Philosophy of Nursing I chose nursing as my profession because I wanted to make a difference and helping those in need. I have always been interested in the health sciences field since middle school – but I truly didn’t exactly know what I wanted to do until my last semester of my undergraduate at Texas Woman’s University. I realized that I wanted to be more hands on with patients and involved in their care. In my opinion‚ nursing is defined as a healthcare profession that focuses on the care of
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I chose nursing as my profession because I truly believe that the desire to help people through nursing is calling. Nursing is an honorable career which I don’t treat as just a job to earn a paycheck. Nursing is a discipline of knowledge acquired through formal education and life experiences. The combination of these continues to alter and refine my nursing. My roles outside of nursing enhance my personal knowledge which I bring to my professional life. These life experiences expose me to many
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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
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“Philosophy encompasses belief claims about the exploration of principles based on knowledge‚ being‚ and conduct; thus‚ stance is a specific view held by a person or group” (Burns & Groves‚ 2011‚ p. 229). Nursing for me‚ is a calling and caring passion of lifelong learning that‚ aims to support persons holistically with health and illness situations‚ promote healing environments‚ and assist in health promotion and disease prevention. Nursing involves formal education with complex substantive content
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Philosophy of Nursing Starting out in the Pre-Professional Nursing Program at Summit Technology‚ I have a preconceived philosophy of nursing. I believe a career in nursing means for a versatile path. There are so many directions nursing can take a person. To begin‚ there are different levels on where one can start. A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) is a general baseline for a lot of beginning nurses‚ but one can further their education to become a Registered Nurse (RN) or Nurse Practitioner
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Philosophy is the study of knowledge (Meleis‚ 2012). There are many reasons to why individuals become nurses. A nurse’s philosophy is the reason she continues to be a nurse. It is the backbone‚ the blue print‚ and the guidelines to that specific nurse who believes this is what she should be doing for her patients. Being nervous on my first day of class as any Graduate student would‚ I read ahead on the readings and in-class assignments. The first assignment read‚ “What is your personal philosophy
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According to the ANA‚ it states nursing is 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. (“What is nursing‚" 2017) Many people may not realize nursing is more than what the definition defines it to be. When the words nursing and philosophy come together it is outlined as the knowledge
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My Nursing Philosophy My journey as Registered Nurse began almost ten years ago. This was not my first career‚ but I always wanted to help people no matter what my job was. I received my ADN degree in 2007 and began working as a nurse on one of the telemetry units of my hospital. I did not know much if anything about nursing theory at this point. However‚ my internal desire to help is what always pushes me to provide the care that I would want to see any of my family members receive if they
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My Philosophy of Nursing I am a forty-one year old wife and mother of one twelve year old daughter. I have been a nurse for eighteen years‚ thirteen of which have been in Oncology. My first job as a nurse was at a nursing home. I knew I did not want to be there long term as my goal was to be an Oncology nurse. I am not sure why I wanted to be an Oncology nurse as I did not have a close family member or friend that had suffered from Cancer‚ but I knew that is what I wanted to do. I got hired on
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My name is Dikey Wangmo and I graduated from LaGuardia Community College‚ in year 2014. Currently I am working full time job in sub-acute Rehab center as a Registered nurse. Today I am going to write about the philosophy of nursing. Before I could start my philosophy of nursing I first need to define what nursing is. Nursing is a profession where the nurse promoted‚ protect and optimizes people’s health and abilities through care based practices (ANA‚ 2017) the core of nursing is caring‚ humanism
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