Healing Hospital Research Paper

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Healing Hospitals A Healing hospital based on the provision of patient care that focuses on recovery the whole body, which is different from care provides by traditional hospital that focuses on medical treatment of the disease. Apart from providing the physical needs, the healing process should include the patients and their family’s emotional and spiritual needs. The aim of this paper is to discuss the healing Hospital paradigm, the elements of healing hospital and its spiritual relationship. Further, discuss the challenges of creating a healing environment, its barrier and complexities and provide bible scriptures that support a healing concept.
Components of Healing Hospitals The healing hospital encompasses three main components; such …show more content…

They see patient’s diversity as means of human empirical richness and does not isolate due to diversity. Healing hospitals does not see language and cultural beliefs as a barrier to optimal healing experience (Zarren, n.d). Healing hospital create a more harmonious working environment, which promotes patients’ healing as well as the employees. There is an increase in retention of the employees in a healing hospital. In a healing hospital, spiritual strength are encouraged, and spiritual needs are provided (Zarren, …show more content…

This challenges includes; finance is one of the challenges that can be encounter while attempting to implement a healing hospital environment. (Geffen, 2004). Before healing environment can be achieved one need to invest on facility construction, technology, employment and staff training in order to ensure that hospital environment has been integrated with the healing process.
Secondly, legal challenges also affect the implementation of a healing environment, such as increase rates of litigation and escalating cost of insurance premium (Geffen, 2004). There will more cases of litigations due to healing concept have not fully accepted in health care. Staffing organization also poses a challenge to this healing concept. In this system, every staff are seen as equally important and should be treated equal in the patient care (Geffen, 2004).
Lastly, ethical challenges, traditional hospital focuses treating patient’s disease utilizing sound supported scientific technique and approach while the healing hospital focus on providing patients physical, emotional and spiritual needs. (Geffen, 2004). This means that some technique used will focus on patients’ beliefs, these will cause a problem because most people serving by these organizations are from different culture, values and

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