Personal Philosophy Statement

Question: Describes the people and experiences that have influenced the students personal philosophy of nursing? Answer: The profession of nursing aims to promote, protect and treat ailments of the people living in the society. The nursing profession is established to take care of individuals, families and the society as a whole thus its ability to serve creates the social health frameworks as well as develop knowledge and social awareness about diseases so that preventive mechanisms prevails over curing for a larger good. For me the profession is a mix of many values and characteristics those build the nursing philosophies and thus the attraction of these social values like care, compassion, respect have attracted me towards it. The personal philosophy that I have devised in the nursing career involves compassion, care, respect, honesty and adherence to ethical behavior expected out of a Service provider in health care. Since the profession gives the opportunity to serve and be useful for the social cause for a larger audience, I have chosen the career in nursing to be respected and remembered as a ca ring and competent personality and professional. The core values of ELI of mine suggest Autonomy and rationality and I put values over sensibility. Further temperance and patience are another part of character and it gives me fulfillment. Nevertheless, the rationalism in me also makes me analytical and thus enables me to reason for a problem and its solution measures (Ursin, 2008). The care and curing process involves various aspects of professional care time bound deliveries as well as standardized operational practices and ethical honesty in character (Academia.edu, 2014). Thus knowledge, competence and skills are key to the professional excellence. Hence it is imperative that the professional knows the diseases and their symptoms as well as processes for remedy. Application of class room knowledge in practical field of work needs understanding and introspection from learners side. I for a learner have adopted the philosophy of absorption of ideas so that the applications are done well. The mannerism those a nursing staff needs to accomplish, the degree of anticipation needed to help each of my patients under my care equal attention needs planning as well. Setting priorities for effective intervention and responsible care giving forms the very base of my personal professional philosophy. My personal value and belief systems have always directed me to be compassionate and caring towards others in distress. The previous visits in the Hospital floors have given me the idea of how complex emotional needs are in health care. The learning there gave me an idea of how much of emotional support is needed by a patient in distress along with physical treatments and care. These exposures have further broadened my scope to achieve even more skills those can break the barrier, build the rapport and generate a trust between care giver and user. Looking from the Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI), the professional core values like social health, compassion and influence of good health on society were further enhanced. These elements have values which are at the core of any Humanitarian approach. These social values and benefits were recognized by me while deciding the career ahead. Further, this also gave me the additional perspective to view the users set of values and determine their n eeds as well. Further information sharing to adopt the best care strategies also needs the perspective reading which again have an ELI angle to be judged from. Simulations in real life situation gave me my actual status and pointed the scope of improvements for my personal development as a health care professional. The professional nursing staff also needs to know about the standards, ethical and legal practices in action so that they too become competent on those fields. In it would be honesty of purpose, keeping up to the standards of privacy of patient information as well as collaboration among the caring team for effective maintenance of patients rights and needs. Most people are aware that health care is expensive so the level of awareness generation about disease and there causes are another aspect of the job that the profession demands. When a disease can be avoided the population wellbeing would create a very vibrant society where the role of me as a professional is very important. The application of learned knowledge in terms of awareness development and striving to improve the mass health wellbeing asks me to share and intervene with best of my capacity to prevent illness from happening (Koch, 2005). The knowledge and its application are embedded in the values of nursing which is professed via our professional behavior and attitudes. The inherent values in nursing and its ability to give the society wellbeing need to be demonstrated as a nursing professional in everyday health care practices. Further respect of choices, awareness about cultural issues and compassion like emotional competence are also key behind my personal philosophy. I hope these qualities those I have adopted based out of my value systems would enable me to achieve the respect and reward of the society as a whole in future, when I work as a professional health care provider. References Academia.edu. (2014). Personal Philosophy Statement. Retrieved 27 May 2015, from https://www.academia.edu/231408/Personal_Philosophy_Statement Constantino, R. (2014). ELSI: Ethical, Legal and Socio-cultural Issues in Nursing Viewed through a Complex Synergistic System Lens. Journal Of Nursing Care, 03(01) Koch, D. (2005). 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