Personal Experience: My Personal Philosophy Of Nursing

Philosophy of Nursing When I was six years old, my mother accidentally overdosed on prescription medication. My mom had suffered from back problems and HIV since before I was born, and she had also dealt with chronic migraines since she was a little girl. For as long as I can remember, she had taken a handful of pills before bed every night. She told my big sister that she sometimes wondered how many it would take for her body to just stop feeling anything and shut down. I was supposed to be sleeping but I heard her say it, so after she fell asleep that night, I got up and hid all of her pill bottles from her. I was terrified that she was going to leave me, and I was not ready to let her go. She ended up overdosing and spending about a month …show more content…
I spent those three months carrying a small picture of her around everywhere I went and sleeping in her pajamas every night. She got better and was able to come home. Since I slept with her every night, my family told me to make sure she did not take too many pills. We moved out of the house we lived in at that time and to a house where my room was right next to hers, so I stopped sleeping with her. I was about eight when we moved into the house we live in now. I was ten when my mother died because she overdosed again. My name is Cynthia Lowe, and I want to be a nurse because I know what it is like to be terrified to lose somebody as well as what it is like after it happens. I know that I can help people and be empathetic and I want to do that by being a nurse. I want to be able to help patients and their families by taking care of them, making sure that they are comfortable, listening to them when they just need someone to hear them out, and doing what …show more content…
Firstly, people are unique individuals that deserve respect and equal treatment. They are in a vulnerable position when they come to the hospital as they are quite literally putting their lives in the hands of others. They deserve to be treated as unique individuals rather than an illness returning in someone else’s body. For example, if I treat a one person for a stomach ulcer and a second person with a stomach ulcer comes in, it does not mean that the second ulcer will require the same treatment as the first or that it developed due to the same reasons as the ulcer on the first person. Secondly, the environment is an essential element in the health of the people in the world. The environment is an everchanging thing that is affected by everybody on planet Earth. Humans and the environment are coexisting and affecting each other in both negative and positive manners. As the environment grows colder more people tend to catch colds, and the flu is typically prevalent in the winter months of the year. Alternatively, as the environment grows warmer, you typically see and hear of less people getting sick. Nurses alter or enhance the environment around their patients to help their patients get better (Department of Nursing, 2017). For example, when a nurse has a patient that has a failing immune system, they may put that patient in a bubble. The bubble keeps the patient in a