Personal Philosophy for Professional Nursing Practice
Nursing is a profession defined by caring. More specifically it is defined by four concepts including, patient, nurse, health and the environment in which one exists (Butts, 2015). These concepts will be expanded upon and impact they have upon the professional practice of nursing.
Nursing Autobiography
My desire to be a nurse was not realized until I was in college. I graduated high school in 2003 and started college at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in Pembroke, North Carolina. Here, I completed my first two years of general education and began my junior year completing core science courses for a major that would lead me to a profession in the medical field. I was beginning …show more content…
This concept is the reason for nursing. Individuals as a whole experience wellness and illness at some point in their lifespan and seek out medical care. Nursing is defined by providing care for individuals and assisting them in meeting their health care needs. The patient should be the center of all care provided. Each patient is different and requires individualized care. Health care should focus specifically on individual needs and incorporate the patient’s thoughts and ideas. Each patient must be at the center of their own care and educated by nursing to be proactive in maintaining or obtaining health and wellness. This requires the nursing aspect to assess and form a relationship with each patient to ensure they are aware of environmental and social issues that may affect the patient’s health. According to Manley and Marriot (2011), patient center care includes, “a philosophy that centres care on the person and not only their health care needs” (p.35). It also entails, understanding the patient, assisting them with informed decision making, providing patient specific information, offering support and also continuous evaluation of the patient’s progress (Manley and Marriot, 2011). It is imperative to nursing to recognize the patient as the center of their practice and to provide a holistic approach to providing …show more content…
Florence Nightingale is one of the leaders in research and theory relating to a patient’s environment. Rahim (2013) summarizes this early theory by describing the environment as the area and factors the nurse can modify to improve the patients state of health. While these factors included simple things in the past like hygiene, ventilation and noise, today these factors are more diverse. Environment in the modern area includes, sanitation, diet, socioeconomic factors and culture to name a few. One’s environment is the everyday situations, surroundings and decisions people make. An example of this would be, an individual of an impoverished area with diabetes attempting to maintain their state of health. The individual may not have the funding for medications or to eat the healthiest of foods leaving them with making poor decision between eating unhealthy and paying for other necessities in lieu of their medications. It is imperative for the health care provider to assess not only the patient but also, understand the environment in which they live and how it will impact their ability to manage their own health
Nursing is a profession defined by caring. More specifically it is defined by four concepts including, patient, nurse, health and the environment in which one exists (Butts, 2015). These concepts will be expanded upon and impact they have upon the professional practice of nursing.
Nursing Autobiography
My desire to be a nurse was not realized until I was in college. I graduated high school in 2003 and started college at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in Pembroke, North Carolina. Here, I completed my first two years of general education and began my junior year completing core science courses for a major that would lead me to a profession in the medical field. I was beginning …show more content…
This concept is the reason for nursing. Individuals as a whole experience wellness and illness at some point in their lifespan and seek out medical care. Nursing is defined by providing care for individuals and assisting them in meeting their health care needs. The patient should be the center of all care provided. Each patient is different and requires individualized care. Health care should focus specifically on individual needs and incorporate the patient’s thoughts and ideas. Each patient must be at the center of their own care and educated by nursing to be proactive in maintaining or obtaining health and wellness. This requires the nursing aspect to assess and form a relationship with each patient to ensure they are aware of environmental and social issues that may affect the patient’s health. According to Manley and Marriot (2011), patient center care includes, “a philosophy that centres care on the person and not only their health care needs” (p.35). It also entails, understanding the patient, assisting them with informed decision making, providing patient specific information, offering support and also continuous evaluation of the patient’s progress (Manley and Marriot, 2011). It is imperative to nursing to recognize the patient as the center of their practice and to provide a holistic approach to providing …show more content…
Florence Nightingale is one of the leaders in research and theory relating to a patient’s environment. Rahim (2013) summarizes this early theory by describing the environment as the area and factors the nurse can modify to improve the patients state of health. While these factors included simple things in the past like hygiene, ventilation and noise, today these factors are more diverse. Environment in the modern area includes, sanitation, diet, socioeconomic factors and culture to name a few. One’s environment is the everyday situations, surroundings and decisions people make. An example of this would be, an individual of an impoverished area with diabetes attempting to maintain their state of health. The individual may not have the funding for medications or to eat the healthiest of foods leaving them with making poor decision between eating unhealthy and paying for other necessities in lieu of their medications. It is imperative for the health care provider to assess not only the patient but also, understand the environment in which they live and how it will impact their ability to manage their own health