GCU HLT302 Full Course
Week 1
Discussion
DQ1 What personal assumptions or beliefs
have shaped your worldview? What has shaped your philosophy of health care?
What reservations do you have about spirituality in health care and wellness?
DQ2 Based on your readings, what is the
main difference between the modern Western worldview and the current postmodern
worldview? Which parts, if any, do you identify with? Explain. Cite references
from your reading to support your answer.
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Week 2
Discussion
DQ1 The ethos of scientism and
postmodernism has exacerbated the perceived philosophical and cultural tension
between science and religion. What is your perception of this tension?
DQ2 Review the Worldviews in Nursing
Theories section of Chapter 3 in Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for
Nursing. Select two of the definitions
of “health” provided in the text.
Within the context of the broader worldview, describe the two selected
definitions of “health” of the (six) worldview concepts and nursing
theories described in your textbook. How
would you define health?
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Week 3
Discussion
DQ1 What do you believe makes us human?
Cite references from your reading to support your answer.
DQ2 What is the Christian concept of the
imago dei? How might it be relevant to health care and why is it important?
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Spirituality and Christian Values in Health Care and Wellness
Week 4
Discussion
DQ1 What is your earliest memory of being
sick? Similarly, what is your first memory of some sort of medical care? Was it
positive? Looking back on it from the vantage point of your current knowledge
and experience, was your care back then good and adequate?
DQ2 On first glance, how would you define
what it means for something to be “natural”? According to Called to
Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing, the textbook, what does the Bible tell
us about natural creation or the “natural” world? Base your response
from the GCU introduction and the textbooks. Cite references from your reading
to support your answer.
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Week 5
Discussion
DQ1 Review Colossians 1 in the Bible.
Define the concepts of “God,” “person,”
“environment,” and “health” according to Colossians 1.
DQ2 What tensions do you think you might
experience arising from the differing worldviews of administrators, health care
providers, and patients? Cite references from your reading to support your
answer.
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Week 6
Discussion
DQ1 Give a brief summary of your
“Health Care and Wellness Provider and Faith Diversity” assignment.
How will your understanding of this faith expressions inform your philosophy of
health care and wellness?
DQ2 Give a brief summary of your
“Suffering and Grief” assignment. How did your assigned religion
differ from Christianity? What are the implications of diverse beliefs on
health care and wellness?
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Week 7
Discussion
DQ1 What is a strategy that you use to help
you relax and focus before starting your work day? Would you consider this practice
a waste of time or essential to promote successful work? Explain.
DQ2 How realistic is it to expect health
care workers to model mental, physical, and spiritual health? If Americans tend
to be overweight, underactive workaholics who experience burnout, why should
health care workers be any different? Base your response from the topic study
materials. Cite references from your reading to support your answer.
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Week 8
Discussion
DQ1 How would your practices contribute to
your success as a caregiver? What could you do to improve the care you give
yourself?
DQ2 Compare one of your spiritual
traditions with that in another faith tradition. How will understanding one’s
own spiritual traditions help you to provide care for others?
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Week 1 Quiz
• Scientism
is:
A.
The belief that science is good for society.
B. The view that science is a good way of
knowing facts about the world.
C. The view that science is the best or
only way to have knowledge of the world.
D. Scientism just is science.
The attempt to derive an ought from an is,
best describes:
A.The fact-value distinction
B.Objectivism
C.A fallacy
D.Moral realism
•The fact-value distinction is:
A. The fact that there are values in the
real world.
B. The fact that there is a distinction
between “facts” and “values” such that moral judgments are
the evaluating of facts.
C. The problem of deriving a value from a
fact
D. The distinction between statements of
etiquette and statements of true morality.
•In his 1962 book The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that:
A. Science is the only purely objective
field that is not tainted by the bias of culture, religion, or philosophy.
B. Scientific revolutions have largely
taken place in secular or nonreligious societies.
C. Science is not value-free or purely
objective, and our perceptions and values shape our understanding of reality.
D. Science is the best or only way to have
any knowledge of the world.
•According to conceptualism, the world
exists “out there,” independent of the knower.
True
False
•Relativism holds that all truth is
relative such that it is in some way invented and determined by either individuals
or cultures.
•True
False
•A fundamental thesis of this course is
that:
o Religion and spirituality have too much
influence upon the field of health care.
o Science is always opposed to and damaging
