Professional moral compass in nursing ethics

Nursing Ethics

My Nursing Ethic

PASSION: Why am I here?

I am here to learn and become a better person through the service and love of others. I am here because I need to earn money to stay alive and nursing provides that type of material sustenance. I am passionate about many things, and I like to accomplish goals that are challenging and transformative in nature. There are many aspects to nursing and nursing school that provide the necessary components to the things that can make me a better person, in mind body and soul.

I am also here because I love to serve others to satisfy my own personal needs. I feel better about myself when I am helping others. This may seem selfish in some ways, but those that need my help will surely welcome it if they are willing. I am passionate about making this world a better place while I am living in it and seek to contribute to the divine creation in many ways as possible.

MOTIVATION: What moves me to act?

My actions are based on many things. Mostly what moves me to act is a natural impulse to live and breathe and experience life as it comes to me in many different fashions and colors. Nursing is merely a pathway of experience. Doing my best and providing my own personal creative insight to the art and science of nursing is essentially what motivates me to act and provides the necessary motivation to continue my studies and journey on in my pathway to redemption and transformation.

INSPIRATION: What keeps me in motion?

The things that inspire me are very difficult to describe in words. In many ways I do not even care to understand how and why my inspiration affects me in the way that it does. For me, my emotions, keep me in motion. I feel that is the necessary function of the emotive behaviors that arise out of me from time to time. Emotion, for me, is energy in motion. Inspiration and emotions have a unique and special relationship to one another for me as I take what I learn and use it to the best of my abilities.

My true inspiration comes from my mother who loved me very much as a child and taught me it was better to give then to receive. A special prayer by St. Francis of Assisi holds a special place in my heart as me and my mother would often recite this prayer before bedtime. This prayer asks the divine creator for inspiration in the mold of peace and love. These things truly inspire me and I feel that my spiritual guidance along with my maternal role modeling has combined to provide the necessary inspiration to pursue a healing profession where selfless service and dedication are very necessary.

LOYALTY: Whom do I serve?