Journal Articles
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| Recognizing the Mind/Body/Spirit Connection in Medical Care |
| Author: Samuel E. Karff, DHL |
Abstract
The clinician/healer must both address the disease and seek to know how the medical condition is being experienced by the patient--what impact it has on his or her life an spirit. |
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| Sacred
Vocation: Developing Meaningful Work
Through a Participatory Change Process |
| Authors:
Lynda S. Villanueva, B.S., Lacey L. Schmidt,
M.A., Benjamion C. Amick III, Ph.D., Samuel
Karff, Anika Gakovic, Ph.D., & Leah Toney-Podratz,
M.A. |
Abstract
A participatory change process known as the Sacred Vocation Project, is an ongoing
organizational change focused on both developing individuals’ spiritual
interpretation of their work and redesigning the work environment for St.
Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas. The pilot project results
suggest that employees’ spirituality and the organization of work simultaneously
influence the meaning employees attribute to their work, the resultant attitudes
employees hold toward their organizations, and employees’ work behaviors.
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News-Media
Publications
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| Sacred
Vocation Program in a Place of Healing |
Source:
UT
Distinctions, August 2005
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"...The
developers of the Sacred Vocation Program
believe this spiritual connection
improves the employees’ outlook on
their work, and this ultimately translates
to a more nurturing and compassionate environment
for their patients..."
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| Rabbi Karff Urges Health Care
Professionals to Look for Meaning: Presentation
explores the connection between spirituality
and medicine |
| Source:
Baptist Leader, 2002 |
| "...Rabbi
Karff believes that if hospital administrators
want staff to nurture
the spirit of the patient, administrators must
nurture the spirit of the staff..." |
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| The Power to Sustain Hope or
Destroy Hope |
| Source: UT
Distinctions, April 2006 |
| "...Another
part of the mission is to help health care
workers see their work not just as a job,
but as a calling. A program called Sacred
Vocation is conducted in partnership with
Episcopal Health Charities. This intervention
targets health care workers in hospitals,
clinics or nursing homes. The McGovern center
currently is engaged in a year-long intervention
with 400 techs at Baylor Hospital in Dallas...." |
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| Recognizing Excellence at BUMC |
| Source:
Excellence in Action, Baylor University Medical
Center Newsletter, February 2006 |
| “...In
this phase, the graduates are turning from
personal awareness
of their job as a sacred vocation to looking
at enablers and barriers in their work environment,” says
Chick Deegan, facilitator for Sacred Vocation’s
Phase Two and associate director, UTA School
of Nursing, Center for Leadership in Nursing
and Health Care..." |
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