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Module 2: Assignment 1 - Personal Philosophy of Nursing
Assignment - Personal Philosophy of Nursing
Developing a personal philosophy of nursing promotes reflection
on your worldview of nursing within the context of your beliefs, assumptions,
and values and your clinical practice experiences.
This assignment will be one of the first documents included in
your nursing portfolio (last week's assignment) which is aligned with the
course student learning outcome:
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Initiate a plan for continual development as a member of the
nursing profession through ongoing self-evaluation and life-long learning.
Your philosophy should be based upon the 4 concepts of the
nursing meta paradigm: Nursing•Health •Person •Environment as described in
chapter one of the Kearney-Nunnery (2020) textbook. Present your general
beliefs, assumptions, and values for each of these elements in your
introduction to your paper or under each concept. Use the following questions
as a guide for your thinking process. Check files in this module for the
sample philosophy that Florence Nightingale might have written if she was
completing this assignment.
DEFINITIONS:
Human beings/Person
What is your definition? (e.g., a bio psycho social &
spiritual being, an energy field, a set of behavioral systems?) What are
the attributes of persons (e.g., simple vs. complex, good vs. bad, capable of
learning, etc)? Who is the recipient of care (client, family,or community)?
Environment
What is your definition?
Where is the environment in which human beings are located?Are
there different components? Is there an internal and an external environment
for clients? Describe them.
If you were collecting data about the environment from a newly
admitted client, what would you assess?
What are the influences (or the effects) of this environment on
the person?
Health
How do you define health, personally and as a nurse? Is health
on a continuum? (Check definition of a continuum in your basic nursing
textbook). Can clients with chronic illness be healthy? What occurs
if your clients perceive health differently from
you? What does health mean to you?
Nursing
What does the term nursing signify
to you personally? Is it an art or a science or both? Give examples to explain
your answer.
Is nursing a process or a set of tasks? How would you
describe nursing (caring, therapeutic, relationship building, etc.)?
Why does this person need the nursing care that you provide?
What makes nursing care different from the care from other
professionals (e.g., physicians, social workers, physical therapist, etc.)?
What are the roles of nurses in the current healthcare- delivery
system?
ASSUMPTIONS: Statements you consider proven facts about nursing and
characteristics of professional nurses.
What does the concept of people, in general, signify to nurses?
What characteristics do nurses demonstrate?
What is unique about nurses and the nursing profession?
The article by Stalter and McCutcheon (2017), Discovering my nursing
philosophy,
addresses how your philosophy
impacts your clinical practice and the article by Hernandez (2009), Student
articulation of a nursing philosophical statement: An assignment to enhance
critical thinking skills and promote learning, provides examples of the benefits of
this assignment.
Instructions:
Complete
the assignment as a word document using APA format (title page and body of
paper, no abstract is needed).
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