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Worldview Analysis and Personal Inventory
Melissa A. Doty
Grand Canyon University
PHI 413 Ethical and Spiritual Decision Making in Health Care
Dr Steven Ledbetter
October 8, 2023
Worldview Analysis and Personal Inventory
Being able to reflect on your personal relationship with spirituality and beliefs will make
them stronger.
There are times when we feel strong in our faith and find joy in it as well.
Then
there are the times that we question our beliefs and spirituality.
Reflection throughout our lives
can help to deepen our beliefs, re-evaluate things in our lives and help to prepare us and keep our
strength in times of trouble. As healthcare professionals we need to maintain that strength for
ourselves from within, and for our patients.
Perspectives of Healing
Christian Perspective in Healthcare
In Christianity, their views are surrounded and based on the works of the Lord.
The Lord
gave us all an assignment in life, and if you are blessed to be in healthcare it’s because the Lord
chose you to do that. You are to do the works of the Lord onto others through your profession.
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When it comes to the patient’s side of things, they view that God gives us what we have the
strength to handle. When we feel weak, we reach out to other Christians and ask for prayers so
that the Lord can hear us and help us in our time of need. Christians look to the Lord as their
guide and savior for all aspects of their life.
They tend to seek His direction and continue to do
His works.
Postmodern Relativism in Healthcare
Postmodern relativism in healthcare allows for a wider range of diversity to be accepted.
This means there is no monopoly on a certain belief system or spirituality in healthcare to deter
people of other faiths and spirituality from seeking the care they need and deserve.
Healthcare
should be a safe zone for every individual and their faith and beliefs should not be seen as less
than anyone else’s.
When a patient is sick and is seeking treatment they need to rely on their
own belief system to get through their tough times, equal to everyone else. No one has the
answers to the harder things in life, especially not healthcare workers.
Scientism
The belief in scientism is very black and white. It is based on those are the facts that have
been proven, they are solid, these facts have been tested to be true and that is all we need to
know in healthcare and other aspects of life.
There is a scientific reason for everything, not
everything has been identified or discovered yet but they will continue to investigate and they
will find the answers in a scientific method to explain everything.
Scientism is based on a black and white, fact-based point of view, but there are arguments
made against them.
One of the main arguments against scientism is that it is self-refuting, this is primarily
because reality cannot be proven.
No matter what, at this point in our lives, reality is an aspect
that no hard science can be used to be proven within the black and white views that scientism
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maintains. The second argument against scientism is that it is unable to prove morality along
with reality.
There is no black and white explanation for knowing why people make the choices
they do.
Ethically most humans know the difference between right and wrong, and yet there are
vast differences in what is considered right and wrong along with various definitions of right and
wrong.
Overall, it seems that most people follow and abide by common definitions of what is
considered to be “right” or “good”.
Whether they follow a religion or have a specific type of
spirituality, people can generally agree on the differences between right and wrong.
Then there
are a few people, outliers, that even if raised in a good home with spiritual and religious values
choose to do the things that are considered wrong or immoral.
There is no scientific explanation
for the reasoning behind these differences as of yet.
Maybe one day they can figure out within a
scientific method why people make the choices they do.
Ultimate Reality
This is the overall understanding that there is one maker, our Lord, who has created the
universe and everything in it. This is when we know and understand that the Lord governs
everything in our universe and it is our duty to realize this and follow his laws and do his good
works.
When we achieve ultimate reality, this is when one understands the relationship between
the human being and the Lord and they know what part they have to play in His plan.
Human Beings
Human beings were made in the image of the Lord, they are the land soldiers the Lord
created to continue to do His works here on this planet. We are flesh and blood made in the
image of the Lord. We all are here on this planet to do His good deeds and treat each other fair
and as equals.
When this doesn't happen it brings so much sorrow to the Lord. We as a whole
human being need to do better.
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Knowledge
Knowledge is a difficult attribute to explain.
Knowledge is when you know things in life
that can help benefit others and possibly yourself, and yet you choose to stay quiet.
In
Christianity, knowledge is when we understand the truths the Lord wants us to know and
understand.
We are to understand the circumstances of our actions as the Lord has laid them out
for us. Knowledge to me is knowing what you don’t know.
Having the capability to understand
that no one knows everything and everything in life is a learning experience. When an individual
can acknowledge that fact that they understand that they will never know everything about
anything is a genuine type of knowledge.
We are human beings and we need to take everyday
lessons as an opportunity to learn and grow.
Basis of Ethics
My personal basis for ethics comes from human decency.
This is basically from the
Golden Rule, which is to treat those around you as you would like to be treated.
I have literally
taken this message to heart and strive everyday to listen, be compassionate and understanding to
every person I meet. This has lead me to see all humans as equals.
I base my values in ethics on
this Golden Rule and seeing everyone as equals.
I understand the vast majority of things that are
right and wrong.
I know that the things that are deemed wrong are the ones that hurt others.
In
my mind if anything that I do has the potential to hurt someone else, I will give it a second
thought and find a way to do something without hurting another person.
I believe this stems
from the fear of having harm done to me.
I want to put positivity into the universe and hope that
is what returns to me.
That is my baseline for my ethics.
Purpose of Existence
Does anyone really know what the purpose of existence is?
I think we all do have an idea
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of what the meaning of life might be, there are always various theories. I keep thinking about this
throughout the different stages of my life.
I think the answer to this question changes as my life
changes.
When I was younger I thought the purpose of life was to live hard and die young.
After I became a parent, the purpose of life was to create life, continue humanity and be the best
parent that I could be.
As I am older and my children are all almost grown, my purpose at this
time in my life is to be the best person I can be.
My purpose is to help as many people as I can,
to be a good memory to as many people as I can be.
Bring joy and happiness to the world.
I feel
this right now as deeply as I can within my soul.
Results
Life is always changing and the purpose for this is for us to grow and change. By
accepting these changes we acquire more and more knowledge. As we grow and acquire this
knowledge, we begin to realize how much in life we do not know or understand.
This allows us
to yearn to learn more and grow.
Life is always changing within all of us all of the time.
As time
goes on changes continue on simultaneously.
It is what we do with what we know and how we
live our lives is how we will be remembered and how we leave our mark on this planet.
Spirituality and beliefs grow and change as we grow and change.
Everything we believe will
evolve throughout time, if you find someone who still believes everything they did as an adult
from when they were a child, this is a sign of lack of growth in spirituality, knowledge and
emotionally.
This seems to be fairly rare, but it does occur for various reasons. All we can do is
try to understand one another.
We do not have to share our beliefs, but we can still listen to
others.
There is no right or wrong in what a person needs to believe to get through their life.
Everyone’s experience in life is their own, it is not our place to judge.
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