Creating a Healing Environment

Ancient Perspective Creating a Healing Environment in the Icu

edge, those are not the only factors that influence patient recovery. This chapter focuses on the intensive care environment, examining how it can influence physiologic measures and the holistic needs of the patient and family. Other modalities (e.g., spirituality and prayer) that may enhance a healing environment for the patient are described in Chapter 9. Many designs of critical care units p...

Creating healing environments.

In 2004 two organizations, the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, Washington, DC, and the Supportive Care Coalition: Pursuing Excellence in Palliative Care, Portland, OR, collaborated in an experiment seeking antidotes to the depersonalization of health care. Their "Hospital-Based Spirituality Initiative: Creating Healing Environments" was intended to achieve two objective...

Creating healing organizations.

a O s fi o t l hen Greg Carlson became CEO of a newly merged hospital, he was faced with a dilemma. How was he going to lend two cultures while maintaining moale and avoiding layoffs? Surely a dauntng task. Carlson (whose doctoral thesis xamined mortality rates for hospital-emloyed versus contract cardiac surgeons— he conclusion was in favor of employee odel), decided to create a “culture desig...

Creating healing workplaces.

b m a 2 s w c r f c i h s c w c o b aroshi, or death by overwork, is commonly known and feared among Japanese workers. When the Japanese government started eleasing data in the 1980s about these udden deaths by heart attack and stroke, hey found that they were caused by reorted occupational stress, long working ours, shift work, irregular work, lack of ontrol, and unpaid overtime, mostly as a e...

The Power of Talk 1 The Power of Talk – Creating a Healing Environment