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Personal Philosophy of Nursing
Introduction
Nursing, as a profession, creates more opportunities in one’s lifetime than can be
imagined. The career allows interaction with persons from all walks of life. To achieve and
render quality health care services, the professionals have an underlying philosophical urge that
drives them to their success. In this case, treating their patients. This therefore calls for one to
understand not just the services being offered, but also have a broad-based cognition into the
profession. It would be wise to engage one's understanding with some of the critical factors that
encapsulate the workability of the profession, while also acknowledging that these are the
foundational building blocks, and thus are coherent toward developing an individual into a
competent nurse. To achieve this, we take a dive into the main and comparative domains that set
out an understanding of how nursing influences society at large, and how it is catapulted by
foundational factors that act as a building block for success. These include: nursing itself as the
profession, health, which we come to see plays a crucial role since it’s the main reason for the
existence of nurses in the 1st place, person, in this case cutting broadly between the caregiver and
the patient, and eventually the environment.
Body
Person
When one looks at person as an entity, the broader perspective that rings in the mind is
the one on personality. Well, that might be the case, but also acknowledge that there is an
increasing demand in the workforce for nurses. So, this means that the competition is high. The
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profession does not just come overnight, but one has to go through classroom lectures and
acquire some practical skills before they can be counted as professionals. Also, for them to
practice the profession, they need to have graduated. The wisdom then to look after a patient is
built off a class intervention, as much as the practice part is required, so that one might acquire
the cognitive skills to help the doctor and deliver quality services. This then makes the profession
effective and can be trusted, given that for one to be admitted to work in a hospital, they have to
have graduated.
Diversity is one of the common norms witnessed in our modern-day society. With this
being said, there is no telling the number of patients that nurses come across every day in their
profession. These might be from all walks of life, and even extensively, from different races. Of
course, there are usually some barriers that come along with nursing, one of them being
communication barriers or misunderstandings due to religion or beliefs. Take an example of
having to treat someone who does not want the medical interventions of a hospital, given that
they are accustomed to a treatment method that requires a traditional approach, if placed into
context. They might even be against medicines. See, this is one of the barriers that nurses come
across. In order to prevent miscommunication between the nurse and the patients, the caregivers
are taken through strategies that they can use to handle such cases, and in so doing, they become
no less wise.
The cornerstone of nursing is communication, and this requires a heart dedicated towards
ensuring that the patient receives quality service and at the same time the caregiver gets the work
done. In most cases, achieving this requires that the patient and nurse interact conversely and this
therefore calls for the need proper communication skills. There might be times when the nurse
has to break news to the family or the patient about a terminal illness, just as an example. In
Personal Philosophy of Nursing
Introduction
Nursing, as a profession, creates more opportunities in one’s lifetime than can be
imagined. The career allows interaction with persons from all walks of life. To achieve and
render quality health care services, the professionals have an underlying philosophical urge that
drives them to their success. In this case, treating their patients. This therefore calls for one to
understand not just the services being offered, but also have a broad-based cognition into the
profession. It would be wise to engage one's understanding with some of the critical factors that
encapsulate the workability of the profession, while also acknowledging that these are the
foundational building blocks, and thus are coherent toward developing an individual into a
competent nurse. To achieve this, we take a dive into the main and comparative domains that set
out an understanding of how nursing influences society at large, and how it is catapulted by
foundational factors that act as a building block for success. These include: nursing itself as the
profession, health, which we come to see plays a crucial role since it’s the main reason for the
existence of nurses in the 1st place, person, in this case cutting broadly between the caregiver and
the patient, and eventually the environment.
Body
Person
When one looks at person as an entity, the broader perspective that rings in the mind is
the one on personality. Well, that might be the case, but also acknowledge that there is an
increasing demand in the workforce for nurses. So, this means that the competition is high. The
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profession does not just come overnight, but one has to go through classroom lectures and
acquire some practical skills before they can be counted as professionals. Also, for them to
practice the profession, they need to have graduated. The wisdom then to look after a patient is
built off a class intervention, as much as the practice part is required, so that one might acquire
the cognitive skills to help the doctor and deliver quality services. This then makes the profession
effective and can be trusted, given that for one to be admitted to work in a hospital, they have to
have graduated.
Diversity is one of the common norms witnessed in our modern-day society. With this
being said, there is no telling the number of patients that nurses come across every day in their
profession. These might be from all walks of life, and even extensively, from different races. Of
course, there are usually some barriers that come along with nursing, one of them being
communication barriers or misunderstandings due to religion or beliefs. Take an example of
having to treat someone who does not want the medical interventions of a hospital, given that
they are accustomed to a treatment method that requires a traditional approach, if placed into
context. They might even be against medicines. See, this is one of the barriers that nurses come
across. In order to prevent miscommunication between the nurse and the patients, the caregivers
are taken through strategies that they can use to handle such cases, and in so doing, they become
no less wise.
The cornerstone of nursing is communication, and this requires a heart dedicated towards
ensuring that the patient receives quality service and at the same time the caregiver gets the work
done. In most cases, achieving this requires that the patient and nurse interact conversely and this
therefore calls for the need proper communication skills. There might be times when the nurse
has to break news to the family or the patient about a terminal illness, just as an example. In
