PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

In order to write a philosophy of nursing, I believe that first one must decide what philosophy means to them. I think Shrock stated it best when she said, “philosophy is an attitude toward life and reality that evolves from each nurses beliefs…” (Edwards, 1997, 1089). My philosophy of nursing addresses four things: society, environment, the recipient of nursing care, and the interaction between society, person and the environment.

The simplest definition of society is a group of people with common interests. Societies for nursing would by this definition, evolve for each given ...