Faith Care

Aboriginal faith community includes people of Canada. They include more than fifty cultural language groups within Canada (Linda, 2009).   They rely on one grand creator. In the Aboriginal faith community, they believe health is holistic and is a balance of all aspects of life including physical, mental emotional, and spiritual.   They have a holistic accepting about the nature and consider that all things are related to nature. They are seeing demise as a part of life cycle. They commonly accept most of the medical treatments .They use western medicine as a enhancing or complement to their herbal medicine (Linda, 2009). Immediate family is included in any medical treatment decision-making processes (Linda, 2009). It is said that ceremonial practices should be respected. The sacred herbs, medicines bags and pouches, and traditional blankets are not to be handled without permission (Linda, 2009).   Elder people have a significant role in the healing expedition.

          The Christian Science faith community is based on the Bible and the teaching of Jesus (Linda, 2009). The emphasis of Christian Science is the practice of spiritual healing which is prayer based (Linda, 2009). The Christian Scientist has members and branches throughout the world. Christian Scientist believes that each individual has a unique spiritual journey. The individual or family will decide on procedures such as transfusions transplants, or organ donations. If a Christian Scientist is taken to a hospital involuntarily, they may refuse treatment and ask to be released to family for care (Linda, 2009). There are Christian Scientist nursing facilities that give treatment without the use of medications. Babies are born usually in hospitals and have a physician prior to birth which is the same as Christian’s. Some, like Christian’s may choose to have a home birth with a Midwife (Linda, 2009). It is important to talk to patient to ask about the level of care they want. They may wish to have contact...