Discussion

One of the five barriers that challenge the establishment of a Healing Hospital is technology and drugs. Within the context of the hospital setting, barriers and complications must be overcome to form a healing environment. The latest technology and drugs may be enchanting but more importantly the employees at a healing hospital need to embrace the human spirit and incorporate genuine love, compassion, and selflessness in their daily encounters with the patients and other staff. Even though technology and drugs are used for the patient’s needs, who of us would like to be attended in our most agonizing, moments of pain- or in our dying moments of life- by a robot(Chapman, 2010). Mental, emotional, and physical well-being are highly important. In hospital setting patient need rest and sleep letting their bodies time to heal. Nowadays hospitals are equipped with technological developments. (i.e., multiple monitors, beepers, buzzers, paging systems, telephones, carts, wheel chairs & gurneys, hospital beds that are electric, wireless phones and nurses call systems). Health care members should always keep in mind that this is supposed to be a HEALING environment. It should be acoustically designed to be healing environment. Health care members should be trained well so as to promote noise free atmosphere. This in turn creates a lower stress environment for the staff with fewer distractions, thus decrease in common medical errors. But these thrilling innovative growths have become so prevailing that we are misplacing our view of other healing fundamentals such as the loving-care method and the notion that body, mind, and spirit are cohesive. Technology and drugs should be also balanced by identifying the role of affectionate attention for hospitalized patient(Chapman, 2010). There needs to be a continuous chain of caring from everybody in the healing hospital in order for there to be a loving and caring relationship between everyone. Nurses need to take time with their patients. This will build the trusting relationship and allow the patient opportunities to show or express spiritual distress.