the physical ailment. This concept advances the idea that apart from addressing the physical needs, the healing process should also address the patient’s emotional and spiritual needs. The healing hospital paradigm is made up of three major components; these include; a culture of loving care, a healing physical environment and an integrated work design and technology. However, there are several challenges experienced when attempting to implement the healing environment in the traditional hospital environment. This paper will discuss the components of healing hospitals and the challenges involved in implementing the healing environment. Components of a Healing Hospital Healing hospital paradigm lays more emphasis on the patient’s healing environment. This includes the kind of care the patient is receiving and the conditions the patient is exposed to when receiving treatment (Samueli Institute, 2010). Under the healing hospital paradigm, provision of care is not only limited to provision of medical intervention procedures and medication but also come down to how medical caregivers engage the patients and...
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...Healing Hospitals: A daring paradigm Mercy Cooper Grand Canyon University: Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V 11/24/13 Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Hospitals are embracing the paradigm of healing hospitals. This concept is based on research evidence that suggests that the environment of care has significant implications on patient outcomes. Creation of a healing environment thus represents a concerted effort to comprehensively address all the factors that contribute to the disease process (Giemer-Flanders, 2009). Healing physical environments comprise of the following components: healing physical environments, a culture of loving care, integration of technology into work design, and blended medicine. Healing hospitals, unlike traditional hospitals, concerned for the person as a whole. Caring for the whole person consists of attending to the persons mind, body, spirit, and the environment. Blended medicine, the first component of a healing hospital, refers to the use of both conventional medicine and complementary and alternative therapies. Conventional medicine is an evidence-based meaning that its clinical utility and effectiveness in the treatment of a given disease has been validated through high-quality clinical trials. Alternatively, the treatments may have been shown to be more effective in the treatment of a certain disease or they may have withstood the test of time. Complementary and alternative medicine, on the other hand, employs techniques that...
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...Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Bradley Smith Grand Canyon University: HLT-302 Due: 03/17/13 Healing hospitals are currently on the decline in health care America. Most health care providers have lost the true meaning of healing their patients holistically; both physically and spiritually. If healing hospitals started to come back, I believe that not only will the physical care of a patient increase. But patients will be happier and feel spiritually healed also. If healing hospitals were to make a comeback, hospitals and doctor’s offices would not seem so cold and unwelcoming to the patients. Even though there are challenges in creating a healing hospital, they are still a necessary component in the health care system for patients to feel spiritually healed when they leave. Components of a Healing Hospital Related to Spirituality Laurie Eberst, the president and CEO of Mercy Gilbert Medical Center describes a true healing hospital to, “include three key components: A healing physical environment, the integration of work design and technology, and a culture of radical loving care.” (Eberst, 2008). A Healing and Physical Environment When patients and their families enter the hospital, they are all under a lot of stress due to the illness of the patient. When a hospital provides aesthetically pleasing waiting rooms and doctor’s offices, it helps the patients and their families cope with that stress they are having. It is also important for a healing hospital...
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...A healing hospital is one that focuses on the wellness of the entire human being, this take into consideration the patient and family physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual need to ensure the patient including the family is cared for. There are many healing hospital that promote a healing environment reporting high patient satisfaction rate, according to Laurie Eberst, there are three components, to a healing hospital, and these are, a healing physical environment, the integration of work design and technology and a culture of Radical Loving Care. This paper will explore the components of a healing hospital and their relationship to spirituality. It will also explore the challenges of creating a healing environment. The first component of a healing hospital is that of a healing environment, this is one that considers the family as well as the patient; it takes into account all aspect of their health. Like all other buildings a healing hospital is more than just four walls, within those walls are all the different disciplines committed to providing the kind of excellent services required for healing a mind, body and soul. It requires a dedicated staff always willing to providing loving compassionate care. Another way of creating a healthy environment is to maintain a hospital that is conducive to a home environment, a home without background noises free announcements and paging. This serves to minimize patient’s anxiety level promoting...
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...Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Anna Hernandez Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V Richard Hudock July 27, 2014 Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Spirituality and religions, effects on health has become an increasing interest to scientist since the 1980’s. According to Smith (2006), spirituality has gained such a momentum that there are multiple articles and several textbooks on spirituality since the year of 1989. The consensus is developing that spirituality and religion are closely related to physical and psychological health and that spirituality and health are an important focus in nursing research (Smith, 2006). Spirituality, however, has many definitions. The majority accord that, it is defined as the manner by which persons seek meaning in their lives and experience transcendence-connectedness to that which is beyond the self (Smith, 2006, p. 41). Spirituality has two dimensions and is a highly complex concept. There are two components of spirituality that are generally described. The vertical, which describes the transcendent, is the connection between a patients (inner body) or something outside such as, a higher power or the divine (Smith, 2006). The horizontal component relates to the connection between persons. This consists of individual and social support that are, set in, the spiritual context by religious setting and spiritual relationships (Smith, 2006). The American Association of Critical Care Nursing (2006)...
