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¶ … Nursing Philosophy
We all have a philosophy -- whether related to our professional engagements or otherwise. Indeed, it is on the basis of our individual philosophies that we form the conduct of life. A nursing philosophy in the words of Reed (as cited in Masters 2014, p. 100) is essentially "a statement of foundational and universal assumptions, beliefs, and principles about the nature of truth and knowledge (epistemology) and about the nature of the entities -- nursing practice and human being healing process-represented in the metaparadigm (ontology)."
Although I may not yet be a nurse, I do have a personal philosophy that I intend to practice and apply on entering the nursing field. In addition to representing my belief about this noble profession, my personal philosophy also allocates meaning to my future roles as a nurse and responsibility to patients. In seeking to highlight my personal philosophy, I will be focusing on a number of concepts around which the said philosophy is built.
From the onset, it is important to...
People differ on the basis of culture, lifestyle, gender, ethnicity, preferences, etc. In that regard, therefore, I believe that individuals ought to be allowed full participation in decisions that have an impact on their health and well-being. As unique beings, people also ought to be treated with utmost respect, compassion, and care. In my opinion, it is the responsibility of nurses to ensure that the health care environment is supportive of all those who interact with it -- from patients to their families. In this case, the right to self-determination, participation, and self-expression ought to be safeguarded.
When it comes to my belief about health, it would be prudent to briefly highlight the meaning of health as per the definition offered to the same by the World Health Organization. According to WHO (as cited in Brannon, Feist, and Updegraff, 2013, p.10), "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Health,…
References
Brannon, L., Feist, J.S. And Updegraff, J. (2013). Health Psychology: An Introduction to Behavior and Health (8th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning
Masters, K. (Ed.). (2014). Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
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There are clear philosophical connections between the core ideas of hermeneutics and those of historicism, because each posits a potentially radical degree of relativism. Rodgers & Knafl (2005) explore this, arguing not for a return to any radical empiricism but rather to acknowledge that while knowledge and certainly medical praxis is socially constructed (and constructed along lines of socially sanctioned power hierarchies), there are fundamental empirical elements to nursing that
Critics of holistic nursing have occasionally insinuated that holism is somehow incompatible with evidence-based practice such as that which underlies the Magnet standards. That is truly unfortunate. Holistic concerns in nursing are more than merely "compatible" with an evidence-based perspective; in fact, the holistic emphasis is an expansion of available treatment modalities that has been demonstrated empirically to bolster clinical success rather than competing with it or contradicting it (Stetler,
I also feel that nurses should maintain impartiality through the build up of procedures, supervising benefits and the sustenance of source distribution to guarantee the fulfillment of the client requests (Cooper, 1991). Confidentiality also believe that a nurse should be able to handle situations where the data of a client conflicts with the greater good that could be achieved with the publication of that particular info and when it is
Nursing Philosophy The author of this report is asked to offer three main points of discussion within this report. These three sections all related to nursing theory and they will be compared and contrasted to the personal philosophy of the author of this paper. The three points of discussion are the four meta-paradigms of nursing theory, two practice-specific concepts and a list of propositions that the author of this paper would
However, from the anti-realist point-of-view, such manifestations are not enough for an individual to consider the patient alive. One can posit that the absence of the patient's ability to communicate or interact is a manifestation of death, or the state of not being alive. That is, despite the biological signs of life shown in the apparatuses, anti-realists view the patient as dead because s/he is no longer able to