My personal philosophy of nursing revolves around caring. For me, it is the benchmark of high quality, patient-centered, holistic nursing care. I believe that to provide high-quality care to those in need, we must first make an effort to purposefully include the art of caring (Jasmine, 2009). This does not negate the importance of including medical and nursing scientific knowledge in the care provide. Schrock (1981) stated that, “philosophy is an attitude toward life and reality that evolves from
My Nursing Philosophy and the Theory of Caring The development of a nursing philosophy is important for all nurses. As a nurse, I am attempting to establish my personal philosophy of nursing. Nursing is concerned with promoting and restoring health while providing care. Nursing focuses not only on the individual patient and his or her medical needs, but on the entire being and their environment. Nurses can be influential and have an impact on the people around them, therefore it is important for
The authors’ experience and wide range of existing research on inter-shift handover reveals that there are many different ways to hand over a client in the end of the nursing shift. This so-called “ritual” is central to good practice development but also aids a nurse to gain essential caseload knowledge at the beginning of the shift. Handover process may be divided into five major types: handover sheet, tape recorded, bedside, written and verbal (Miller 1998, Sexton et al. 2004). However, verbal
Use of Survey Tools to Promote Caring in Nursing “Effective use of an interpersonal tool, such as advocacy, enhances the care-giving environment.” (Selanders, L., Crane, P., 2012) This quote shows the importance of using advocacy as a tool to promote caring in the healthcare field. In light of modern healthcare striving for more holistic patient-centered care, it is important to encourage the use of tools that will focus on the patient’s perception of care and provide the nurse with a resource to
accept it. Jean Watson’s caring theory is applicable in today’s nursing because most Nursing schools include information under Watson’s theory in their practice. Watson’s theory would be very applicable and helpful in disease situations such as cancer. This researcher has chosen Jean Watson’s caring theory to be applied in caring for a disease situation (cancer), because she feels Watson would be the best theorist to care for this patient. Jean Watson’s Background Jean Watson was born 1940’s
fact that the nursing story has seldom been told can result in a lack of public awareness of nursing, which downplays the work nurses do, and limits the ability to attract young people to the profession (SULLIVAN, 2013). The public including ourselves and our families will all require a nurse at some time. This paper will focus on the issues and causes revolving around nursing shortages. Deciding on My Message I came to the decision to address the issue of nursing shortages. Nursing shortages is
Becoming Influential The fact that the nursing story has seldom been told can result in a lack of public awareness of nursing, which downplays the work nurses do, and limits the ability to attract young people to the profession (Sullivan, 2013). Often when nurses are being portrayed in the media, it is usually in a negative fashion (Donelan, Buerhaus, DesRiches, Dittus and Dutwin, 2008). The public including ourselves and our families will all require a nurse at some time. This paper will focus
Margot and myself would like to see a permanent onsite day care facility within CVL, however, due to time constraints we are focusing our attention on laying the groundwork for a day program that runs two to three times per week by the end of the semester. Through this program we hope to strengthen community and improve the quality and delivery of patient care, while at the same time challenge hegemony and initiate a shift in our health care delivery system. The project we have been granted is brand
the positive experiences that I have had with nurse practitioners throughout my career. During my tenure in social services I have worked parallel to nurse practitioners in providing care to child victims of physical and sexual assault and I have long appreciated the holistic and collaborative approach that nursing allows for. While my experience in social services cemented my decision to pursue a career as a family nurse practitioner, it also helped me develop qualities that will serve me well as
Nurses are very important people in a health care setting because they are with the patients most of the time and provide most diversified care to the patient compared to that of the doctors. Nurses have very important roles in health care provision industry because nurses most of their time and part of their life is spent taking care of other people in the hospitals or other areas who have got different illness or traumas and also the elderly who’s relatives prefer bringing them to the hospital