Focus of Medicine and Health Care Tended

Question: Consider how the components of a healing hospital might influence your philosophy of caregiving? 1) describe the components of a healing hospital and their relationship to spirituality.? 2) What are the challenges of creating a healing environment in the light of the barriers and complexities of the hospital environment? 3) Include bibical aspects that support the concept of a healing hospital? Answer: 1. Healing Hospital and its Paradigm Introduction: In the past centuries the focus of medicine and health care tended to change to a more caring and service based theory to a more cure-oriented model and advanced technological model. The advanced technology has resulted in the development of new medicines which had an increase in the ability to prolong the life span of every individual. However, most of the physicians have attempted to balance their ways of care in a more spiritual way and recognize the modern times spirituality which is linked with health care. This compassionate and spiritual care involves serving an individual in terms of the social, spiritual, emotional and physical manners. Serving the patients in a spiritual way usually involves gestures like holding their hands, talking about things that are important to them and also spending time with them. This has a very big impact on the patients as they value these experiences with their physicians. Many of the researches and studies showed that the people who exercise r egular spiritual practices usually live longer. A healing environment in a health care organization helps to reduce stress and promote healing to the patients. It is also said that the way the hospitals have been designed according to their choice of very bland color schemes, small and cramped patient rooms, huge halls that echo contribute to the increase in stress of the patients. This not only hinders the ability of a patient to heal but also can affect the staffs productivity. Also because of the poor structure and designing of the hospital the staff and the nurses spend a lot of time in collecting the care products and spend time walking from one end to another. If these facilities were designed more effectively the staff will be able to save time and spend it more with the patients. 2. Challenges of creating a healing environment in a hospital: The physical environment of a hospital and its healthcare design is guided mainly guided by the researches to benefit the patients and the staff of the hospital. Many studies proved that how a good hospital design can make a positive impact on the clinical outcomes. There are many of factors that were considered like the use of eco-friendly furniture, the noise levels, type of lighting and good ventilation. Studies also proved that these improved hospital designs resulted in reduced patient stress and outcomes, increased the safety of the patients, reduced the stress and fatigue of the staff and also improved the overall quality of the healthcare. In many of the critical environments like the operation theatres and Intensive care units to create a healing environment it takes a lot of specialized methods and techniques so that they can meet the requirements of the patients and overcome all the barriers and obstacles. These facilities which are to be given to the sick patients could b e obstructed by factors like low technology, financial problems and inadequate infrastructure of the hospital. Hence it is useful sometimes to provide financial as well as technological support to the expertise in order to meet the necessary requirements. The environments of the hospital should also be a calm and quiet place but certain times the noise pollution surrounding it can very difficult to control as few hospitals are being constructed in the town areas where they experience noises produced by a lot of crowd of people, automobiles and chaos. It can also be seen that many different patients face a lot of difficult challenges of the society who are suffering from different serious ailments and diseases and this results in the need for an appeal by different individuals in various manners and thus complicates to create a healing environment. Therefore its very difficult to make a balance between the demands of certain cultures and the advancements of science faces many challen ges in creating a healing environment. It also requires the ability to differentiate between the comforts and habits needed by the patients from the several options that are available to them. Hence to provide all these standard requirements by the hospitals can also lead to complicate the creation of a healing environment. The hospital is a very safe and secured place for the patients as well as for the working staffs therefore to ensure this safety is a very difficult task and a big challenge to the hospital. To create a healing environment to meet the needs of the majority of the patients can also be very challenging in the areas of their completion and sustainability. It is also seen that many individuals who want to help in creating a healing environment are faced by many challenges like the critics and other opposite views of people who tend to get jealous of their growing projects and want to hinder their growth. 3. A Biblical perspective on healing: There are many Biblical themes that are related to the creation of a healing environment and health issues. For example it can be seen that in the bible the Law of Moses refers to many different management and diagnosis for all the infectious diseases. The people were the ones assigned as priests to diagnose the diseases and confirm healing to the patients. There were also many such laws which were related to the public health and hygiene issues which were very adverse in those times. In a verse in the Bible states that God told Moses that if we listen carefully to the voice of God to do what is right in his eyes and also pay attention to his commands then we would not face the trouble of any of the diseases as the Lord is the One who heals all. However this is believed to be partly because of the fact that by obeying these laws it helps the people to be healthy and also that God brings blessing to the patient who needs healing whereas disobedience brings only curses that includes al l the diseases that comes to the person. 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