Nursing Philosophy Of Nursing

Introduction

My philosophy of nursing is to serve the health care needs of the individuals and their families with compassion, equality, and excellence. The patient will receive respect, privacy, and confidentiality. Cultural beliefs, ethnic background, and sexual orientation will be respected and care will provided without discrimination. The relationship with the patient involves the whole patient with a focus on the body, mind, and spirit. As an advocate nurses should encourage the patient to become active in his or her own care and goal setting. Nurses have a commitment to keep current on skills and new knowledge and will accomplish this through continuing education. Nurses will utilize evidence-based practice because it is the key to

It is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the United States and offers a complete range of health care for patients from 15 weeks in utero to 21 years of age. The hospital’s main campus is located in the heart of Boston but it also has 15 satellite locations in eastern Massachusetts. (Boston Children’s Hospital, 2015) The nurse to patient ratio at BCH is small and leads to better patient care. On the neurology floor that I am interning on the max amount of patients you can get is 4, yet 3 is

It has the largest training program for pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists in the country. Medical and surgical trainees come from across the country and the world for the chance to learn from the best. It offers the only training programs in New England for adolescent medicine, neurodevelopmental disabilities, pediatrics sports medicine, and pediatric urology. It also has the largest accredited training programs in the country in the areas of child neurology, pediatric anesthesiology, and pediatric cardiology. (Boston Children’s Hospital,