Spirituality and Religion in Health Care

Question: Discuss the report is been divided into 2 parts of interview details analysis? Answer: Introduction The report is been divided into 2 parts of interview details analysis. The spiritual need of a patient is been determined from a Heal Care Personnels perspective to aid and facilitate the same to the patient. A family friend was chosen for the interview to understand the perspective of an ordinary citizen about options they feel the need to be spiritual during a time of trauma or medical distress. The same shall be used as a qualitative primary survey data to prepare the case analysis which would be done in part two for the same. Part 1 : The Interview The subject of the interview was a Lady with an age of 55 years who have undergone a Kidney disease treatment 8 months back was interviewed in the case. The ethnicity of the patient was that she was a Hindu by birth who was born in India and brought up in her Indian family ad had been a US citizen after her marriage with an American citizen at the age of 25 when she travelled to US. For past 30 years she had been a practicing Hindu, however she admits that her Husband or the family are not much into spirituality or religion followers of any particular kind of their Catholic faith. Hence the lady was a religious and spiritual follower of Hindu faith while the family was non-religious open minded people who never had an objection to the patients spiritual or cultural tilt. Nevertheless, the Joint Commission on Accreditation for Health Care Organization (JCAHO) and Commission on Accreditation of rehabilitation (CARF) mandate spiritual assessment to meet patients spiritual needs especially in those cases here quality of life, meeting social obligations, controlling pain and maintain social, emotional and spiritual needs. The questions posed were based on the meaning of life, her expressions and thought process about morality, acceptance of real life events like death and birth, belonging, pain and its acceptance like spiritually motivated questions. She was a Hindu who believed in reincarnation or rebirth of an individual ad suggested that the soul do not die only the body changes. Thus she accepted birth and death as a natural process. The fallout of the same was that she considered pain and suffering as a matter of Fate over her physical disabilities and so she thought that the pain and sufferings was due to existence of the body and that it is a agree able that body needs to endure pain. Thus strangely she decides to find quality over pain in her lifestyle. Thus she stressed in accepting the beauty of life over the pain and sufferings as the concept was that pain and bell being are two sides of same coin called living. There was a stark resemblance to death acceptance in the lady while she also relived that her life is never over I her belief. Thus their as a help that the medical practitioner got that he could motivate the patient to feel psychologically strong in case the pain is high or sufferings are above the limits (Bravewell.org, 2015). Part 2: Analysis Spirituality or emotional support and need for such support has been debated in patient health care since long. Puchalski (2001) suggested in his interview that the seed of hope and wellbeing is seeded inside the deep feelings of Hope. The hope is one aspect that lets the patient fight back in cases where mental strength and will power is needed. Interestingly in 2004 the US body of NCCM and NIH did a survey among 31000 adults where the findings were startling the suggested that prayers and religious practices are the most commonly used approach among all the other healing methods and practices mentioned in the survey. Thus a strong bond of inculcating futuristic hope and wellbeing is a part of medical practice at times in the treatment process. () ascribes that the modern day healing processes generally have included meditation, pastoral counseling, compassion, praying sessions are al made part of the process not only to boost the patients morale but also the family of the sufferer. Thus in a integrated health care system that provides good amount of spirituality along with scientific medical treatment methodology so as to make the treatment wholesome where both health and spiritual needs of the patients are catered. Interestingly, Tait et al. (2011) observes that prayers have a unquantifiable nature to give the patient a support system that shows the patient their own inside and thus their future destiny so that they can cope with whatever awaits with a bold heart. The Hindu patient was in the same line had adopted meditation and chanting for of Hindu praying which has helped her to deal with whatever awaits her or her health in future Spirituality have made her soul strong to give her the belief that the soul is indestructible and the body changes and gets the pain while she with her consciousness and her soul shall keep existing even after her death. Thus this small belief has made her to cope with physical pain and sufferings making her bolder and stronger for whatever result awaits her in the future. She could adopt and accept the thought like life and death as a natural process giving her the confidence to deal with her ailment, mentally which in turn have physically helped her in coping with her problems. Conclusion Coping with various physical condition have a mental precondition where the anxiety and what next like fears have a great way to be dealt with, which is the utility of including spirituality in treatment. This boosts the morale of the patient ad gives them the mental condition to deal with the physical trauma and pain with a strong faith and belief system that is the outcome of spirituality. The concept of adding spirituality in health care is getting a pace for itself in integrated medical practices. Since faith and hope can be an asset to the sufferer it helps in building a strong psychic framework to fight with pain and trauma and acts as a great asset to give the best of treatment by caregiver when the mental stability is strengthened with spiritual interventions List of References Bravewell.org, (2015). Spirituality and Religion in Health Care - The Bravewell Collaborative. [online] Available at: https://www.bravewell.org/integrative_medicine/philosophical_foundation/spirituality_and_healthcare/ [Accessed 19 Jun. 2015]. Puchalski, C. (2001). The role of spirituality in health care. Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), [online] 14(4), p.352. 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