Definition of Nursing
A title, a name, a label, that encompasses thousands of people with varying values and beliefs. It is an opportunity to spend one’s life caring for others while at the same time providing for his of her family. Nursing is patient centered and thus requires a person that is more concerned about the needs of people in periphery than in the mirror. Nursing requires more than the ability to perform required skills of a job and the completion of a 2 or 4 year degree. It requires the capacity to love, have empathy, and give unconditional positive regard to anyone seeking care.
Nursing Philosophy
The core of nursing is caring in which competency of care is the focus.
All people deserve unconditional positive regard and to be given a chance before being judged, furthermore it is not my job as a nurse to judge. Regardless the environment we all have a choice about what kind of person we are going to be.
The environment does not determine who you are, but a negative environment makes it hard to be positive and heal. By providing a positive environment nurses can facilitate positive attitudes and healing. It is however, the choice of the client to determine his/her attitude.
Your mind is a very powerful tool in the healing process. I believe that the will to being healthy is the first and most important step in being healthy. Furthermore, health is what ever one deems it to be. If one has lost a capacity permanently it is a matter of how this person views their situation that determines their health.
Not all nursing outcomes will be what we expect them to be. The reality of life is that we can not control the people that come in our doors nor what happens with in their bodies. As a nurse it is first of all important to facilitate a potential for healing.
We facilitate health by using evidence based interventions. This is the base of our job. As a nurse emerges into a professional tools such as empathy, unconditional positive regard, and therapeutic conversation come in to play.
I will live out my philosophy in practice with confidence. A confidence that is not afraid to admit when wrong, does not know the answer and that is egger for the input of peers and more experienced practitioners.
