Philosophy of Nursing Practice and Its Value

Running Head: PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING PRACTICE AND ITS VALUE
PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING PRACTICE AND ITS VALUE
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1PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING PRACTICE AND ITS VALUE
 Response to question 1:
In the present globalization, medical awareness or information is growing more and more
rapidly with a consistent evolution. This part of the discussion focus on the overall analysis of the
current state of nursing that is the strengths, opportunities, weakness and threats. The nursing
profession is experiencing a turning point of self-efficacy with the sing of exhaustion, which is
being one of the consequences.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths:
 Undergraduate nursing degree
 Critical care in ICU
 Systematic and organised
 Good communication skills
 Capable of working in the team
 Having previous work experience in
health care.
Weakness
 Knowledge gap.
 Totally devoted to work.
 Unbalance between work-life.
 Financial limitation.
 Easily stressed with high pressure
Opportunities
 New friends and family
 A profession that I love
 Further learning opportunities with
new application of technology.
 Chances of practising higher
research.
Threats
 Competition with and between other
nurses.
 Employment insecurity
 Financial limitation
 Only a few health care centre in
Australia.
 Gender discrimination.