Nursing Leadership and Personal Worldview

Running Head: NURSING LEADERSHIP
Nursing Leadership
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Nursing Leadership
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

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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