Assignment 1: My Personal Philosophy Of Nursing
My Philosophy of Nursing
Ever since I can remember, I have always wanted to ensure that everyone around me was "ok" and were being "helped and taken care of," including family members, friends and acquaintances. I feel like I have always had a natural "caring" gene which I probably inherited from my mother. I 'm so happy I chose my career in nursing. I truly love what I do and I feel like I always get a sense of reward, in one way or another, every shift that I work, which gives me the drive and the encouragement to do what I do best, nursing!
Nursing includes such things as being professional, appropriate, promote patient safety, hand hygiene, passing medications on time, the five rights of medicating a patient and the list goes on. But …show more content…
That talent comes natural for some, others have to learn and work at the "art." This leads me to another theorist, Patricia Benner, whose theory is called "Novice to Expert," where she describes the five levels of experience in nursing as novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient and expert. Just as the title of her theory suggests, Benner believes that each step builds on the previous one (www.rncentral.com, 2014). Every nurse starts out "fresh" as a "novice nurse." This is where nursing will "make or break you." After approximately six months to a year then next level is "advanced beginner." Here you are still new but a little more confident and you can stand on your own two feet, so to speak. After approximately two years or so the "competent" level follows. Here you are learning to be more confident, independent and can definitely stand on your own. The "proficient" level is the next step and here you have learned and grown a lot and you can be referred to as a "seasoned" nurse. At this level you can serve as a resource nurse due to the level of experience. The fifth step in the nursing experience, according to Benner, is the "expert" step. Here, the nurse has mastered certain tasks and roles and can be a resource nurse in many more areas. However, even though the nursing experience, so to speak, stops at the "expert" level, learning/educating is ongoing and can simultaneously be taking place during each level of the nursing experience. Advancing education is highly recommended and I believe is an important piece in the life of a nurse. It teaches you to look at things from different angle and stimulates the thought process for a bedside nurse. If offers advancement to a higher level of nursing which promotes growth
Ever since I can remember, I have always wanted to ensure that everyone around me was "ok" and were being "helped and taken care of," including family members, friends and acquaintances. I feel like I have always had a natural "caring" gene which I probably inherited from my mother. I 'm so happy I chose my career in nursing. I truly love what I do and I feel like I always get a sense of reward, in one way or another, every shift that I work, which gives me the drive and the encouragement to do what I do best, nursing!
Nursing includes such things as being professional, appropriate, promote patient safety, hand hygiene, passing medications on time, the five rights of medicating a patient and the list goes on. But …show more content…
That talent comes natural for some, others have to learn and work at the "art." This leads me to another theorist, Patricia Benner, whose theory is called "Novice to Expert," where she describes the five levels of experience in nursing as novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient and expert. Just as the title of her theory suggests, Benner believes that each step builds on the previous one (www.rncentral.com, 2014). Every nurse starts out "fresh" as a "novice nurse." This is where nursing will "make or break you." After approximately six months to a year then next level is "advanced beginner." Here you are still new but a little more confident and you can stand on your own two feet, so to speak. After approximately two years or so the "competent" level follows. Here you are learning to be more confident, independent and can definitely stand on your own. The "proficient" level is the next step and here you have learned and grown a lot and you can be referred to as a "seasoned" nurse. At this level you can serve as a resource nurse due to the level of experience. The fifth step in the nursing experience, according to Benner, is the "expert" step. Here, the nurse has mastered certain tasks and roles and can be a resource nurse in many more areas. However, even though the nursing experience, so to speak, stops at the "expert" level, learning/educating is ongoing and can simultaneously be taking place during each level of the nursing experience. Advancing education is highly recommended and I believe is an important piece in the life of a nurse. It teaches you to look at things from different angle and stimulates the thought process for a bedside nurse. If offers advancement to a higher level of nursing which promotes growth