Nursing Philosophy Ayesha Muhammad Alcorn State University July 27‚ 2010 Nursing Philosophy Nursing is more than just simply a career. Nursing is a calling from a higher power. I chose to be a nurse for several different reasons. My uncle was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in (date). The care and compassion shown to my uncle put nursing in another perspective for me. The feelings of care and comfort my family received during this tragic time had a strong impact on my decision to
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Philosophy of Nursing NURS 210 Transition to Pro Nursing Jillian Edwards DNc‚ MN‚ ARNP November 25‚ 2013 Introduction Around the world‚ nursing has many definitions. From place to place‚ the role of a nurse may change a thousand times. However‚ I believe‚ we do have one thing in common. The desire to care for our patients and treat them as a whole individual the way we would want to be treated if we were in the same position. I have wanted to be a nurse since I was young
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Nursing Philosophy: My Nursing Abstract Philosophy is a system of beliefs‚ it is often looked at as an effort to define nursing situations that is observed to exist or happen and serves as the basis for later theoretical formulations. Florence Nightingale the first nurse theorist‚ philosophy states that nursing is establishing and environment that allows persons to recover from illness. Nursing has four metaparadigms the client‚ the environment‚ health and nursing. Metaparadigms
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The nursing metaparadigm is a group of statements that identifies phenomena and incorporates philosophical assumptions that guide the development of nursing theory (Fawcett‚ 1984). Nursing scholars have historically agreed that the central concepts of the nursing metaparadigm include person‚ health‚ environment and nursing. Recently‚ the inclusion of a fifth concept‚ social justice‚ has been discussed in the literature as part of the metaparadigm. This paper will outline the meaning of these five
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Personal Philosophy of Nursing Nursing is a profession that I aspired to be a part of because nurses represent the very core of love‚ compassion‚ and caring. When I began working as a Supervisor in a Skilled Nursing Facility‚ I then developed my personal philosophy and set of values regarding nursing care. “Philosophy is defined as the study of the principles underlying conduct‚ thought‚ and the nature of the universe. A simple explanation of philosophy is that it entails a search for meaning in
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Running head: PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING PAPER Philosophy of Nursing Paper Person/ Family Person is the recipient of nursing care‚ the main center focus of the nursing practice. Person is all the aspects that create an individual from their family structure and their role in that structure to their life knowledge and their beliefs in all the aspects of their world. Person is not only how someone lives‚ its how they adapt and adjust to changes
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Philosophy of nursing occurs in four domains: person‚ health/illness‚ environment‚ and nurse. This writer intends to explore and explain philosophy in nursing in all four of these areas. The earliest theorist‚ Florence Nightingale‚ identified the main concerns of nurses to be the person‚ the environment‚ and the relationship between them (Williams&Wilkins‚ 2008). The idea of the nurses’ main concern to be on the person and the environment and the relationship between the two has shaped this students
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The word philosophy can be defined in many ways depending on how other view it. To better understand my philosophy in nursing‚ I would like to address my belief in four concepts. By using the four concept it will define what philosophy in nursing means to me. The four concept consist of an individual‚ health‚ environment‚ nursing and how they connect with one another. Environment is defined as “the conditions that surround someone or something: the conditions and influences that affect the
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Philosophy – First Assignment Anas Al-Domi Introduction Philosophy originates with the Greek word philosophia‚ which translates as "the love of wisdom". Philosophers are engaged in inquiry concerning the search for truth‚ the nature of universe and the meaning of human experience. Welch& Polifroni(1999). The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast the philosophical paradigms of Realism‚ Antirealism‚ Phenomenology ‚ Postmodernism. To relate the Empiricism
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Philosophy of Nursing Jennifer Moore University of Phoenix Philosophy of Nursing The purpose of this paper is to write a beginning philosophy of nursing that reflects the beliefs and values of me‚ Jennifer Moore. My personal philosophy as a nurse is to treat every patient as I would like to be treated. Why I Chose Nursing I chose nursing as my profession because nursing was something that had been
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