Professional Nursing Philosophy Paper

Professional Nursing Philosophy Paper

In this paper, you will think about nursing as we know it today. Develop your own professional nursing practice philosophy. The focus of this paper is on the application of your beliefs and values within the context of the four (4) meta-paradigm concepts of:

1.

1. person

2. health

3. environment

4. nursing (the actions of holistic caring)

The paper should be organized and systematic in manner. The content should:

• be your original work
• flow and be easy to read
• be no more than 4 pages (including the cover page and the reference page).
• adhere to (includes introduction, body, conclusion) with correct grammar and spelling are expected.

Instructions:

1. Write your own unique personal nursing philosophy based on your beliefs and values.

2. Your philosophy paper should contain the four (4) Meta-paradigm concepts.

3. Your paper should also be:

o your original work

o four (4) pages (including the cover page and the reference page)

o typed according to for margins, formatting and spacing standards

4. Type your philosophy paper in a Word document and save the file.

Additional personalization:

I kind of already did part of this paper in an original discussion as a part of the same class. I will paste that discussion here for you to review and extract the information you consider pertinent to further improve and personalize the writing so there may be some coherence between my previous discussion and this new assignment. Thank you

This is my prior discussion from the same class, I hope it can be of use:

I proceed to present how I perceive the major domains or meta-paradigms of nursing.

First, a Person is a being composed of a biological sphere and a mental one that can be further divided into emotional, spiritual, psychological, etc., just like a body has systems within itself. A Person is the mind and the body combined; the objective and the subjective. Secondly, Health is more like a label to describe the state of these spheres that form a Person. If a sphere is in harmony and balance, then I call it healthy, and if it is altered or affected negatively, I call it unhealthy. I define the Environment as the factors external to the physical body of a person. Environmental factors should be seen as potentially modifiable to improve the Health of the patient. Finally, Nursing is a relationship established with the goal of assisting the Person to achieve health while respecting ethical standards.

These major domains interact with each other; thus, the negative alteration of one could also negatively impact another. For example, a terminal disease diagnosis pertaining to the persons biology likely would affect the psychological part of the Person, or a very contaminated environment could cause negative biological consequences. All three concepts are intimately connected and influence each other.

When looking at Watsons theory, the concept of Person is really similar, but she goes into further subdivisions of the subjective area, so instead of being only mind, she says there is a mind and also an independent spirit/nature, which is not contained within the mind but is outside of it. When analyzing the environment, I remain a generalist by seeing it as all outside of the body, but Watson goes further and specifies it includes the non-physical and even the nurse itself. Watsons view of Health and mine hold pretty similar perspectives. Finally, her concept of nursing is very well developed, introducing the 10 caritas processes that focus on love, while my concept is more geared towards a relationship respecting ethical standards.

When comparing my theory to that of Watsons, I see many points in common but also have slight differences. I believe those similarities are caused by us being contemporaneous in a society that has been influenced by Greek philosophers like Aristotle, who introduced concepts like body and mind in balance, or even the Asian culture concepts of Jing and Yang, which emphasize balance as the base of harmony and well-being. Even more, when going through her theory, I couldnt avoid feeling an instinctive understanding, as if her concepts were embodying part of a shared cultural consciousness in America.

Regarding the future of nursing, I cannot avoid feelings of concern. With the increasingly aging population, decline in natality rate, and the ever-increasing lifespan, the demand for nurses is guaranteed to increase to levels never seen before in a field where understaffing is a permanent issue. This will increase the pressure on nurses to assume the care of more patients at a time and thus increase the risk of negative outcomes for the patients. On the positive side, I see technology as an aid that could take some of the workload away from the nurses shoulders with programs that speed up the charting process or even additional staff that would handle tasks like recounting patients belongings that only hinder nurses from focusing on more complex and vital tasks.