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Personal Philosophy Statement

Abstract

Nurses are independent, strong, and educated individuals that always strive for learning more on continuous basis that could strengthen their skills and knowledge, and also, they are always ready for embracing the needy individuals with a comforting touch, an open heart, and open ears. Throughout my experiences as a student of nursing, my nursing philosophy has experienced numerous positive changes. I have got experiences in so many things related to human care such as, in the field of clinical medicine, my learning related to nursing profession have led me to expand and improve my thinking patterns, value of nursing, and my core beliefs. Furthermore, it is also the responsibility of a nurse to pursue the standardized practices that comprises diagnosis, disease assessment, outcome identification, healthcare planning, implementation, and evaluation. For providing the best care to the patients, the overall nursing process must be completed by the nurse regularly. The process of nursing includes everything that is required by a nurse for making decisions effectively regarding patients. The nursing profession is based on numerous standardized professional practices of healthcare (Palmier et al., 2009). Such standards provide a description of experienced behavioral level in the professional activities that are in relation with the quality education, healthcare practices, collegiality, professional practice assessment, ethics, collaboration, resource utilization, research, and leadership tactics (ANA, 2004). Nursing goes beyond a single individual or place. Nursing is a way of life and a state of one's mind. Nurses act as guides in all the processes of healthcare and also advocate ill, weak, and miserable individuals of the society through care and sympathy.

Personal Philosophy Statement

Introduction

“It is the surgeon who saves a person's life.... it is the nurse who helps this person live.” - Florence Nightingale.

Most of the individuals assume that the profession of nursing is chosen by nurses simply as they are interested in helping others. Well, this is a true statement for nurses. However, the profession of nursing is much more in depth in comparison to any other profession. Nurses are supporters for all those people who are fearful for speaking or for all those individuals who have mislaid their capability to voice out their own problems. Nurses are educators in the sense as they teach patients as well as their families the skills and knowledge for maintaining the health. Nurses are also regarded as comforters in hard times of need, in situations when a patient is so much depressed because of his/her illness and wants to cry, and the presence of nurse assures them a feeling of not being alone. Nurses are also chameleons as they can change an individual's standardized health care plan for ensuring the patients' cultural sensitivity in an accommodating manner.

Regards for the patients and also for their families comprises of properly advocating them in their hard times. Through my participation in patients' healthcare is hospital, I have learned that it is the most significant for a nurse to act out as he/she is the advocate of the ...