This personal ethics statement articulates the core values motivating a nursing student's career path. Through structured reflection on passion, motivation, inspiration, and loyalty, the author explores why they entered nursing, what drives their actions, the emotional and spiritual sources sustaining their commitment, and the Christian faith principles underlying their professional ethics. The essay emphasizes service to others, personal transformation, emotional intelligence, maternal role modeling, and the integration of spiritual values into healthcare practice.
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 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 who 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 creation in as many ways as possible.
My actions are based on many things. Mostly, what moves me to act is a natural impulse to live, 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 along my pathway to redemption and transformation.
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 the way that it does. For me, my emotions keep me in motion. I feel that this is the necessary function of the emotive behaviors that arise from me from time to time. Emotion, for me, is energy in motion. Inspiration and emotions have a unique and special relationship to one another 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 than to receive. A special prayer by St. Francis of Assisi holds a special place in my heart, as my mother and I 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 essential.
"Christian values as framework for professional ethics and patient care"
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