NUR 513 Topic 5 Assignment: Worldview and Nursing Process Personal Statement (Essay).

NUR 513 Topic 5 Assignment: Worldview and Nursing Process Personal Statement (Essay). My worldview has been molded and evolved throughout the course of my life and career. Multiple factors can influence a person’s worldview. Things that have impacted my worldview is my upbringing by a single mother, my family, my knowledge, and my patients. My life experiences have cultivated me into the person I am today. Three aspects of my worldview are ethical decisions, a strong knowledge base, and trust in others. No one persons worldview is better than anyone else’s. Each person’s worldview comes from personal experiences and may not fit into others world. There is no right or wrong with worldviews. “People nowadays construct their own personal worldview, which is not necessarily based on one specific organized worldview and therefore it can be more eclectic and idiosyncratic than an organized worldview” (van der Kooij, de Ruyter, & Miedema, 2015, p. 347). Growing up in a one-parent household made me the independent woman that I am today. It also made me appreciate everything I had (and didn’t have) as a child and have as an adult because I have worked for it and earned it all. The values my mother instilled in me remain and I have raised my children the same way. I believe this has made my children appreciate everything they have, and they know that nothing in life is free and everything is worth working for. “The way we view the world is constantly evolving and is shaped by a multitude of indigenous factors such as health, biology, and mental capacity and a number of exogenous factors including but not limited to, socioeconomic status, life experiences, environment, and culture” (Hoogland, 2015, p. 33).