Self Care Philosophy

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Chapters 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 have influenced my personal philosophy at a more intrapersonal perspective. The theorist of self care by Orem, goal attainment by King, adaptation by Sister Callista, system model by Johnson and Neuman, the four conservative principles by Levine, and unitary human beings by Rogers are basics to my personal nursing philosophy. It is a kind of self involvement and discovery of what was hidden and obviously stated by these theorists that help me identify myself with my own nursing image.
Did anything surprise you? What?
I am amazed even more on how those theorists have work hard and spent a lot of time to describe their theories in an understandable composition that ease our work by connecting our thinking

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