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...Spirituality in Healing Hospitals Ryan Sidebottom April 22, 2012 HLT 310V Spirituality in Healthcare Grand Canyon University 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 distinguish the difference between a designated healing hospital and one that is not. According to the Baptist Healing Trust of Nashville Tennessee, the three key components of a healing hospital are: A healing physical environment; the integration of work and design technology; A culture of “Radical Loving Care” (Eberst 2008). To achieve the designation of being a “healing hospital” all three of these components must be put into place from both the physical and spiritual aspect. The component of providing a healing physical environment is much different than having a facility that has the capability of saving lives, performing surgeries, or simply treating illness. While all of these things are necessary, a healing hospital must be able to...
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...Healing Hospital – A Daring Paradigm The healing hospital model is a new paradigm that focuses treatment on both the physical and spiritual needs of patients. In fact, it is intent on ensuring that the patient achieves whole body wellness, and not only disease management. As such, it advances the concept that for healing to be complete, the physical needs should be addressed in concurrence with the patient’s spiritual and emotional needs. With regards to the spiritual needs, the concept draws ideas from the Bible. For instance, 1st Corinthians 12:9 clearly indicates that human beings were given the spirit of healing to meet spiritual needs. To achieve this goal, the concept applies three principal components to include, adopting loving care as a culture, meeting physical needs, and an integrated work technology and design. On the other hand, the concept is faced by challenges that hinder its effectiveness and efficiency (Chapman, 2005). This paper discusses the components and difficulties of a healing hospital as a daring paradigm. As earlier indicated, a healing hospital has three principal components. This is because it lays emphasis on the healing environment, ensuring that care provision is not limited to medication and medical procedures, but also to how the patients and their families are involved in the process of treatment. In essence, the concept introduces a new paradigm whereby the body is believed to constitute a spirit, mind and physical form that must be taken...
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...HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM Healthcare can be a very demanding field where professionals are overworked and burnt out which in turn impacts the care of the patient. Patients’ deserve to have compassionate and loving care while they are ill and in an extremely vulnerable state. The concept of the “Healing Hospital” is traditionally based on the belief that healthcare must grow from deep compassion (Baptist Healing Trust, n.d.). The hospital environment is generally a place for diagnosing and treating of illness and disease with the implementation of technology and pharmaceuticals. The concept of focusing on the person as a whole is often missed or not even thought of when a patient is seeking medical care or is hospitalized. Patients are placed in a very vulnerable situation upon admission to the hospital where they are losing their personal freedom and dignity. The Healing Hospital is about compassion and skill accompanying the use of new technology and drugs (Chapman, 2011). Components of a Healing Hospital The “Healing Hospital” as described in Radical Loving Care is not made of just walls, windows and mortar, but exudes the culture of love and caring (Chapman, 2011). The three fundamental components of this hospital are a healing physical environment, the integration of work design and technology, and the culture of radical loving care. When these components intertwine with the framework of the Golden Thread, they merge together to create an environment that...
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...The Healing Hospital Jackie M. Long Grand Canyon University Foundations of Spirituality in Healthcare HLT 310V-0103 Andre Mooney 09/16/2011 The Healing Hospital Fighting for your health when you are not feeling well demands lots of rest, less worry and strain. One needs the love and affection from family and friends. Imagine a hospital that provided all of that. All the patient rooms would be filled with warm and tranquil colors, a separate space for family members to sleep, nurses and physicals who treated all patients with the same dignity and respect and love that they would give to their own family. The hospital grounds would have beautiful gardens so the patients can have a place besides the chapel to pray. Night time in the hospital would be a time for true rest; not a time that patients would be awakened through the night to run a blood test. Patient Education would be provided when it’s convenient for not only the patient but for the family as well. The hospital chaplain minister would be willingly available anytime day or night when needed. Nurses would not only be available for providing medical care but also available for emotional support at those times when the patient just needs someone to talk to. These are just a few of the characteristics that one would anticipate to experience at a Healing Hospital. The Healing Hospital is awarded its accreditation through the Healing Baptist Trust. To acquire this designation, a hospital must embody three components:...
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