Essay On Personal Definition Of Nursing
Personal Definition of Nursing
Maryville University
Personal Definition of Nursing
My definition of nursing is the protection, promotion, optimize the health, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations (American Nurses Association, 2013). Once you are involved in the nursing profession there is much more to it than caring and taking care of people. We help our patients emotionally by offering support and care, and just being there when they need to talk or sometimes cry. We are the patient advocates and the voice of our patients and need to speak on their behalf to ensure they receive safe and appropriate care.
Nurses take care of patients both physically and emotionally. …show more content…
My personal philosophy of nursing and my role within the profession as an APN is one focused and centered on the community in which I live.
This would include but not be limited to health care prevention and delivery of cost effective care with an emphasis on the person as a whole, not just their disease state. I desire to be a resource for and to the local area in which I have lived and practiced as a baccalaureate prepared RN for the past 10 years on both the macro and micro level. As an APN my philosophy will allow me to have both a greater impact and make a larger contribution to the community at large with now being able to follow a member of the community’s care from point of entry through recovery. I will have the tools and knowledge to impart behavior and lifestyle changes that will in turn help lend to a healthier community. My training ensures that I can better guide a patient through health care issues both large and small with a focus on the overall wellbeing of the patient in addition to the acute and/or chronic
presentation.
The theorists that are used in my clinical practice include, Margaret Newman’s theory which defines health as expanding consciousness. Pharris states, “The more expanded the consciousness of the nurses, the more readily they [are] able to enter into a transformative relationship with clients. Expanding consciousness is de- scribed in Newman’s theory as insight and as the recognition of patterns (p.194)”. According to her theory, the nurse-patient relationship is of paramount importance. As a nurse working in an ER we see patients over and over again that do not have a primary provider and use the ER as their primary provider. It is my job to help educate for example diabetic teaching with medications and proper diet to limit the need for treatment in an ER setting for fluctuating blood sugars.
Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory, which incorporated the restoration of the usual health status of the nurse 's clients into the delivery of health care. Hegge states, “This is an act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery which involves the nurse 's initiative to configure environmental settings appropriate for the gradual restoration of the patient 's health, and that external factors associated with the patient 's surroundings affect life or biologic and physiologic processes, and his development (p.211)”. Such as, patients that continues to come to the hospital and are living in very poor conditions and are not optimal for the patient healing. We must recognize and assist with proper placement upon discharge the pt. home.
Thank you
References
American Nurses Association. (2013). Retrieved from Nursing World: http://www.nursingworld.org/EspeciallyForYou/What-is-Nursing
Hegge, M. (2013). Nightingale’s Environmental Theory. Nursing Science Quarterly, 26(3), 211-219
Pharris, M. (2011). Margaret A. Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness. Nursing Science Quarterly, 24(3), 193-194.
Maryville University
Personal Definition of Nursing
My definition of nursing is the protection, promotion, optimize the health, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations (American Nurses Association, 2013). Once you are involved in the nursing profession there is much more to it than caring and taking care of people. We help our patients emotionally by offering support and care, and just being there when they need to talk or sometimes cry. We are the patient advocates and the voice of our patients and need to speak on their behalf to ensure they receive safe and appropriate care.
Nurses take care of patients both physically and emotionally. …show more content…
My personal philosophy of nursing and my role within the profession as an APN is one focused and centered on the community in which I live.
This would include but not be limited to health care prevention and delivery of cost effective care with an emphasis on the person as a whole, not just their disease state. I desire to be a resource for and to the local area in which I have lived and practiced as a baccalaureate prepared RN for the past 10 years on both the macro and micro level. As an APN my philosophy will allow me to have both a greater impact and make a larger contribution to the community at large with now being able to follow a member of the community’s care from point of entry through recovery. I will have the tools and knowledge to impart behavior and lifestyle changes that will in turn help lend to a healthier community. My training ensures that I can better guide a patient through health care issues both large and small with a focus on the overall wellbeing of the patient in addition to the acute and/or chronic
presentation.
The theorists that are used in my clinical practice include, Margaret Newman’s theory which defines health as expanding consciousness. Pharris states, “The more expanded the consciousness of the nurses, the more readily they [are] able to enter into a transformative relationship with clients. Expanding consciousness is de- scribed in Newman’s theory as insight and as the recognition of patterns (p.194)”. According to her theory, the nurse-patient relationship is of paramount importance. As a nurse working in an ER we see patients over and over again that do not have a primary provider and use the ER as their primary provider. It is my job to help educate for example diabetic teaching with medications and proper diet to limit the need for treatment in an ER setting for fluctuating blood sugars.
Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory, which incorporated the restoration of the usual health status of the nurse 's clients into the delivery of health care. Hegge states, “This is an act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery which involves the nurse 's initiative to configure environmental settings appropriate for the gradual restoration of the patient 's health, and that external factors associated with the patient 's surroundings affect life or biologic and physiologic processes, and his development (p.211)”. Such as, patients that continues to come to the hospital and are living in very poor conditions and are not optimal for the patient healing. We must recognize and assist with proper placement upon discharge the pt. home.
Thank you
References
American Nurses Association. (2013). Retrieved from Nursing World: http://www.nursingworld.org/EspeciallyForYou/What-is-Nursing
Hegge, M. (2013). Nightingale’s Environmental Theory. Nursing Science Quarterly, 26(3), 211-219
Pharris, M. (2011). Margaret A. Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness. Nursing Science Quarterly, 24(3), 193-194.