Essay On Personal Definition Of Nursing
Personal Definition of Nursing
Maryville University
Personal Definition of Nursing
My definition of nursing is the protection, promotion, optimize the health, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations (American Nurses Association, 2013). Once you are involved in the nursing profession there is much more to it than caring and taking care of people. We help our patients emotionally by offering support and care, and just being there when they need to talk or sometimes cry. We are the patient advocates and the voice of our patients and need to speak on their behalf to ensure they receive safe and appropriate care.
Nurses take care of patients both physically and emotionally. …show more content…
This would include but not be limited to health care prevention and delivery of cost effective care with an emphasis on the person as a whole, not just their disease state. I desire to be a resource for and to the local area in which I have lived and practiced as a baccalaureate prepared RN for the past 10 years on both the macro and micro level. As an APN my philosophy will allow me to have both a greater impact and make a larger contribution to the community at large with now being able to follow a member of the community’s care from point of entry through recovery. I will have the tools and knowledge to impart behavior and lifestyle changes that will in turn help lend to a healthier community. My training ensures that I can better guide a patient through health care issues both large and small with a focus on the overall wellbeing of the patient in addition to the acute and/or chronic
Maryville University
Personal Definition of Nursing
My definition of nursing is the protection, promotion, optimize the health, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations (American Nurses Association, 2013). Once you are involved in the nursing profession there is much more to it than caring and taking care of people. We help our patients emotionally by offering support and care, and just being there when they need to talk or sometimes cry. We are the patient advocates and the voice of our patients and need to speak on their behalf to ensure they receive safe and appropriate care.
Nurses take care of patients both physically and emotionally. …show more content…
This would include but not be limited to health care prevention and delivery of cost effective care with an emphasis on the person as a whole, not just their disease state. I desire to be a resource for and to the local area in which I have lived and practiced as a baccalaureate prepared RN for the past 10 years on both the macro and micro level. As an APN my philosophy will allow me to have both a greater impact and make a larger contribution to the community at large with now being able to follow a member of the community’s care from point of entry through recovery. I will have the tools and knowledge to impart behavior and lifestyle changes that will in turn help lend to a healthier community. My training ensures that I can better guide a patient through health care issues both large and small with a focus on the overall wellbeing of the patient in addition to the acute and/or chronic