Philosophy of Nursing Practice and Its Value

This article discusses the philosophy of nursing practice and its value. It includes a SWOT analysis of the nursing profession, the author's personal philosophy on nursing, and strategies for developing resilience in nursing.

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PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING PRACTICE AND ITS VALUE
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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 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.

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Therefore, I can make use of this SWOT analysis structure for parenting, finances, or any
other aspects of my life. By considering this SWOT pattern, I analyse my nursing career: discover
what is standing on my way or who is on my side, and can determine how to overcome with the
threats or to transform those threats into my coming opportunity and weakness into strengths.
 Response to question 2:
The nursing field is multiplex in structure and for an individual; it becomes hard to
deal with, as it is a developing gradually and characterised by constant change (Marchak, 2014).
Therefore, my philosophy about nursing is one that I will remain by this nursing profession. The
ideology of nursing is based on providing skills, caring, merciful and ideal for all-encompassing
consideration to the best of my capacity and ability. This philosophy is rooted in the quality and
convictions imparted in me in the midst of my early childhood. These quality and beliefs are
followed by reliability, empathy and that is the thing that drove me to this profession and is
presently driving me as I keep on giving consideration to my patients, family and social groups.
It is my point of view that so as to keep in pace with what my philosophy is learning
should be taken as a vital role in one’s life. As a nurse, my philosophy is to find and surround
with the art of conveying the science of nursing holistically with modesty and humanity.
Proceeded with training about issues identified with patient’s consideration is very critical.
Through broad research, an abundance of data is discovered. This data can now incredibly
improve my abilities, hence enabling me to be better ready to give ideal quality consideration.
It was defined by Florence Nightingale that a person who is a receiver of care and realizes
that every person should be healed differently. I trust that the social convictions, ethic foundation
and sexual attitude of the patients and families ought to be regarded and I am certain about my
capacity and ability to proceed with my profession with demonstration any kind of discrimination.
In every human being’s continuum two main parameters, that is well-being and illness forms an

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important part. As stated by Dorothea Orem, people who take care of themselves lives longer and
happier than the one who does not maintain their health and care (Marchuk, 2014).
I promise to maintain the moral codes of the National Enrolled Nurse Association of
Australia (ANMF-SIG) by giving safe guidance, security, protection and privacy and ensuring
the patient’s right. I endeavour to be an instructor, an advisor of disease awareness, fitness
practices and an advocator of active family. I believe that nursing is something more than just a
profession. Therefore, nursing philosophy can be lived in both practical and theoretical field and
it is believed that nurses are meant to nourish their patients with care.
 Response to question 3:
At the very first stage, one can prefer to get into a health sector starting from a local
community to get better exposure. Acquiring experience, one can make those facilities avail to the
area where it is lacking. To improve resilience, one of the factors that are defined for nurses is to
be protective and to upgrade the key skills in order to secure themselves against problems in the
work area. The health services that one will join can possibly be not eco-friendly, comfortable, or
predictable to deal with, so being aware of the stress and ways to reduce it and to manage it, will
be a vital asset to them. Jackson et al., (2013), filtered some of the strategies to develop resilience
in nursing: establishment of positive relationship along with networking and mentoring, the
accomplishment of life balance and providing significance to one’s life with devotion.

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