Aim The Department of Spirituality and Wellbeing will serve as a spiritual support in providing spiritual care to those in need (irrespective of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, creed or caste) and to respect and support each soul as they are, thereby enabling the provision of the highest form of spiritual love. Overall Objectives • To expose all staff, patients, their relatives, and guests to spirituality in the hospital through various means. • To create opportunities for staff to dialogue on what spiritual care looks and feel like. • To streamline all spiritual care activities currently happening in the hospital under one umbrella, through the department of spirituality and wellbeing. • To foster Spiritual empowerment of staff and their teams by training all care givers on spiritual skills. • To foster a balance between spiritual and professional behaviour to develop basic systems around giving the patient a spiritual experience. • To bridge the gap between theory and practice of integrating spirituality in to healing Subtle Objectives • To apply the powerful wisdom and practice of spirituality in a receptive healing environment • To integrate care of the psychological aspects of the patients in recovery • To formally observe, measure and test the recuperative capacity of spiritual and psychological care • To reduce the recovery time and hence further health demands on the hospital and to increase the success rate • To further increase the holistic nature of the hospital to include the ‘invisible’ technologies such as sakash/pure energy, love, kindness, understanding and care • To inspire and provide an environment for staff to formally explore and experiment with subtle methodologies • To utilize our most powerful resource in an active manner that supports both the patients and the staff • To conduct transparent, professional and recognised practice in a formally resourced department • To create a world class benchmark that shows a truly holistic model of health care Practical Objectives • Address the growing issues of mental health and depression. • Provide an adjunct/support for the psychiatry department. • Support patients that are affected by stress and fatigue related to long-term illness. • Investigate developing art therapy for children, long-term patients and the elderly. • Provide counselling sessions to all staff and patients. • Provide group counselling sessions for the local community already undergoing care with the hospital. • Provide self-development courses/session like, positive thinking, stress management, introduction to Raja yoga and values in healthcare in integrating spirituality in healthcare. • Provide monthly workshops for all staff and encourage dialogues in a spiritual café setting. • Fostering a feeling of ‘seva’ and ‘bhavna’ among staff by interacting with a cool, calm mind and a loving and companionate heart) in altruistic way. This new proposed department for Spiritual Care and Wellbeing would provide professional and formal resources to meet the above-mentioned needs. In addition, it would support the existing Psychiatry department by providing good basic psychological support to patients as well.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:31:56 +0000
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