Personal Nursing Philosophy and Mission Statement

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Personal Nursing Philosophy and Mission Statement
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PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY IN NURSING AND MISSION STATEMENT 2
Personal Nursing Philosophy and Mission Statement
Introduction
Nursing can be define as the practice that aims at protecting and preventing illness as well
as injuries with the goal of alleviating suffering from the patient through diagnosis as well as
treatment (Strout, 2012). Nursing always aims at responding to human calls and advocating for
care of the population, communities and families. Philosophy in nursing refers to an attitude
towards human life as well as reality that often evolves from the belief of each nurse. Therefore,
from this definition, I have freedom to use my own beliefs while executing my duties in my
entire career. I believe that for me to be a good nurse, I must have acquired and apply the art of
caring for patients and use the knowledge of science to carry out diagnosis and effective
treatment thereby enhance quick recovery (Hawthorne & Yurkovich, 2016). The art of caring
usually enable the nurses to easily connect with the patient, develop relationship and trust
leading to occurrence of effective therapeutic nursing. Additionally, a competent nurse should
have technical knowledge such as the anatomy and human body physiology, pathology as well as
the current pharmacologic therapy guidelines. My personal philosophy of nursing tackle four
important elements: environment, society, interaction between a person, society and environment
as well as the recipient nursing care recipient.
Personal Vision
Vision plays vital role in ensuring there is emergence of new ideas though creation and
innovation to improve nursing services within the health care facilities. There is a need to
address health and illness thereby prevents suffering and pain experience by patients. My
personal vision as a nurse is that I will to provide excellent leadership and research in nursing as

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well as holistically care for all patients. I will give patient time to participate and give their ideas
concerning the care they want and that they are experiencing. I will give room for the patients to
integrate some of the experience they have had in their lives thereby enabling me to plan my care
based on the experienced they have shared. I will view the patients as exceptional human beings
and treat them with dignity as well as respect. I will incorporate values which allow me to
embrace everything that I undertake (Sharp, McAllister & Broadbent, 2016). Therefore, this will
allow me to be accountable for every action and practice inside the latitude my nursing license.
Personal Reflection
When growing up as a child, I use to admire nurses and the work that they were doing to
help sick people gain back their health. I remember how I long to grow up and put on the caps as
well as the white uniform that I used to see on the television. However, after a long period of
time, my personal idea concerning what it entails to be a nurse as changed. I have understood
that nursing is not just wearing uniform but rather a person who is capable of making a change in
somebody’s life. Through studies, I have come to realize that nursing is all about caring as well
as compassion that is delivered with the help of technology to offer enabling environment which
supports healing. Personally, nursing is a practice of giving back to the community (Kay Hogan
& Cleary, 2013).
I definitely met a lot of challenges, struggles and stress. I remember almost changing the
course during my second year in the 2nd semester. I was tired of routine nursing practices but I
hanged with it, thanks to my encouraging classmates. One of the major struggles that I face was
finding enough studying time as well as meeting the grade requirement (Rolfe, 2013). There
were occasion that I had two to three trials within a period of one week together with finishing