What personal, cultural, and spiritual values contribute to your worldview and philosophy of nursing? How do these values shape or influence your nursing practice?
Ethics and values form the basis of nursing. Nurses provide nursing care by preventing illness, reducing suffering and promoting restoration of health in individuals, families, societies and communities. Nursing involves technical skills and abilities, duty and service to others with compassion and efficient decision-making. Nursing care ensures in meeting the needs of patients and their families during the care to relieve from the consequences of sufferings. Nurses have to be vigilant enough to assess and assure to avoid unwanted treatments leading to patient suffering. Nurses promote and strive to ensure the health, safety and rights of patients. They have the responsibility to advance the profession by education, knowledge dissemination, evaluating, refining, and applying it in situations. They work in association with health professionals and public in promoting health, welfare and safety to public, community, nation and world bringing a social change by extending towards health related socio-cultural issues (The American Nurses Association, 2010). The personal, cultural and spiritual values do influence the nursing practice to support me to pursue the duties in an efficient way following all the nursing ethics. In order to ensure optimum patient care, I provide individual care with proper execution of tasks with compassion irrespective of the socio-economic conditions, personal attributes or nature of disease and develop a professional relationship with the patients providing nursing services with respect to human needs and values ensuring that the patient lives with physical, emotional, social and spiritual satisfaction.
Define values, morals, and ethics in the context of your obligation to nursing practice. Explain how your personal values, philosophy, and worldview may