An interesting topic to research is Advancing to a Practice Nurse from having an associate's degree for RNs. One article about this topic is “The Journey” by Melissa J. Wells. The author processes the degrees BSN, RN, and CPAN. Throughout this article, the author explains her journey from being a registered nurse to seeing more opportunities as she decided to go back to school. She pursued her dream career so quickly, and once it was completed she limited her life to sticking with her career as a registered nurse for 20 years!
The three worldviews underlying current nursing theories include modern Western, postmodern, and revived pagan. The six worldview concepts and nursing theories described in the textbook are the following: 1) Jean Watson: Philosophy and Science of Caring (Philosophy). 2) Sr.
Hi everyone, My name in Oscar E Hermosillo and I am from the NAU-Yuma nursing program. I have lived since I was 7 years old in a small town called Somerton which is roughly about 10-15 miles south of Yuma. My goals for future nursing practice are kind of up in the air right now.
When thinking about my personal philosophy of nursing the word diversity comes to mind. I myself come from a diverse background. Being Hispanic and living in different parts of the united states I have had the pleasure of experiencing different cultures. As a nurse, I have encountered diverse patient experiences. For example the Chinese elderly woman who would not take her medication or eat.
In high school I initially set out a goal to become a physical therapist. As time went on, I noticed my drive to become a PT waivered. To rejuvenate the process, I job shadowed a local PT at Saint Thomas Health. Although it was a great experience, it was not something I felt was a calling. With nursing however, I had a completely different feeling.
Christian nurses are given the unique ability to provide compassionate and spiritual care to a variety of patients. The purpose of this paper is to explain my definition of nursing as a caring art, describe how Christian faith impacts caring, describe my personal philosophy of nursing while identifying my own personal values and beliefs, and discus how my beliefs impact my nursing practice. To me, nursing as an art of caring, is defined as caring for the whole person, building meaningful relationships, and providing compassionate care. Holistic nursing care involves healing a person physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I believe the art of nursing is embedded in the steps we take to address problems that are not simply physical.
This process of learning provides us with experiences about; ourselves, others and the environment, in essence it provides a structure for our thinking. In addition, Buresh and Gordon (2000) stated that a nurse philosophy is hinged on the nurse’s values and beliefs regarding the profession and is acquired through observation and experiences over time. In fact, a person’s belief indicates what he
My Personal Philosophy and Values of Nursing Nursing is proving care, support, and serve people who are in need. The purpose of nursing is to improve patient 's health condition to a better life. The goal of this paper is to explain my personal philosophy and clarify some of my values of nursing. Personal Philosophy
My Intent to Be a Nurse Practitioner Coming from a third world country where there aren’t many opportunities for work and funding for education, proceding to nursing school was a grand opportunity. The privilege to attend a government subsidized school where top students in the region compete to get into the program that allowed only 60 students per year was indeed a blessing. As clinical rotations began, what was once considered a mere opportunity evolved into a true passion for caring as I truly love and enjoy nursing and helping people.
I have been working in the nursing home for three years now, and I have seen technological changes over the years. At first, we were using an old kiosking system to document activities of daily living (ADLs), intake and output (I&Os), vital signs (VS), and restorative nursing, while utilizing the paper MAR for medication administration and paper patients’ charts. We write our nurses’ notes in the paper chart. Our residents had been using call bells to notify staff whenever they need something. We also used an old bed alarm system, which was loud once a resident is out of bed.
This worldview was accepted by the nurse’s theorists and is viewed as important for nursing practice theory and education. Both the received view and perceived viewed were accepted by nursing theorists (McEwen & Wills,
My Values and Beliefs of Nursing I believe that nursing is focused on the holistic care of individuals and their families in order to achieve and maintain an optimal level of health, a great quality of life, and comfort. This is done through promoting healthy living, providing a safe environment, preventing illness, and caring for the individual
What does nursing mean to me? Nursing means helping people heal, meeting their needs while they are in your care, listening to concerns, protecting them from harm, and educating them how to care for themselves while treating them with dignity, compassion and respect and giving of yourself to the care of people and community. It is having compassion for people and their health and being a humanitarian, making sure they receive the best care possible. Nurses must also treat families of patients with kindness, realizing they are going through a stressful situation also. Nursing is a responsibility to provide the best care regardless of the patient’s age, race, religion, sex, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or their past.
In this paper we conduct the study in which we explain the concepts of profession and professionalism and the extensive use of these concepts in different professional groups.. Then paper shows the comparison of professionalism & professionalization. Moreover in this study, paper shows the different aspects of professionalism in Teaching, Comparison of Old vs. New professionalism, professionalism in Journalism, medicines, nursing, military and so on. The paper also describes the views of different scholars who argued against and in favor of the statement but most of the authors agreed on that the notion of professionalism has been changed from previous few decades.
My philosophy of nursing is a statement I will stand by as a nursing student and as a graduate nurse and will continue to incorporate it into my daily care. In my eyes, nursing is the ability to provide safe, holistic care to all people regardless of their age, race, gender, social status, or sexuality. Nursing is a profession in which it is essential to be caring and respectful of all patients in which they may be experiencing the most difficult health situations of their lives and to provide culturally safe care. My values of nursing shape my practice as a nurse and are affected by my views on health.
