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Hi, my name is kelly Stonewall and I am here

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A little bit of the background area is Hinduism is

the third largest religion in the world.

The majority of them are found in India, approximately one

billion of them.

It is primarily a philosophy of life more than it

is a religion.

It is the ultimate reality in the universe.

It is called brahman.

They believe there is one reality manifested from the universe

and it is a variety of gods and goddesses who

are worshiped in the form of brahman.

They also believe that people are brought here in the

human form in order to experience their one karma and

created in the life that they live.

The real name is Santana do Ipanema and the word

hindu was actually given to them by the Greeks who

was described, the people who were living around the Indus

River In the 19th century and the English given to

them. The word is um Um and later on the

Hindu accepted that and it can be traced back 5-10,000

years uh for this practice.

And uh so we just it's pretty old.

Um education wise Hindus are worldwide are some of the

least educated are the world's major religious groups, those living

in the more economically advanced nations that the United States

are England are more highly educated.

Those are where you find your doctors and so forth,

hindu caste systems.

The hindu caste system is a social hierarchy in India

that divides the Hindus based on their karma and dharma.

And many scholars believe that this dates back more than

3000 years.

Excuse me.

For centuries.

This caste system is determined every aspect of this cast

and um they are now outlawed primarily in that area

but there are still using this and then brahman is

the intellectual and spiritual leaders, the cash to start protectors

and public servants.

The visas or the skill protectors and the shooters are

the unskilled.

There's another subcategory within each of those.

And then there's another category that's not even listed then

those are called the untouchables and those are considered the

lowest societal hierarchy of all of them.

And so uh those are still considered today.

The hindu family has multiple roles.

The role of the husband is primarily to provide for

their family, be faithful and the role of the wife

is primarily to just perform and to take care of

the family and bring up the Children, teach without us

how to perform duties and take care and manage the

household duties and the husband is primarily to just take

care of the wife and the family and so forth.

Now there are specific rules within the family as well.

So when you marry into a family, the wife's duties.

They are also, women are usually very submissive and dependent

upon their husbands and they're kind of doing your and

so forth.

But um when you marry into the hindu family, the

wife's duties are also to take care of the husband's

family. And basic building blocks are multiple society in their

society or multiple families living within the same home.

So when you marry into that family, you're expected to

take care of the husbands parents and so forth as

well. So each society has certain taboos and in the

hindu religion there's never harm a cow, cows are sacred

and never have premarital sex.

Man or woman, adultery is forbidden feet are seen as

unholy and is also taboo for your feet to touch

anything that is wholly.

So remove your shoes when you're entering a temple and

wash them off.

Um In India the hindu usually say no they don't

want to donate their organs because they feel if you're

uh if you donate your organs and you will be

born without them in the next life.

And this has become less taboo in the higher educated

hindu throughout the world.

Um Sex segregation is still considered in the other areas.

So like general roles are strictly followed.

Schools are sex segregated.

Administration is um menstruating women are still considered unclean and

they're not allowed in the temples and sometimes they're not

even allowed to cook or clean during this time.

And anything that causes pain to another living thing, including

animals is taboo.

Uh suicide or euthanasia is also considered taboo.

So that would be one of those health issues that

we would be considered when we're looking at that something,

there are many food things that we need to look

at because they are primarily vegetarian and some do not,

some do eat meat and eggs but never beef.

And so uh any beef products byproducts of food also

need to be considered.

And there are very many complex rules regarding the preparations

of food.

So there is actually part of their religious uh products

and this is called Prasad a while there producing their

food and they bestow that religious merit upon their deities.

So they offer their food to the deities while they're

producing it and they do it in its purification of

mind body and spirit.

And then what they do is they dip the food

after they've offered it to the spirits and the deities

and they put it in there and it gives it

back to the person and they've accepted that now milk

products are considered a large part of their diet and

many people have a temple within their home and it

is widespread belief that the consciousness as a cook enters

the food and injures and influences those that eat it.

Procida literally means mercy.

So you need to have a good thought process while

you're cooking and people actually meditate while they're cooking fasting

is a very large portion of the hindu religion.

And so while if someone was sick um fasting as

an integral part of the Hinduism and seen as a

means of purifying the body and they encourage self discipline

and gaining emotional balance.

If you had a patient who was ill, they may

decide that they needed to fast for certain foods, like

if it was cold or hot and it has nothing

to do with the temperature of the food.

So this is due to their belief that certain foods

affect their bodies in certain ways and they may not

wish to have the plates of the hospital and, and

because of the energies that are established on the food

and they don't want other people's energies on that food

to influence their health.

There are many birth rituals within the hindu religion as

well. Okay.

