Nursing Philosophy I am Hayley Belzer and I have been an LPN for 9 months now. I grew up in the small town of Marceline, MO where I lived until I graduated high school. I moved to Columbia after high school and attended MACC, where I still go currently for nursing school. I wanted to become an RN because there are more job opportunities and I am able to do more with the scope of practice. I am a huge animal lover, which is kind of got me into nursing. I liked caring for the animals so much, that I thought that I could make a career for caring for people. Luckily I enjoyed caring for people also. I work on the internal medicine, a general med/surg floor, at the University Hospital. I really enjoy it because I get to see so much and nothing is ever …show more content…
At its heart, lies a fundamental respect for human dignity and an intuition for a patient’s needs.” To me this is nursing to a tee. To be a nurse you need to be respectful first of all and over time a nurse will just know what a patient needs based on past experience. Nursing has a huge impact on health care in today’s society. According to https://nursing.duke.edu/about/academic-philosophy, “Nursing exists as a function of society for the protection of its members through legally sanctioned roles, responsibilities, and scopes of practice. We believe that nursing is a scholarly discipline centered on assisting people to protect, promote, and optimize their health and abilities.” Nurses are advocates for their patients because we want nothing but the best for our patients. I practice nursing because I enjoy people and making them feel better. At the end of the day I like to think that I made someone's experience at the hospital a great one and they would come back because of me. When a person acknowledges all that you do for them, it's the best feeling because it makes me feel as tho I have made a