As a future nurse, I know that nursing is all about the compassion you show to patients. In order to be a good nurse, one has to understand both the physical and emotional needs of their patients. A good nurse allows their ethics to guide their nursing. My vision of nursing will not only encompass the care I give to patients, but also the care I provide for the community in which I live. Nursing is rooted in public service and the desire to help others. I hope that my philosophy of nursing will incorporate my education, as well as my desire to provide high quality, compassionate care, all while being respectful to each patient I care for.…
Nursing is a dedication to provide care and support to individuals, families, and the community. Nurses are patient educators; educating patients on healthier life choices, proper medication administration, caring for their wounds, and how to use health care equipment such as glucometers and incentive spirometers. We spend our lives helping others.…
The boundaries between nursing philosophy and nursing theory have not always been clearly clarified in the literature (Pesut & Johnson, 2008). One purpose for philosophical analysis is to examine the meaning and develop theories of meaning. Many philosophical findings are written in scientific notations, therefore philosophy and science are deeply linked. When developing a meaningful philosophy for nursing practice, many concepts must be taken into consideration. This includes patient and patient care, nurses, health care and environment, community, infrastructure, and society as a whole. Nursing theory came into view under scientific empiricism with concrete theory being the foundation of a legitimate scientific discipline. But that was not…
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Nursing. Nurses help and care for the sick or well, and promote health with skills, expertise and knowledge. The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.” We nurses are focused and educated to provide the most holistic care to individuals and family with actual and/or potential health problem. (ANA, 2009). Our commitment is to assist individuals/clients efforts to reach their optimal health potential.…
I believe that the core of nursing is to provide quality nursing care while taking into account the patient and their family member’s beliefs, customs, and traditions. Treating each patient compassionately and empathetically regardless of his or her color, race, and nationality. Recognizing and addressing their cultural and religious beliefs establishes a healthy and positive relationship between the nurse and the patient.…
To formulate my personal philosophy of nursing, I had to look at what my core values were. I am a kind, compassionate, honest, and caring. I chose nursing as my profession because nursing is something that always has been in my blood. I believe human life is precious and is to be valued. Not only do I consider my patient’s wellbeing, but I also look at the wellbeing of the families. Families take care of the patient when they are discharged. I also look at my fellow health care workers. Without being able to work alongside them, I could not take care of the patient properly. Lastly, I consider my own health. An unhealthy nurse cannot properly do their job. Caring for patients and their families, working well with coworkers, and taking care of your own health is what makes a difference because no matter how small the task, little things add up to big things. That is why I believe the world will get better one small step at a time.…
My personal philosophy reinforces the existing nursing theories, because it borrows heavily from Jean Watson theory of Human Caring. The main defining elements of my philosophy are respect for life and dignity of every person. This implies that the theory takes into consideration the various physical, spiritual and environmental needs required by patients to attain the anticipated health outcomes. For this reason, my personal philosophy places a greater responsibility on the nurse to create a favorable environment of promoting health for the…
Zerwekh, J, & Claborn, JC. (2009). Nursing today - transition and trends. St. Louis, Missouri: Saunders Elsevier.…
Only one word comes to mind when I think about the perception of care in the nursing profession, servant. I believe the nursing profession is similar to what Jesus was doing on the earth. When Jesus walked on the earth, he served people from all over the world. No matter if they had a sexual disease, blind, broken, etc. Jesus still cared for them with love. “I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strength the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice’ (Ezekiel 34:16 New English Translation). This verse from Ezekiel explains…
Elaborate on your beliefs of the philosophy of nursing including your vision for yourself as a nurse and how has this philosophy changed (or not changed) during your career. How does your philosophy affect how you care for your patients and how you interact with your fellow health care professionals? Describe ways that you use Nightingale’s philosophy and contributions to nursing in your current nursing practice. To describe my personal nursing philosophy would include mentioning the inspirational words of scripture, “For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a…
Nursing is a career not just a job, nursing is treating people as a disease, but as a unique individual who has his/her own values, beliefs, needs, and also treat the family with respect, compassion, patience, and show that we care. I chose nursing because I have always liked helping people. Ever since I was a little girl I liked helping and I would tell my dad that if he was ever sick I would take care of him so he could get better. At first I wanted to be a doctor, a pediatrician to be exact, but I chose nursing because, nurses have more contact with patients and nursing school is shorter than medical school. I know I made the right choice because as I have been doing clinicals, I have been falling more and more in love with what nurses do, but throughout the process I have also seen what kind of nurse I do not want to be. During clinicals there was an agency nurse a patient did…
I believe the focus of nursing is to obtaining the best outcome possible for the patient. It is my job to provide the patient with continuous, safe, and evidenced based care. The goal is to create an environment conducive to healing body and mind, to promote education, and assist the patient with decisions for achieving and maintaining optimum health, in and outside the hospital environment.…
The following paper examines my personal nursing philosophy I have trajected throughout my nursing career. Nursing is a commitment to public service and the unquestionable desire to help people in need. Nursing is not only the ability to treat an illness, but the ability to incorporate quality care that is individualized to the needs of each patient. My philosophy of nursing I feel has been strongly influenced by Faye Glenn Abdellah. I incorporate the knowledge of medicine while linking it with compassionate all-encompassing care that also respects and maintains the patients’ dignity. I believe that a patient centered approach that collaborates with…
My Personal Philosophy of Nursing Prior understanding the metaparadigm of nursing, my philosophy of nursing was merely based on nursing is a profession that aid the process of getting patients better. As Kearney-Nunnery stated, "The metaparadigm is the overall concern of nursing common to each nursing model, whether a conceptual model/paradigm or formal theory" (Kearney-Nunnery, 2016, pp.3). This paper will serve as an explanation of my personal nursing philosophy based on the four concepts of metaparadigm of nursing, which are human beings, environment, health and nursing. Each concept of metaparadigm of nursing composed of its own assumption, belief, and value.…