Personal Philosophy of Nursing The profession of nursing has been rapidly changing and evolving for many years. With the profession always changing and new research emerging, it is important to find a strong meaning for what nursing is and be able to apply those reasons in your career. Nursing theories guide the nursing practice by providing a knowledge base and helping nurses achieve their goals with patients. According to nurse theorist Dorothy E. Johnson, nursing problems arise when there are disturbances in the system or subsystem or the level of behavioral functioning is below optimal level (LeMone, Lillis, Lynn, and Taylor (2008). My philosophy of nursing incorporates interventions to treat and prevent disturbances to support and maintain
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Dorothy E. Johnson states, “Health is a continual, open process (rather than an absence of illness), with nursing care planned based on the patient’s perspective of health and care” (LeMone et al. 2008). Like Johnson, I believe a person can achieve health with or without a chronic disease. For example, patients with diabetes can remain free of complications most times through habits such exercising, eating nutritional foods, and keeping up with medications as needed. They are able to function each day comfortably. A client with or without a chronic disease should start daily healthy habits to keep working on achieving an optimal level of functioning. The nurse can provide education on health in the community, hospital, and other settings. Not everyone’s definition of health is the same though. When with a client who may have another definition of health, the nurse should listen to the patient and come together to work on a plan to help he or she achieve their goal of health, as long as it is safe and not harmful to the …show more content…
According to the nurse theorist Betty Neuman, the person is made of physiological, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental variables. (Reed, 1993) The nurse should assess and treat each of these variables to be able to treat the patient to the best of their ability because each of these variables serves a role in the person’s well being. The person is also not the only one being nursed. While providing care the client, family, and community is being nursed. The client is nursed through the actions and interventions provided by the nurse. The family is often also nursed because of these interventions for the client, and also sometimes needs support and reassurance from the nurse. This support and reassurance goes out to the community as well. Education can be provided to the community as a result of a patient’s conditions or what is happening to
Dorothy E. Johnson states, “Health is a continual, open process (rather than an absence of illness), with nursing care planned based on the patient’s perspective of health and care” (LeMone et al. 2008). Like Johnson, I believe a person can achieve health with or without a chronic disease. For example, patients with diabetes can remain free of complications most times through habits such exercising, eating nutritional foods, and keeping up with medications as needed. They are able to function each day comfortably. A client with or without a chronic disease should start daily healthy habits to keep working on achieving an optimal level of functioning. The nurse can provide education on health in the community, hospital, and other settings. Not everyone’s definition of health is the same though. When with a client who may have another definition of health, the nurse should listen to the patient and come together to work on a plan to help he or she achieve their goal of health, as long as it is safe and not harmful to the …show more content…
According to the nurse theorist Betty Neuman, the person is made of physiological, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and developmental variables. (Reed, 1993) The nurse should assess and treat each of these variables to be able to treat the patient to the best of their ability because each of these variables serves a role in the person’s well being. The person is also not the only one being nursed. While providing care the client, family, and community is being nursed. The client is nursed through the actions and interventions provided by the nurse. The family is often also nursed because of these interventions for the client, and also sometimes needs support and reassurance from the nurse. This support and reassurance goes out to the community as well. Education can be provided to the community as a result of a patient’s conditions or what is happening to