Metaparadigm Of Nursing

Nursing Metaparadigm
Nursing has various definitions depending on every culture and generation from around the world. In my opinion, I defined nursing as a healthcare profession, which focuses on the care of people, their families, and communities to achieve an overall goal of relative health and quality of life throughout life. From this worldview I can define the metaparadigm concepts (Person, Environment, Heath, Nursing) of nursing to develop my own philosophy of nursing which, addresses the concerns of nursing, and further it enables me to assess what values I possess that will help achieve that philosophy. A metaparadigm represents the worldview of a discipline in its broadest perspective. The metaparadigm of nursing has four central
Knowing what I value provides me with a way to approach nursing. In addition, these values also provide me with something concrete to “check-in” with when making decisions about a client, administering medications, or providing interventions. I feel the value I admire most in myself is integrity. Integrity to me, in its simplest terms, means doing what is right when no one is looking. As a nurse we are trusted with client’s lives on a daily basis. The task of handling and administering powerful medications is just one role the nurse must perform that demonstrates the importance of integrity. Integrity is the moral fiber of credibility if we allow our integrity to be compromised, as nurses, we put our clients in harm’s way while simultaneously damaging our profession as a
At the very basic level nursing is about caring for someone, which is an instinct we learn from our family, our culture, and our life experiences. As professional nurses we take those instincts and develop them into a process, which provides care to the client based on a plan with a goal of achieving better health. We understand how to assess a client’s care plan and make necessary changes to achieve the goal of better health by incorporating empirical data, aesthetics, personal experience, and ethics into the practice of nursing. I understand that once I begin to practice as a nurse my philosophy will change. My current philosophy of nursing is based on my own life experiences up to this point. As a result of defining what values I possess, as well as, my concerns of nursing I have developed what my world view of the metaparadigm concepts of nursing (person, health, environment, and nurse) means to