Suffering Definition

Caring for the human condition of suffering and pain has been a lifelong mission assigned to me by my grandmother, whose physical fragility and decline ignited the caregiver inside of me. It was her eyes that sparkled as she touched the family Bible or her crooked smiled at family members long since passed, that I knew suffering was only a temporary condition. This paper is a written declaration to the absence of suffering. It is the affirmation that suffering is the inability to see the alternate direction that life can take if one were to peek above the pain. Working closely with the permanently infirmed and the morbidly ill, I have found a greater sense of understanding about living till mortality. Living is the joy of having purpose regardless …show more content…
Comparatively the difference between Mrs. Newman’s theory and my personal values and beliefs are that Mrs. Newman simplified her approach to a patient’s well-being. It is my personal belief that there is more to treating medical chronicities. I feel, like Mrs. Newman, make the better choice, to have a better life, all with the understanding that one day your life will be. . .no. . .more. . . . I am sold on Mrs. Newman’s approach. I feel that many of my patients wait for their treatments to end, so their lives can began, as they do not understand the term, …show more content…
The first and foremost is to point my professional compass towards my Doctorate in Nursing Philosophy. I have a ways to go. But ways has never met me. I believe that putting in the work to understand the profession of Nursing on a cellular level will, by mere contact, help me increase my Nursing Knowledge. Secondly, in order to increase my expertise, I feel working in the Nursing profession as a Registered Nurse and later as a Nursing Educator will only add to my expertise. Lastly, performing Nursing research and assisting in the development of Nursing Action Plans, while sitting on Nursing committees, for my place of employment and my small business, will help me increase both Nursing expertise as well as Nursing Knowledge.
The Nursing philosophy in my clinical employment area is one Christian based idealisms of Healing, Preaching, and Teaching (Matthew 9:35 King James Bible) to our patients. Healing as the concept of spiritual healing in the wake of physical decline relays back to Mrs. Newman’s concept of personal evolution and living inside of illness. Preaching is the relaying of information to our patients that there is life within the space of disease, and Teaching as a way to find the peace through the absence of less than favorable