The document discusses the concept of a healing hospital paradigm. A healing hospital focuses on caring for the patient's overall well-being, not just their disease, by providing compassionate and loving care. It aims to address patients' physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual needs. Creating a healing hospital environment faces several challenges, such as gaining staff buy-in and prioritizing emotional/spiritual care alongside physical care. Key components include a healing physical space, integrated work design/technology, and embracing a culture of radical loving care.

1. The Healing Hospital Paradigm
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healing-hospital-paradigm/ ?Healing Hospital: A Daring ParadigmName:Course Name and
Number:Course Instructor:Institution:Date Due: Introduction There is a crucial theme
that is drastically emerging in most of the healthcare setting mainly involving a Healing
Hospital. This provides a situation whereby patients and families usually feel less stressed
at healthcare facilities since know dedicated employees are taking care of them. Therefore,
the focus is mainly on the patient and their care; whereas not the disease. Therefore, the
patient is assured that hospital encounters will be part of loving service as well as
competent clinical care. Thus, according to Chapman (2011) A Healing Hospital is actually
the aspect of serving others. However, the healing paradigm consists of all aspects of an
individual; mental, physical, and spiritual. Moreover, as a part of the healing hospital
paradigm, it is necessary to address the family’s emotional, cognitive and spiritual concerns
which is crucial in helping with coping. Apparently, care is supposed to go beyond the
physical aspect thereby involving a holistic approach (Burkhadt, 2010).Additionally, a
Healing Hospital can be regarded as a concept in which a continuous process of providing
loving care takes place throughout the healthcare setting with skill and kindness from all
the caregivers leaders included to all the patients as well as to each other (Chapman, 2011).
Therefore, this environment of loving and caring service ensures incorporation of loving
care as well as clinical care in a vision that is new and exciting towards clinical excellence.
Moreover, it doesn’t despise modern technology, however, true excellence is usually built
on most significant principle of loving service and care to human (O’Brien, 2010).Moreover,
a healing hospital is actually based on the ancient tradition and believe that love is found at
the healing center. However, within this framework, the Golden Thread which symbolizes
our faith in God needs striking of a balance among the most recent and advanced scientific
advancements together with the needs of the human spirit. In addition, the healthcare
providers are required to take of all these considerations. Thus, in order for a hospital to
be truly healing, then the continuity of Golden Thread must be adhered to, since it is the
Golden Thread which connects both the patients and healers (Burkhadt, 2010).The key
components of a Healing Hospital However, the concept of a Healing Hospital
embraces various components. Thus, the “healing hospital” as it is discussed by Erie
Chapman in the Radical Loving Care does not just consist of walls, windows as well as the
mortar but also involves the culture of caring and love (Chapman, 2011). Therefore, there
are three fundamental components of the Healing Hospital such as a healing physical

2. environment, also the integrating of work design as well as technology and finally the
Radical Loving Care culture (Chapman, 2011).For instance, the concept of a healing physical
environment does not only take into consideration the care for patients, but also the way in
which the healthcare staff usually engage with their families as caregivers. Thus, by the
creation of a loving, compassionate, as well as an environment that is aesthetically pleasing
it therefore possible to help patients as well as their families to cope with illness and stress
(Burkhadt, 2010). The second component of the Healing Hospital which is the integration of
work design together with technology facilitates the staff at healthcare centers to work
more efficiently and effectively while at the same time providing additional security and
privacy the patients. Also, with the utilization the most advanced and recent technology
assists in providing an environment crucial for healing.The third component and the most
vital is embracing a Radical Loving Care culture, which is the philosophy strongly advocated
by Erie Chapman a healthcare industry leader. However, the embracing of this philosophy,
in healthcare settings leads to the development of a culture of compassionate care, while
at the same time reminding the healthcare workers of their crucial role in the healthcare
setting (Chapman, 2011). This therefore promotes the patient’s healing through a holistic
approach ensuring that not only the patient’s physical needs are met but also the emotional
and spiritual needs (O’Brien, 2010).Moreover, both healing and spirituality are so much
related with the components of a Healing Hospital hence they should be prioritized at each
patient’s stay in the hospital. However, considering many hospitals managements, they
have become money hungry and their main worry is financial challenges while quality
and safety ranks low down the list. However, spirituality as well as loving care rarely make
the list in many healthcare facilities (Chapman, 2011).Additionally, the hospitals are
required to be more than mere places involved in physical care but also include loving care
and spirituality (Chapman, 2011). This is mainly because spirituality has for a long time
now been shown to positively affect health potential of someone since the spirit, the mind
as well as the body all of them works as one entity. Therefore spirituality is a crucial part of
the life of everyone. This therefore implies that spiritual care is no longer a matter of choice,
but a crucial part of the professional mandate that must be adhered to in the nursing
profession as well as the regulating organizations. Therefore, the American Nurses
association, The International Code of Ethics as well as other organizations usually mandate
the inclusion of the spiritual care in the patient’s care initial assessment planning (O’Brien,
2010). Challenges of creating a Healing Hospital The creating of a healing
environment usually involve numerous challenges, thus overcoming the barriers presented
by such challenges is very essential towards the growing of a Healing Hospital. This is
mainly because a Healing Hospital is not merely built with mortar and bricks but it is
composed of three distinct qualities; that is, a strong commitment to effective leadership,
structures and systems as well as teaching through inquiry and dialogue (O’Brien, 2010).
However, the major challenge of attaining this situation is the absence of willingness of
some healthcare providers to embrace the aspects of a Healing Hospital establishment. In
addition, a Healing Hospital embraces compassionate care as well as respect for emotional,
physical and spiritual needs of the patients which fosters the fostering healing and
wholeness (Chapman, 2011). Achieving this is however, a challenge since it involves all the

3. healthcare staff and it would take some time to ensure that they are all on
board. Additionally, there are some biblical scriptures ing the concept of love, compassion,
and faith as crucial cornerstones to healthcare provision. For instance, we learn in the Old
Testament from Genesis Scriptures the value of life. Thus, in the Book of Genesis (Genesis
1:26), God man in His own image and likeness and instilled to him the breath of life. Also, in
the New Testament the Book of John 10:11, shows the compassionate care and love which
we should have since a good shepherd devotes his life for the sheep, where the sheep can
be regarded as the patient and the shepherd is the healthcare
providers. Conclusion The Healing Hospital is actually one of the most crucial theme
that has emerged in the healthcare settings whereby it is involved in ensuring that there is
provision of compassionate and loving care to the patients and their families. Thus, it also
prioritizes the emotional and spiritual care in addition to the physical one which fosters
quick recovery of patients. ReferencesBurkhadt, M.A. (2010). Ethics and issues in
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(2011). Radical loving care: Building the healing hospital in America. Nashville, TN: Eric
Chapman Foundation.O’Brien, M.E. (2010). Spirituality in nursing: Standing on holy
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