To complete this assignment, you must read Chapter 2 -The State of the Current Healthcare System and Chapter 3 – Envisioning the Ideal from the course’s textbook (Spiritual Caregiving: Healthcare as a Ministry).
Discussion
The prompt for this assignment further requires students to engage in critical and analytical thinking about what Carson and Koenig refer to as the “Spiritual Crisis” of Western healthcare by comparing and contrasting earlier versus modern relational dynamics between patients and providers.
You will be challenged to consider your own biases, those of the authors associated with the primary text for this assignment, as well as the potential biases of those who have been charged with bringing about this “spiritual crisis” in Western healthcare, all in an effort to relate to the issues associated with this prompt more objectively.
This assignment inherently incorporates the student learning outcomes and encourages you to think about civic engagement through a personal, spiritual, and moral lens – particularly by considering the prosocial mission and purpose of healthcare professionals.
Finally, you are expected to synthesize this information succinctly and engage in an exchange about it with at least two of their peers in this class by replying to their GEA 2/GCP assignment within the course discussion board.
In light of all this, an exemplary assignment submission will provide substantive answers to the following questions:
Within the second chapter of Spiritual Caregiving, what do Carson and Koenig mean when they discuss the crisis of healthcare in the West today as a spiritual crisis? Do you agree or disagree? Why?
What other systems/issues do they associate with the crisis that they believe the field of healthcare presently faces, and how do these concerns about the Western healthcare system resonate or conflict with your own personal or spiritual convictions?
How might their vision of a different motivational ideal for pursuing work as a healthcare professional in the third chapter practically address the concerns Carson and Koenig raise?
