Breanna Watson Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity HLT-310V Spirituality In Healthcare June 27, 2012 As healthcare providers we are going to always encounter patients of different cultures, beliefs, and religions. Because of the diversity we face, we are also going to also have to learn to at times push our beliefs aside to be able to support and help care for our clients with unbiased opinions. Being that there are so many different religions, philosophies, etc knowing some background
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religions. It has a very diverse history and has gone through many stages to get to where it is today. As of 2010, a comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries found that there are approximately 2.18 billion followers of the Christian faith, of all ages around the world, representing nearly a third of the estimated 2010 global population of 6.9 billion. That is vast. So, how did the religion survive pressure, from both Judaism and Islam, and go on to become the leading religion in the
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My New Views on Religion Cesar Flores Religious Diversity in America “There is immense diversity within American Christianity—dozens of independent Protestant denominations or sects and various sub-groups within Catholicism—but the predominance of Christianity provides crucial context to any discussion of religious pluralism in the United States... Christianity may still dominate the religious landscape of the United States, but religious pluralism has now become its defining feature,”
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awash with diversity. A person can find differences in different religions, cultures and most importantly in various belief systems. This paper will examine three belief systems in order to show the reader how a belief system can shape certain responses to healthcare. The three religions that will be discussed are Native American spirituality, Islam and Buddhism faiths. Although these faiths are different they do have similarities between each other. Health care provider and faith diversity Native
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are intertwined subjects which will never be transformed. In a world filled with diversity and minds of liberty, war will always be fought for individual’s honor and pride, and the term just cannot be fully defined and understood by one’s mind. Should one have the right to believe? Without a doubt, faith leads people out of their misery, gives people the light of hope during the abyss of darkness. But the idea of faith cannot and would not exist without an involvement of personal assumptions, especially
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Australia is home to increase religious diversity and religious variety. Its current religious landscape is shaped through the dramatic effect of immigration, the movements to and from religions or denominations, the exploration of new religious movements and the acknowledgement of no religion. These many reasons have created an increase and decrease of many religious traditions, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity in Australia. Post war immigration is directly linked to the emergence of Australia’s
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University of Phoenix Material New Hire Communication Worksheet Select a company you are familiar with. Imagine that you work for the HR department of the company. You are tasked to develop a message to orient new hires to the company culture, process, procedures, and general information. Compose a message for new hires using the three-step process outlined in Ch. 5 of Business Communication. Step 1: Prewriting Review the AIM planning process in Ch. 5 of Business Communication including
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Diversity in Organisation • Diversity focuses on organisation demography, whereas inclusion focuses on the removal of obstacles to full participation and contribution of employees in organisation Inclusion: • Fairness and respect: o Equity o Non-discrimination • Value and belonging: o Uniqueness o Decision making o Connectedness Diversity: • Gender equality. • Cultural diversity: o Race. o Religion. o Cultural backgrounds
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have required times of prayer during the day and people of the Jewish faith are required to not work on Saturday to honor the Sabbath (Stern, 2011). Just these two examples have flown directly in the face of much of business schedules and practices in the past, and have required people who hold to these faiths to choose between their job and their religious beliefs. Business did not recognize the benefits of employing different faith paradigms as most business did not have an international component
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Hispanic American Diversity The Hispanic community presently comprises the fastest increasing ethnic group in the United States. According to information obtained from the United States Census Bureau “As of July 1, 2008 people of Hispanic origin comprise 15% of the nation’s total population” (Pearson Education, Inc. 2009). The Hispanic American population has surpassed African Americans as the major minority in America. According to an article on the website diversityinc “"Latino" and "Hispanic"
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