Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm
The concentration of a healing hospital is to make an environment which aids to decrease the tension level of patients and their kin. When the patients are transferred to the hospitals they went through a lot of tension and anxiety like, frightening of the unknown, hurting therapeutic processes, modification in financial status because of the increasing expenses due to hospitalizing and are considerable as most hard times of their life. By careful self evaluation of the fact that spirituality is one of the greatest key factor in the healing recovery stage, the healing hospitals goal is to enhance overall wellness of the patients and their relatives like brain, spiritual, and feeling needs of life (Eberst, 2008). This essay descript the factors of healing hospitals, their relation to spirituality, the mountains and barriers in making a healing environment and a biblical message that supports the procedure of healing hospitals.
` Factors of a Healing Hospital and their Relation to Spirituality
The healing hospital model focused on treating not only the epidemic disease or ill state of the patient but also the spiritual and feeling needs of the patient. According to Erie Chapman, a patient needs not only outer body healing but also healing of the psychological state of mind and spiritual self. There are three main factors of healing hospitals and they are making a healing in the physical sense of the environment, bringing together work style, technology, and a tradition of Extreme Love Care.
A Healing Physical Environment
Providing a loving and compassion filled environment that aesthetically pleases and gives comfort to the sick and relatives, and it enhances the healing steps. A still environm...
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...ities made change from cure only to over all healing approach. Patient-centered care, keeps patient informed, hourly round, etc will help to bring out the overall well being of the patient. Through spirituality, the healing hospital module focuses on the compassion care and radical affection which helps to better hope and concepts needed to cope with the tension of their vitality.
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