Additionally, past experiences with the medical profession, the progression of the patient's illness or health, and stage in life will also affect the nurse's responsiveness to the person. The 'person' always exist as part of an integrated system of care, incorporating not only physical needs but also spiritual, psychological, and socio-cultural demands that define the patient as an individual, as a member of a family, and as part of community (Hagopian, 2009, Slide 5)
I did that. Principles in nursing provide measurements to aim for (Dukes, 1989)
Principles in nursing provide measurements to aim for (Dukes, 1989). Concerning the future of nursing, I believe that our past history and our present pressures confront us now at a juncture demanding a choice of directions in which nursing may go (Mullane, 2000)
MY DEFINITION My definition of nursing has been derived from professional definitions combined with my personal experience in the field and in life. When the American Nursing Association first developed a definition of nursing in 1980 in covered many of the basic beliefs and standards that the profession is expected to follow and practice (Wilson, 2005)
Whether it is relieving a patient's pain, handling their post surgery care, or helping them recover from a heart attack, it is important to me that they had someone they could count on medically to provide a consistent level of confidence, comfort and care. The basic moral purpose of nursing -- working for humanity by doing what is essentially a vital, worthwhile and ethically demanding job (Woods, 2005)," contributes to my decision to become a nurse
An environment may be defined as "the immediate surroundings, the universe" (or at least the patient's universe) and what that universe may be said to contain at a particular point in time. (George, 1998, p
Conclusion In the end, the meta-paradigm as interpreted and reacted to above is echoed by scholarly research as well. There is a way to take Christian ethics too far and/or to use them wrongly, but there is nothing wrong with Christian or other ethics in the nursing paradigm so long as they are wielded correctly (Salladay, 2012)