Nursing is a profession that I esteem very highly for its profound credibility and altruism. This dignified role commands great respect amongst society’s need for health care that speaks volume. Nursing is a very humble and diverse career that helps patients achieve optimum health and wellness. My philosophy of nursing is that nursing is the foundation, and the core bridge to integrative health. Nursing is my way of giving back to society by helping others. Giving myself gives me a peace of mind and spirit. I’ve found that there is far more to healing than medicine. The ability to truly show a person that you care involves interacting with that person on a spiritual level. This level of interaction provides a therapeutic basis to promote trust
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The profession of nursing is all about caring for people. Care incorporates the whole patient, and not just a single illness or health concern treated in separation from the whole. Our holistic views consider all facets of a patient's life, and enables optimal quality of life to our patients. While human beings are essential to nursing, it is also important to look beyond the patient and the location in which a person lives. This is very imperative because people are groups of a community with diverse features and individualities that influence our patients, so we cannot isolate patients from their environment because they are interconnected. “Health is a vibrant state that exists on a continuum from wellness to illness and changes in response to environmental factors; health is more about quality of life. Lastly, nursing involves being with individual patients or communities and being engaged in the moment. Each day we as nurses encounter different situations that require our ability to make meaning of a patient's situation, such as, attaching significance to those things that can be felt, observed, heard, touched, smelled or imagined to our subjective interaction with patients. This process of being engaged in meaningful relationships requires we as nurses be actively involved” (Austgard, K …show more content…
It entails the deliverance of quality care with ultimate respect and patience for all people of all walks of life. “The moment we stop fighting for each other, that’s the moment we lose our humanity” (2012 Movie). The core of nursing lies in the humanity of individuals. Every human being has the fundamental right to have rest and activity, elimination, acceptance, safety, oxygenation, and nutrition. All of the qualities that a nurse possess make him/her an effective nurse are all for the common good. Quality nurses who continue to educate and hone their skills are able to provide outstanding care, because he or she is able to acquire knowledge about changes in the nursing world. A nurse is a team member of an interdisciplinary health care team. He or she is able to voice out the needs of her client and strive to achieve what she feels needs be done, within the limitations of the practice, in order to provide comfort for the
The profession of nursing is all about caring for people. Care incorporates the whole patient, and not just a single illness or health concern treated in separation from the whole. Our holistic views consider all facets of a patient's life, and enables optimal quality of life to our patients. While human beings are essential to nursing, it is also important to look beyond the patient and the location in which a person lives. This is very imperative because people are groups of a community with diverse features and individualities that influence our patients, so we cannot isolate patients from their environment because they are interconnected. “Health is a vibrant state that exists on a continuum from wellness to illness and changes in response to environmental factors; health is more about quality of life. Lastly, nursing involves being with individual patients or communities and being engaged in the moment. Each day we as nurses encounter different situations that require our ability to make meaning of a patient's situation, such as, attaching significance to those things that can be felt, observed, heard, touched, smelled or imagined to our subjective interaction with patients. This process of being engaged in meaningful relationships requires we as nurses be actively involved” (Austgard, K …show more content…
It entails the deliverance of quality care with ultimate respect and patience for all people of all walks of life. “The moment we stop fighting for each other, that’s the moment we lose our humanity” (2012 Movie). The core of nursing lies in the humanity of individuals. Every human being has the fundamental right to have rest and activity, elimination, acceptance, safety, oxygenation, and nutrition. All of the qualities that a nurse possess make him/her an effective nurse are all for the common good. Quality nurses who continue to educate and hone their skills are able to provide outstanding care, because he or she is able to acquire knowledge about changes in the nursing world. A nurse is a team member of an interdisciplinary health care team. He or she is able to voice out the needs of her client and strive to achieve what she feels needs be done, within the limitations of the practice, in order to provide comfort for the