Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity The United States has always been the symbol of freedom of religion and health care today has needed to increase its knowledge in incorporating the many different religions/spiritual beliefs in order to provide a more holistic approach to care. As health care providers we should not look in validating our own practice in regards to religion or spirituality but to comprehend and learn to see the patterns of similarities and differences in order to provide holistic care to our patients. As religious and spiritual beliefs are never permanent and are constantly changing and/or influenced by government, thinkers, historical events, technology and the shifting values of cultures the study of religions/spirituality should be continuous for all health care providers. The Native American, Buddhism, and Sikhism have some similar traits and values imbedded in their practiced religions that resemble the Christian Faith and medical providers needs to be aware and able to accommodate them in order to provide holistic care. Native American There are three key patterns seen in most Native American religions they are the human relationship with nature, framing of time and space and respect for gods/ancestors. The human relationship with nature known as animism, everything is seen as part of the same reality and every object has a spirt, is a practice where there is little distinction between humans and animals. Time and space is sacred, cyclical,
Cultural diversity in the health care setting is increasing each year. Knowing how to care for patients of different religious and spiritual faiths is essential to providing high-quality, patient-centered care. The author of this paper will research three lesser-known religions; Taoism, Sikhism and Shamanism. Through this paper, she will provide a brief background on each of the three religions and present information regarding spiritual perspectives on healing, critical components of healing and health care considerations associated with each religion.
Native American culture is, in my opinion, the most discrete culture I’ve ever known about. They are the gods of folk tales. Their folk tales date back to the B.C. era. This is unlike the Hispanic culture, where you don’t hear about many. This culture also is very conservative about food. They only hunt buffalo and only kill what they need. The Native American culture is also religiously heavy into spirits. One well-known spirit is called ‘Great Spirit’. This is unlike Hispanic
The Indigenous people believed the all living things were a part of nature and living things had a spirit. For many indigenous people, everything in the cosmos (whole universe) is intimately related and that there is kinship with all creations. According to Oren Lyons, an elder of the Onondaga Nation Wolf Clan, the indigenous people view their kinship with all creation consider themselves the caretakers of the earth, they saw "Everything as Alive": from rocks to water, to mountains, plants, and animals…and all things rely on each other. “That’s what we Indians believe”.
The North American community in today’s worlds has embraced Christianity, Muslim and other popular religious beliefs. Finding the ancient religious practices in action is rare, but not impossible. The communities had their own believes concerning gods and philosophies of good and evil before they were colonized. The communities have lost most of their beliefs and practices as they took place in the earlier community to popular religions which were introduced during and after the colonialism periods (Bonvillain and Porter 23-43).
In the United States of America people belong to different society, religions and nations live respectively. This is the primary motivation behind why this nation is more novel than different nations. One of the principle challenges that health care team confront consistently is to recognize and comprehend diverse religions. Christianity and Sikhism are the religions discussed by the writer in this paper are not extremely distinguished from each other. Every religion has its own principles and regulations and rules so one must think what will fit in with that religion. As a health care provider we are not obliged to know each and every point of interest of all religions. However, in the meantime we shouldn't disregard the basic concept of all