Jack – Case study 1, Cancer Jack is a 13-year-old

Response to peer post In this discussion, I chose to discuss and give emphasis on Learning Objective #10, which is to describe various forms of healing and differentiate rituals of birth and death. According to Spector (2017), the professional history of nursing was born in the year 1860 when Florence Nightingale recognized that “nature heals.” Recently, numerous texts have been written to aid nurses as they assist patients improve their lives in a holistic manner and in healing the person in body, mind, and spirit. With this, it is vital to describe the four different forms of healing stated by Spector (2017) namely spiritual healing, inner healing, physical healing, and also there is deliverance or exorcism. Spiritual healing is applied when a person experiences an illness of the spirit, the cause of suffering is pointed to personal sin, thus the treatment is repentance, then followed by a natural process of healing. Inner healing is used when an individual suffers from emotional or mental illness, the root of the problem may lie in a person’s conscious or unconscious mind, and treatment is to heal the person’s memory. In addition, the healing process is delicate, and sensitive, and takes considerable time and effort. Next, physical healing is utilized when the individual is suffering from a disease or an accident that resulted in some form of damage to the body. This is usually done with the leader and members of a prayer group, along with the laying on of hands and speaking in tongues. Deliverance or exorcism, on the other hand, is used when the body and mind are victims of evil from the outside. The popularity of films based on this type of healing has contributed to the return of this belief. The world that we live in at present is still full of healers, some of these healers are reputable and some are not, and a lot of people still ask for their help. The scope of practice of a traditional healer and a modern healthcare practitioner has great differences in many ways. Furthermore, birth and death are two critical moments in the life of every human being. It was believed that evil spirits endure for a certain length of time and the 3rd, 7th, and 40th days were the crucial days in the early life of a child and the mother. Birth rituals are performed and most of the rituals were observed on these days or during the 8th day. By community’s practice, the person was freed from this taboo by specific rituals and after they were completed and the 40 days were over, both the mother and child are believed to be redeemed from evil. Additionally, it was viewed that the person, family, and community were surrounded by evil spirits both at the time of and after death. Death rituals were established as a protection from the evil spirits for both the dying and the dead, as well as the remaining family. The dying person was given care, such as ritual washing, and the grave was prepared in set ways. Both birth and death are considered crucial events in one’s life and during this time, evil spirits surround the individual and the people around them, and it is crucial to perform rituals to ward off the evil. As I’ve observed, these rituals are still alive yet as time goes by it has been gradually changed to fit the present. However, I think that there were really no evil spirits, and these individuals were simply in their vulnerable state, their systems were still developing or slowly deteriorating, making them prone to illness. But it is vital for me, as a healthcare professional, to give respect, be open-minded, and recognize that they exist and yet still be knowledgeable about when to intervene or provide health teaching to patients and their families, specifically, if their beliefs and rituals do bring harm than good to the wellbeing and progress of the patient.

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