Our Lady of Perpetual Crisis
Members
DD - Guild Head
Sylvr - Hounds' Mistress
Captain Seamus
Summary
Our Lady of Perpetual Crisis or the Healer's Guild is one of the Guilds within the Colorado Rogues. Health and General well-being is thier focus as well as studies and knowledge sharing.
This Guild is currently headed by DD
This guild was formerly known as The Hospice and with the following justification by the fomer Guild Head Sylvr upon its inception.
The word hospitium meant originally the warm feeling between host and guest , and later the place where this feeling was experienced. The primary idea of hospice was to be a resting place for traveller and pilgrims. The latin ward hospes first meant ’stranger’ . By late classical times, the word had changed and denoted a host, while hospitalitis meant friendly, the welcome to the stranger. From it derived hospitality, hospital, hostel, hostery, hotel and hospitium, originally the warm feeling between host and guest, and later the place where this feeling was experienced. From hospitium to hospice (Saunders C,. 1998 ).
Providing a formal definition of hospice care is difficult. The term hospice dates back to ancient times and over the years has had many different meanings.
The modern concept of hospice is characterized by individuality, diversity, and flexibility. Patient is a unique individual and the program of care must be individually catered to the specific patient and their family.
The Hospice Education Institute (1998) attempts to define hospice on a small brochure as: “a philosophy of caring which respects and values the dignity and worth of each person, and good hospice care is the practical expression of that personal and professional commitment. Hospices care for people approaching death, but hospices emphasize life, by helping patients (and those who love and care for them) live each day to the fullest.
But Hospice means different things in different countries - it is variously used to refer to a philosophy of care, to the buildings where it is practised, to care offered by health professionals or unpaid volunteers, OR to care in the final days of life.
1: Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax. 1990 Dec 27;79(52):1630-6. Related Articles, Links [From hospice to high-rise hospital--the development of western hospitals] [Article in German] Schadewaldt H. Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin, Medizinische Einrichtungen, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Dusseldorf. Departing from the first infirmaries in the Roman army installed as valetudinaria exclusively for sick and wounded soldiers the development of western hospital care began based on the idea of love for fellowman. The importance of the order of MonteCassino founded by Benedict of Nursia in the 6th century is emphasized. The role of these hospices important as asylums and hospitals with spiritual assistance is exposed as well as the endeavours of lords, kings and citizens to found hospitals in the modern sense from the 17th century onwards. The institution of the general hospital became important from 1784 onwards in Vienna and soon thereafter in Berlin. Modern nursing movements developed from protestant nursing sisters in Kaiserswerth. Further organizations for nursing such as those initiated by Florence Nightingale.
Bibliography:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2281243&dopt=Abstract
