Implications of Spirituality in Managed Care Maylen Rodriguez Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care Jeney Park-Hearn January 10, 2015 Implications of Spirituality in Managed Care Spirituality in managed care is seemingly a transition from spirituality within the acute care setting. Managed care is the HMO/PPO or PTO health maintenance network, which uses the gatekeeper system to keep healthcare costs manageable. Spirituality within this framework is moved from the hospital
CONSIDERED. This study focused on hospital chapel. It will give insights about spiritual health of a person. The paper will also discuss how a spiritual health affects a person and how it will contribute to the society. Patient, relatives, or even health care providers go to hospital chapels and have different prayers. The aim of this paper is to know where the relatives, patients or even health care providers go if there is no chapel inside the hospital and they need to talk to God. This study
Spiritual Assessment Many people see spirituality as a concept that is larger than themselves. Often times spirituality and religion are intertwined in a way that makes them difficult to distinguish from one another. According to Jarvis (2006), spirituality is derived from each person's life experiences and personal effort to find purpose. Spiritual Assessment tools are important to gauge a patient's spiritual beliefs and to properly support them during illness. Spiritual Assessment Tools are
Gecewicz). Spirituality is defined as being in one with your body not just mentally but physically. Typically, spirituality is incorporated into addiction recovery because when someone is addicted, they are dependent on an object that keeps them motivated. Throughout history spirituality and addiction has been an ongoing topic, but more recently has been brought into the spotlight among counselors to serve as a link in therapy because it has a beneficial outcome. The term spirituality has become
The purpose of this paper is to describe my personal worldview on religion, spirituality, and culture, collaborate it with my choice of nursing theory that illustrates my philosophy in life and approach to patient care including their similarities. I will elaborate how my philosophy and nursing theory reinforce my perspective and decision-making towards my role as a future Nurse Practitioner. In this paper a specific example of my past or current practice will be point out and how my worldview and
became the first step in her theory of transcultural nursing (Leininger, 1978). After this breakthrough, Leininger returned to school to receive her PhD in Anthropology, becoming the first nurse anthropologist. Thus, her theory of transcultural nursing care was largely based off of her anthropological background (Rosenbaum, 1986). She has since created many transcultural nursing courses for baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral programs, as well as conducting extensive research, creating many publications
Spiritual Assessment Tool Spirituality involves the patient beliefs pertaining to their religion in relation to their mind, body, soul, and the overall physical and mental well being. Our sold especially needs spiritual restoration and faith building. (Lecture Note 5, GCU 2015, p.1). The purpose of the spiritual assessment tool is to identify ways in which a patient’s spiritual life will assist the health care provider in providing good quality medical care by incorporating their belief without
values, communicates the same way, has the same beliefs in health, develop the same health problems, or practice the same spirituality. The Mexican culture demonstrates differences in all of these aspects from other cultures practiced around the world. The differences among cultures make it important for nurses and healthcare providers to offer culturally competent care between each of them. Family has a different definition in
Cherokee Indians, one of the many Native American Tribes throughout the country today, share health issues such as historic trauma, substance abuse, diabetes, and spirituality. These four topics challenge the tribes since the start of them and because of that, the Cherokee Indians discover solutions in order to get past them. Hundreds of years ago, the Cherokee Indians were forced out of their land by the American government in a journey called, Trail of Tears. The members of the tribe marched
traditions, spiritual life, lang8uage, health status and social life. Heritage assessment is employed in the healthcare sector for various functions like assessment of a people’s culture, providing awareness with regards to health restoration, protection and maintenance. Heritage assessment is also employed by the nursing fraternity in provision of medical care that is culturally competent. This paper studies different cultural backgrounds with regards to health matters particularly on practices and