My Worldview A “worldview” was a big word for me when my teacher told me to write about it. I have known the meaning of the word‚ but when it comes to my mind‚ it becomes vague and I cannot think of what is my worldview. According to a dictionary‚ “worldview” means someone’s opinions and attitudes relating to the world and things in general. I started to think of what affected me to think in the way I am doing now‚ what made me to choose to do a certain thing in my life‚ or why I have a certain
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This is a legal and ethical condition because this patient Mr. John with end stage destructive prostate cancer who had been confirmed by the physicians that he only has a 2-3 week to live expresses the suicide effort to a nursing staff and asks nurse do not notify others. This is an ethical dilemma because of this behavior of patient put the healthcare team members in a hard situation. According to the Beauchamp and Walter (2003)‚ they clearly defined an ethical dilemma as a condition that happens
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ethics‚ there are three main theories. The first is the virtue theory which is all based around virtue ethics. This is sometimes simplified into being character based ethics. It states that “to be an effective person in the world one must adopt various characteristics and habits and characteristics that others would deem as praiseworthy” (Boylan‚ 2009). The next theory is the utilitarianism theory which is best described as the team first theory. Utilitarianism is a theory that suggests that “an action
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Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Issues The ethical dilemma is that the children of the woman with cancer are not being cared for adequately. The nurse must decide if it is ethically and morally sound to tell the school nurse about the daughters’ situation at home. Since the nurse is the caretaker of the mother and knows that she needs to keep her information about her health confidential. However‚ it is affecting the mental stability of her daughters because they are afraid of their mother’s declining
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Personal Virtues I went over the list a couple of times and I am not sure if I even put them into the correct order or not of how I feel. I had changed them a few times. I am surprised at a couple of choices that I made. I was not sure of how to rate respectability and dignity. I know I can respect a person but that person does not respect me so I in turn do not want to respect that person. I do have self-worth and I do have pride in myself but I do not think it is
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Practice of Professional Nursing Leadership Theories Nursing 4365 July 21‚ 2014 Vicki Hartin‚ Phd(c)‚ RN‚ CNE West Texas A & M University The Theory of Leadership Leadership is defined by Yoder-Wise (2011) as the process by which one uses personal traits to effectively and ethically lead patients‚ families and staff to accomplish clinical and organizational outcomes. Theory is defined by nursing-theory.org (2013) as a belief‚ policy or procedure that is followed to accomplish
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Nursing Philosophy Mary Bartley Broward College The integration of nursing theories with a philosophical perspective lays the framework for nursing practice (McCurry‚ Revell & Roy‚ 2008). My philosophy of nursing is to provide holistic care meeting the physical‚ social‚ economic‚ cognitive‚ and spiritual health of a person. This philosophy embraces the four elements of the nursing metaparadigm‚ which is person‚ environment‚ health
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Which of the various theories of morality is the closet I believe? I believe in my opinion. The most I believed must be ethical egoism. According to the definition the meaning of ethical egoism. Is based on someone best interest‚ which claims that individuals and myself only act in our self interest in life. For example‚ there was one occasion when I was following a powerlifting program and I was getting teach someone‚ who had experience powerlifting for almost 15 years of training powerlifting.
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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
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My Personal Theory of Counseling Kristen Bellows University of Texas at San Antonio My Personal Theory of Counseling Perhaps nothing is as significant to the success of the therapeutic process and nothing represents the foundation of successful therapy more than one’s personal theory of counseling. All individuals in all aspects of life work from some belief system‚ perspective‚ or model of how the world works‚ how things are‚ and how things interact. Developing a deep understanding
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