¶ … nursing profession has debated the relevance of nursing models to nursing practice and it is clear that most nurses, particularly practicing nurses, continue to judge them to be not relevant" (Meehan, 2012, p
¶ … nursing profession has debated the relevance of nursing models to nursing practice and it is clear that most nurses, particularly practicing nurses, continue to judge them to be not relevant" (Meehan, 2012, p
Furthermore they will be more open to follow instruction and carry out goals to better health. "Community nurses may end up playing a big part in deciding where patients might be cared for and eventually die, hence the importance of forging strong therapeutic relationships with relatives" (Nyatanga, 2010, p
Society also plays a big role in many different ways, from rules and regulations to observing how people react to behaviors in person and in the media. "…disaster and its causes coincide with our moral reactions since Acts of God are reduced in their impact as being 'natural' disasters -- and yet disaster that could be read as human in its origin is read through the same lens -- nature and culture are the same" (Rudge, 2011, p
The telemetry and medsurg nursing education presently has got to train highly-skilled healthcare nurses to avert, acknowledge, deal with, and take care of cardiac-related diseases. Major health institutions have acknowledged the requirement for enhancements in nursing-education so as to improve the attitude of nursing professionals (Burgess, 1993)
This, I feel can only be done if I can put forward all the information required to make the decision in a manner that will be understood by the client, keeping in mind the ethnic and cultural outlooks and standards of every individual client, while also assisting the health service providers do their jobs in the insurance of the health provided to the clients. I, as a nurse, also have to keep in mind that every client, belonging to various groups in a society, on certain occasions will lean towards a group-decision instead of a completely personal decision (Christiansen, 1990)
I feel that in addition to that, a nurse should also accept every entity's varying levels of necessities, self-esteem and morals, while also paying attention to their physical condition, traditions, creed, age, ethnic group, sexual direction and category. I also feel that nurses should maintain impartiality through the build up of procedures, supervising benefits and the sustenance of source distribution to guarantee the fulfillment of the client requests (Cooper, 1991)
The nurses should be in constant contact with the management to guarantee their participation and to ensure the correct flow of information to the clients along with competent utilization of individual, scientific, monetary and innate assets. I, as a nurse, should also be capable of not only providing the clients with their needs but also countering any random changes made by the clients without hampering or endangering the relationship of the clients or the environment created (Noddings, 1984)
But the fact that scientists who develop new medicines, new devices, and new protocols are divorced from the complexities of actual medical practice can prove to be highly problematic. Faced with scientific, empirical facts and advice that do not seem to hold up to the immense (and even seemingly immeasurable) complexity that exists in the patient-to-patient variability of medical practice, there can be a temptation to throw out what is useful from basic science with the bathwater of experimental simplicity (Chinn & Kramer, 2010)
However, the knowledge that arises in the laboratory -- no matter how valid or secure -- is not the only basis for nursing. One of the great challenges for all medical professionals, including nurses, is how to blend knowledge that arises in the context of basic science and knowledge that arises within the context of the practice of medicine (Meleis, 2006, p
It is intellectually and cognitively easier (in generally) as well as ethically less problematic to accept a set of fact or a professional philosophy in whole-cloth fashion rather than having to quilt together a personal philosophy. However, this latter approach can be much more personally satisfying (Reed & Shearer, 2007, pp
Hermeneutics is not at any level an attempt to validate the idea that we can each make up our own reality. Indeed, to suggest anything like this is to do a great disservice to this philosophy (Rodgers & Knafl, 2005, p
This was due in some significant part to the fact that as more and more nurses were educated in formal university nursing programs (rather than receiving training more on the job), they became more and more influenced by the dialogue that was going on in other areas of academia. Just as the rest of society was caught up in radical changes during the 1960s, the university too was changing, admitting theories such as historicism (all the way through the most radical forms of postmodernism) that required people in different fields to recognize that truth is often far more relative than is comfortable to acknowledge (Tomey & Alligood, 2005)
Thus, the nursing care every patient receives should be adapted for that individual, because nursing care is the fundamental tool used to help people reorganize their automatically programmed responses to life situations, so that they can ultimately regain a functional level of health. As Nobel Laureate Richard Schrock said of the subject, "philosophy is an attitude toward life and reality that evolves from each nurse's beliefs" (Edwards, 1997)
Florence Nightingale, who paved the way for modern nursing as we know it today by establishing the first nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in 1860, defined nursing in her famous notes on the profession as "the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him to recovery" (Nightingale, 1860)
However, to maximize the value of caring in nursing, I also believe that it must be expressed with specific reference to the four domains outlined by Callista Roy's Adaptation Model of Nursing: person, environment, health and illness, and the professional nurse. Incorporation of Sister Callista Roy's Adaptation Model of Nursing The foundation of Roy's Adaptation Model of Nursing are the four domains of person, environment, health and illness, and nursing (Dobratz, 2008; Fawcett, 2005)
As medicine became more scientific and disciplined, nursing also developed into a scientific discipline that culminated in the late 20th century in the widespread appreciation for the value of empirical evidence-based nursing. However, some nursing theorists came to the conclusion that the shift toward empirically-based scientific nursing was beneficial in many respects, but potentially detrimental to the overall purpose of nursing in others (Fawcett, 2005)
My personal philosophy of nursing is to practice the comprehensive integration of my scientific training in empirical evidence-based clinical nursing within a framework that applies clinical nursing to the four domains addressed by Roy and with an overall focus on the carative elements outlined by Watson. Incorporation of Jean Watson Caring Theory of Nursing Jean Watson expressed the fundamental belief that good nursing required a balance between scientific clinical knowledge and a broader spectrum of knowledge outside the realm of clinical medicine (Pipe, Kelly, LeBrun, et
Personal Nursing Philosophy Conceptual Background of my Nursing Philosophy The history of nursing includes foundational shifts of perspective that were, at least in the past, largely functions of the limitations of the discipline in the pre-scientific era of medicine. In fact, at the time that Florence Nightingale pioneered the practice of insisting on a hygienic carative environment, she was unaware of the clinical value of that approach in terms of antisepsis (Reid, 2009; Taylor, Lillis, & LeMone, 2005)
These lower salaried employees will then afford more management opportunities for the nurse. Another current trend is that many nurses don't remain employed in nursing positions for their working life, and instead use it as a stepping stone (Duffield et al