Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity Spirituality

Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity

Spirituality In Health Care

HLT-310V-0104

EMORY DAVIS

Mr. Saracouli, your paper addresses the 3 diverse faiths and identifies some of their components of care and healing. These could be developed more. This will give greater opportunity to discuss more specific comparisons and contrasts of these components with those of Christianity, which is a significantly key element of this assignment (as highlighted in the Mod 2 Assignment Assist and Assignment Clarification). The paper (final draft) can be benefitted by weaving in specific comparisons and contrasts within each faith section... As you go along. Consider organizing 3 faiths in separate paragraphs (see Buddhism below). [Review the Faith Diversity Recommended Content Format attached to Mod 2 Announcement.]

Module 2 Faith Diversity Assignment requirements, per syllabus and assignment assist:

* Research three diverse faiths. Yes.

* Compare the philosophy of providing care from the perspective of each of these three faiths with that of the Christian perspective and your own personal perspective. Needs further development.

* summarize your findings and compare and contrast the different belief systems (with respect to the healing process), reinforcing major themes with insights gained from your research. Needs further development.

* In your paper, Do Research and Address questions 1-2 listed in your assignment: Yes.

(1) What is their spiritual perspective on healing?

(2) What are the critical components of healing, such as prayer, meditation, belief, family, diet, death, afterlife, modesty, same sex caregivers, hygiene, etc.

In your conclusion, describe what you have learned from your research and how this learning can be applied to a health care provider practice. Yes.

An abstract. No. Abstract should address briefly: purpose/thesis statement, methodology, observations, and outcomes/results. Review APA guidelines (see Student Success Center>Writing Center; or, google Purdue Owl). Separate page, after title page.

1250-1500 words. Yes.

Abstract

It is commonplace in cultures and religions around the world and spanning across decades and centuries to have a strong link between the healing arts and faith and even modern hospitals and doctor offices are not exempt. Indeed, many hospitals and doctor's offices have strong if not direct religious affiliations such as Catholics and many Protestant faiths. The United States and other Western nations are far from being the only example of this as Hindus, Shintoist and Sikhs follow the same pattern in their corners of the world even including pockets in Western nations like the United States and Europe. This report explores how these integrations manifest and traits of these integrated systems around the world.

HEALTH CARE PROVIDER AND FAITH DIVERSITY

Healthcare, Faith and Healing

Often times, healing and faith go directly hand in hand with one another. Every religious tradition has its own set of beliefs on treatment, healing and the general administration of medicine. While we take our understanding of healthcare and faith from the well-defined intersection of medicine and Christianity, there are broad variations in belief and practice that enter into the medical traditions and values of every religious denomination. The discussion here, which addresses elements of spirituality in healthcare treatment for adherents to the Sikh, Shinto and Buddhist faiths, proceeds from a Christian healthcare perspective in the eyes of many, but certainly not close to all, industry observers and practitioners.

To initiate the discussion, it is appropriate to first consider some of the Christian care-giving values that drive this perspective. Christian ethicality and theology are important forces in healing, especially through its invocation of spiritual hope. Hope is a sentiment, which has commanded recognition as bearing a place of importance in human affairs throughout recorded history. This creates a documented association between hope and such important institutions as politics, philosophy and religion.

To this end, the Bible makes numerous references to the concept and importance of hope. An oft-quoted passage provides that there are "three things that last forever-faith, hope, and love." (1 Corinthians 13:13, New Living Translation). The point to the close association between hope and these other crucial dynamics of human sentiment. Somewhat less immediately straightforward is another verse describing hope, which conjectures, "but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently" (Romans 8: 24-25, New International Version). In the context of healing, bringing this kind of hope to patients is a distinctly Christian principle that connects the spiritual, emotional and practical dimensions of healing into a distinctly humanistic healing strategy.

This mode of spirituality is shared by other faiths but there are some variations that are highly driven by mode of belief. Indeed, hope is a doctrine that is used to by Christian adherents to encourage fortitude in fighting illness. But it may also sometimes serve the purpose of helping one accept and prepare for mortality. This is an orientation, which is shared by the Sikh religion.

Here, the concept of karma influences the manner in which adherents face their own mortality. According to QLD (2011), "Sikhs are encouraged to accept death and illness as part of life and the will of God. Due to the Sikh belief in the doctrine of karma, some Sikh patients may be accepting of death." (p. 16)

While these spiritual ideals of Sikhs and Christians are not altogether different in their medical implementation, the concept of karma does distinguish the belief system of patients subscribing to the former faith as opposed to the latter.

It is also on the issue of death that such religious traditions as Shintoism drawn their greatest distinction.