Um, so some of those religions, the excuse me, the

birth rituals, the child is welcomed once they realize that

there's conception has taken place, there's a ritual that takes

place at conception.

And then there's other rituals that take place at birth.

There's a crip ceremony that can be performed in the

child's blessed by the priest, The mother and the child

remains unclean for 40 days and they're not taken out

of the home.

The father welcomes the child, one sees the child is

born by placing Honey on their tongue and whispers the

name of God into the child's ear.

Day 11 or 12 according to the Astrological Church, the

child receives a name and they're usually named by the

astrological charts.

Boys names can be pierced, um piercings are done and

two weeks after the child's taken outside to absorb sunlight

and then when teething begins, the first grains are given

first haircut and then I found it interesting that they

get their first haircut by 123 years of age and

they, they removed the haircut because they remove the past

lifes negativity.

So that ceremonies as well.

Um it are very interesting in the hindu religion here

you see a picture of a son who is preparing

a family member and then they schedule the along the

Gandhis river.

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

So death rituals Hindus believe the time of death is

determined by one's destiny.

They may not choose to have treatment um If it's

going to put a long life, many family members um

like to be washed by water and by Gandhi's river

and a hindu is always cremated preferably by the next

day. Most hindu do not believe in organ donation.

As I said previously in India, the eldest son sets

the cremation fire and um if there's no sun, the

deceased, uh then the oldest male relative will do that

for them.

Um As the body is cremated, the ashes are released

into probably the Ganges River to achieve mosca and that

is freeing of the soul from the cycle of reincarnation.

It is a belief that this will make their life

next life improved.

Mhm. So the mourning period of this family um is

also set that they have 13 days to mourn this

person. And the prezi Karma is performed to help disembodied

spirits find a new body to be reincarnated in now,

one year after this person's death, then they have a

party to celebrate this person's life, but they also burn

all of this person's clothing.

Sue this person, Pete can be discussed uh connected from

all of their previous earthly bounds.

So spiritualism is a large part of the Hinduism and

it is considered to be polytheistic, but it is really

more like a henna theistic.

So worship of one particular God without disbelieving in the

existence of other Gods.

Hinduism recognizes over 333 million gods and the vast majority

of the Hindus believe there's an infinite number of Gods

and everyone and God is everything.

So many can do believe that there is this primary

trinity brahma vishnu and Shiva, then all gods are considered

the manifestations of a single power of brahma and they

create the trinity of everything else.

If you visit anywhere in India or any of hindu

home, you're going to also see krishna and paintings and

statues of him are everywhere.

And also you will see that they have the cattle

here who is also very, they worship cattle because it

is the giver of life as the milk and dairy

as a nurse.

What do you need to know, tend to encourage acceptance

of pain as it is part of their karma.

So they released likely to accept any pain medication.

Uh They believe that illness has a physical, mental and

spiritual element which we talked about the trinity earlier.

Of the three things that you need to be able

to do and we must address all three of those

elements if we want to take care of our patients,

many hindu wear a gold chain around their neck, chest

or waist and um I've seen patients and you must

be given permission in order to remove it.

Please do not take them to surgery and remove it

because they will wake up afraid that something has happened,

hindu may be reluctant to be examined by a caregiver

of opposite sex.

Um Please remember that these people do require modesty at

all times.

Um additional nursing care of hindu.

Um Please remember that bathing and cleanliness is very important

to them in the hindu life.

They prefer running water and frequent hand washing.

They will wash their mouth after surgery and request to

wash using a bedpan.

Um They like to have personal hygiene from face and

from the feet down because cleanliness clean and dirty per

can take place anywhere they need to do.

They do not require specific areas hindu can take um

They may delay a surgery because of their astrological charts

and most will only eat with their right hand and

not accept anything given to them by their left hand.

If you're giving them medications and you're handing it to

them with your left hand, they may not accept it

from you fasting on certain days of the week is

common for them.

And and medications that are made with animal products may

not be appropriate for your hindu patient Hindus practice something

called uh Harvard IQ which is a traditional medicine for

them. And many of these ingredients that are within this

medications um can also expect their normal medications are their

Western medications that we give them.

So please be aware of that.

And there are certain drugs such as ibuprofen, Coumadin and

Plavix, which have increased bleeding times within persons that are

from India.

So it's not just hindu but persons from the in

India area these medications increase their bleeding time.

Antidepressants and certain anti seizure medicines have also been known

to be metabolized differently in this ethnic group depending on

their geographical origins and certain blood pressure medications and steroids

have adverse effects on certain genome types as well.

This is a very, very rich culture and if you

have any questions about your patients, please ask them, I'm

sure that they will be willing to answer any of

your questions.

Um Yeah, here are my references and my references continued.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you for your time

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