Write a 500-750 word essay on your personal worldview.
Discuss the various meanings of “spirituality” and their relevance in the context of managed care including sociological and philosophical perspectives. Consider the religious and cultural context of modern health care and medicine (i.e., pluralism, scientism, and postmodernism), and address the seven basic worldview questions.
Be sure to address the following questions:
1. What is prime reality?
2. What is the nature of the world around us?
3. What is a human being?
4. What happens to a person at death?
5. Why is it possible to know anything at all?
6. How do we know what is right or wrong?
7. What is the meaning of human history?
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Resources to use
Textbook
Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing
Shelly, J. A., & Miller, A. B. (2006). Called to care: A Christian worldview for nursing (2nd ed.). Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic. ISBN-13: 9780830827657
Read chapters 1-2 and the Worldviews in Nursing Theories section of chapter 3 in Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing.
Electronic Resource
1. The Role of Spirituality in Health Care
Read “The Role of Spirituality in Health Care,” by Puchalski, from Proceedings (Baylor University Medical Center) (October 2001).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305900/