Question

Explain the relationship between your personal nursing philosophy and practice

Answer 1

A philosophy of nursing is a statement that outlines a nurse's values, ethics, and beliefs, as well as their motivation for being part of the profession. It covers a nurse's perspective regarding their education, practice, and patient care ethics.

The scope of nursing practice is defined as the range of roles, functions, responsibilities, and activities which registered nurses are educated and authorized to perform. Nursing practice is accomplished through: Utilization of nursing knowledge through the application of critical thinking, judgment and skill.

I think as a nurse you are held to the highest of standards and patients look up to you. You have to be on your toes and bring your A game everyday you clock in. By the time I clock out I am emotionally and physically drained. I can’t tell you how relieved I am to just sit in my car on the way home, but I can tell you that I go home feeling good because my Philosophy is to treat my patients as if they are my own family..
Effective nursing practice requires the application of knowledge, skills, caring, and art to care for patients in an effective, efficient, and considerate way. An important part of the knowledge used in making nursing clinical decisions is produced by research findings. Ideally, all patient care decisions should be based on research-evidence. Research findings are used to develop a protocol and the protocol is followed in daily nursing practice.

The use of a nursing philosophy as the basis for nursing practice promotes the proper application of nursing knowledge as well as the development of further nursing theory and knowledge.

My personal philosophy of nursing seeks to encompass the art of conveying nursing science holistically with compassion and dignity. To illustrate this nursing philosophy, the four nursing metaparadigm concepts are described in relation to nursing as both a science and an art.

Nursing science and art are also discussed in relation to nursing as a profession. The concepts of family-centered care and developmental care highlight the practice of nursing as an art.

The use of nursing knowledge in practice is discussed through the use of nursing's five ways of knowing, nursing theories, borrowed theories, and nursing's paradigms.

The concept of the nurse scholar and the further development of nursing knowledge is identified as a priority. Supportive examples from my nursing experience working in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are utilized to highlight the importance of nursing knowledge development and the provision of optimal patient care