My Nursing Philosophy

“Philosophy encompasses belief claims about the exploration of principles based on knowledge, being, and conduct; thus, stance is a specific view held by a person or group” (Burns & Groves, 2011, p. 229). Nursing for me, is a calling and caring passion of lifelong learning that, aims to support persons holistically with health and illness situations, promote healing environments, and assist in health promotion and disease prevention. Nursing involves formal education with complex substantive content reflecting a variety of disciplines, yet integrated into an approach to health and illness situations that represents the special influence of nursing; arriving at this point in nursing education and practice reflects my personal access to obtaining
Communities, individuals, and families necessitate holistic care; therefore, holistic care encompasses evaluating and treating individuals’ mental, emotional, physical, social, spiritual, cultural, and psychological needs. In addition, holistic care is essential for all persons to achieve ultimate health and wellbeing; and, healing the whole person should be the aim of nurses (Eliopoulos, 2014). Patients’ have a right to receive individualized patient centered care, and nurses have a responsibility to be culturally competent and ensure holistic care that respects patients’ values and ethics. By remaining sensitive to each individual’s values we can execute delivery of care by treating the body, mind, and spirit to promote efficient and effective quality of
182). As nurses we should promote health holistically, by focusing on our patients’ as a whole emplaning on strengths and barriers they may exist with their overall health. Focusing on the body, mind, and soul will increase the well-being of our patients’, and provide us with more optimal overall health. The essence of health care is the continuous and committed relationship between nurses and patients’; it is this connection that expedites communication and empowers patients to be involved in their health and well-being (Buttaro, Trybulski, Polgar-Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). Building relationships provides the patient to feel control in their individual health. When a patient feels empowerment they are heightened to integrate the best practices to maintain a state of healthy well-being. This will further provide quality on an individual level of healthy