Nursing and Jewish Faith Term Paper

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Nursing and Jewish Faith

Currently, about 6 million Jewish reside in the U.S. These Jews might subscribe to the Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform paths of Jewish faith, or they might be secular and non-aligned. Even though devout customs and degrees of following among these paths of Judaism differ extensively, nurses must gradually come to terms with the religious customs of Judaism to extend the utmost complete care. (Jewish Perspectives on Pregnancy and Childbearing) This paper shall deal with patients having strong Jewish faith which are the Orthodox Jews and the role of a nurse in providing special considerations to this particular community. The orthodox Jews constitute a special cultural class and they devote their complete lives preaching about Torah. Their religious faiths are shown in every facet of their lives, in health as well as illness. (Special considerations for Orthodox Jewish patients in the emergency department) The manners in which basic care services are availed by the Jewish society vary from non-Jewish population.
(Demographic characteristics and primary health care utilization patterns of strictly orthodox Jewish and non-Jewish patients) Attending to the necessities of Jewish patients and their families by the nursing community are thus akin to caring for other ethnic and devout groups with some extremely crucial exclusion. (The Jewish Chaplaincy Program of Milwaukee)

The stringently conformist approach of life can influence on a lot of facets of health and health care. It is for the nurses to appreciate that the holiness of life for the furtherance of life is pivotal to Judaism. (Culturally congruent end-of-life care for Jewish patients and their families) Judaism authorizes its independent specific needs for its Sabbath and Holy Days, its food habits and life path practices. (The Jewish Chaplaincy Program of Milwaukee) Two main….....

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