Analyzes the story of Ivan Ilych in terms of concepts of the "healing environment" found in Chapters 7-9 of Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing.

Analyzes the story of Ivan Ilych in terms of concepts of the "healing environment" found in Chapters 7-9 of Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing.

Whitney The general concepts of chapter seven is to explore the effects of the physical environment of faith and heath together as one. Just the environment is such an important concept because controlling the environment puts patients in the best condition because then they feel calm, safe and secure. The beauty and importance of being natural is brought up as well by simply just looking at our world as a carbon-based dimension. Nature and being natural are concepts that kind of feed off of eachother, we use what nature gives us to live the most natural lives we possibly can. In the nursing environment using what God gave us creates an energy in the environment of pure good and faith in the nurse to patient relationship. In chapter eight it discusses the points of the significance of the spiritual and psychosocial environment in healthcare. The unseen environments are really special and important because the seen environments are what we see but the unseen is what faith sees and protects. It is the reality that humans cannot see, but they can feel. In chapter seven it talked about the natural environment that is seen but in chapter eight it talks about the environment that is seen indirectly. A modern worldview only knows what is seen in that natural world. The unseen world is just as important and strong as the natural world. God dwells in the unseen environment and that is where miracles are in action.