Nursing
Philosophy of Nursing
Nursing is a client-centered, caring occupation. The client of nursing is the recipient of nursing care and may include the person across the lifespan, family, group, or community. I believe nursing is a scientific discipline that takes a holistic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of potential and actual responses to illness. Human dignity is considered with all caring plans, so are other humanistic principles such as altruism, equality, and justice. Each patient is assumed as an open system that tends to achieve a balance among the various forces operating upon it. The individual attempts to achieve balance with the respect to these forces by utilizing, conserving, and replenishing energy in order to function effectively and efficiently. The motivating energy underlying this interchange with the environment is assumed to be present from conception through the lifespan. Developing through the process of adaptation, each person is engaged in modification through interaction with the environment. Genetics, spiritual orientation, education, occupation, and cultural group membership influence individual development. I believe that individuals are rational, ever changing, and capable of making critical choices.
The principle of nursing is to lessen the effects of illness, promoting comfort and healing and assisting patients whether that is an optimum state of health or a dignified death. Even in postmortem care the nurse is there to comfort the client and the client’s family. Nurses are responsible for the prevention of illness for the client under their care. Nurses should be able to provide the client with a clean, caring, devoted, and amorous environment. Assistance should be offered in anything the client has trouble accomplishing.
Nursing should strengthen its practice through a commitment to innovation, research, and evidence-based practice. One should accept professional accountability to patients, families, and...
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