NURS513 Evidence Based Practice In Professional Nursing

Introduction

The nursing practice plays a significant function, which requires commitment from the part of the nurse towards providing high-quality and safe care to different patients in the healthcare environment. This commitment will not only assist the nurses to cope with the healthcare challenges, but as well to rehabilitate the patient following the disease. I perceive my worldview as an extensive than my professional development (Shaw & Degazon, 2008). Rather, I perceive my worldview of nursing as constituent of my philosophy, which ascertains my choices, judgments, as well as acts not only in healthcare environment, but as well in other spheres of my personal along with social life.

My Personal Worldview

The definition of my worldview that influences my personal philosophy of nursing towards patient care comprises the professional duty along with the structure of values, which ascertains my professional performance in my nursing practice. The primary suppositions of my worldview of nursing emanate from the network of values that I comply with and that I am attempting to stick to during my proficient performance, as well as my individual life. Primarily, I recognize human dignity as one of the main issues that nurses must respect plus safeguard using all available resources (Lawless & Moss, 2007). Thus, nurses must respect human dignity of every patient and they must avoid at all costs any prejudices along with biases as far as the patients are concerned. Next, the esteem for human rights emerges as another vital supposition that has continued to influence a number of values, which entails the central part of my personal worldview. Therefore, the right to confidentiality, as well as secrecy of patients must be among the principal concerns for professional nurse. In addition, I believe that I have the responsibility as a nurse to provide high-quality nursing care to each patient. I must do my greatest to offer every patient with the highest superiority of care service. In order to offer patient with care services of high-class as a nurse, I must continue developing plus progressing my professional expertise in addition to capabilities and providing patients with a number of counseling services (Clark, 2010).

In addition, my personal worldview is intimately intertwined with concepts like person, environment, health, as well as nursing practice. Thus, the person of the nurse is very crucial since a nurse must be ethical individual respecting human dignity, as well as cultural beliefs of the patient. The environmental condition must equal patients’ needs also where nurses must fashion patient-friendly environment and patient-centered approach setting where care will be provided adequately. The health of the patient is the main concern of the nurse that will embody both the physical and psychological health. Nurses should provide counseling services to the patient for better care with respect to cultural beliefs, norms, and religious beliefs (Monk, Winslade & Sinclair, 2008).

My Personal Philosophy and Nursing Theory

Florence Nightingale nursing theory perfectly fits my personal worldview, where providing the necessary environment for the patient is essential. Nightingale was the original nursing theorists that established the foundation to the nursing theory (Selanders, 2010). Nightingale became the first nursing theorists to develop the environmental nursing theory since she emphasized on the significance of the development of the healthy environment, in which patients could recover quickly and more efficiently. I totally concur with Florence Nightingale; however, I could further increase the development of favorable environment for patients, as well as I could harmonize her ideologies by the provision of counseling services along with the development of the relaxed surroundings based on psychological aspects.  

Additionally, Nightingale was a great supporter of the dominance of natural laws along with the scientific approach towards the practice of nursing. I concur with this approach to nursing. Nonetheless, considering the modern nursing setting, I could also bring in the idea of multiculturalism as one of the primary aspects of the modern nursing. In reality, nurses are working in multicultural environment where they should endeavor to do the best to create a universal system of values, as well as show the respect to human dignity of each patient within the environment that they operate. Therefore, nurses must be prepared to deal with patients from diverse cultures and they must meet their respective needs and offer efficient counseling services.  This implies that nurses should adapt to different cultural environments while offering the care services (George, 2002).

Specific Example

In my practice as a nurse, I have been involved in healing patients and their families in their quest for God. In this regard, I used to encourage patients who are seeking God because I believed that the quest of God by families and patients is a psychological base on the premise that nurses may build up psychological premise for the recuperation of the clients that I was handling (Yousefi & Abedi, 2011). I believed that the quest for God may help the patient to recover physically and spiritually. In my practice, I came to believe that the quest for God is vital; however, not necessarily for recovery of the patient and delivery of care services of superior quality, but there was the need for counseling services (Schwarzbaum & Thomas, 2008). Therefore, I started offering counseling services to the patients and psychological help for patients, whilst quest for God is basically one aspect of such psychological assistance.

My Worldview and Future Implications

My personal worldview is founded on the impacts of the future nursing that will influence the expansion of the nursing roles. For example, the traditional nursing practice was connected to the environment where the nursing was offered. Rather, I recommend developing the responsibility of nurses via offering counseling services for patients. I could not differentiate the physical in addition to spiritual or mental treatment of clients, where this is a novel element of nursing practice that was underrated previously. Furthermore, my individual worldview of nursing perceives multiculturalism being among the primary aspects of professional nursing performance, where they must come ready for job in new multicultural, as well as diverse surroundings, which impose novel roles (Ponterotto, 2010).

Conclusion

My personal worldview is strongly connected to the mutual respects for different patients from diverse cultural backgrounds and creating a favorable environment for successful and faster healing. This implies that I must utilize the patient-centered approach to match the care needs of each patient and assist the patient to rehabilitate and recover rapidly and efficiently.

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