The E-portfolio in Personal Philosophy of Nursing

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The E-portfolio in personal philosophy of nursing
Philosophy of nursing
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1 Biography
Biography
Title: Dr. Florence
Address: 1522 Washington DC.
Telephone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
I am Florence the head of family nursing practitioners department in the George Washington
medical centre where he is responsible of managing the entire department staffs, and also
offering nurse services, however I also serve as affiliate doctor where I where I do
clinician ,research and advocating in the various pediatric and family base settings. I started my
studies in nursing in year 2000 where I attained a diploma in nursing at Knoxville General
Hospital nursing college, later in 2003 I furthered my education and pursued Bachelor of Science
public health nursing at Florida state school of nursing, later did my masters program in science
nursing at George mason Washington university and later my doctorate degree at Texas
university.
Before joining the George Washington medical centre I worked in George Washington
university school of health in senior position as the head of school of medicine and as dean of
nursing department. After my degree program I travelled to some of developing countries like
Africa where I acted as the volunteer clinician where I assisted in provision of primary care,
HIV/AIDS training and treatments.
For like past two years from now, I had been working as an advanced practice nurse and nursing
researcher with the various groups of people living with HIV/AIDS in Washington DC. At this
moment am maintaining the nursing practice at the George Washington medical centre which is
mainly an infectious disease type of clinic that specializes on HIV/AIDS at south east
Washington DC.
I do the research mainly where I major in engaging the patients and taking personal care for the
people with HIV/AIDS, the international health care and socially determinate of health.

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2 My personal philosophy of nursing
2.1 Nursing theories
As a nurse professional and practitioner I observe the various nursing theories which fit my
career and service delivery which includes the following:
i. Need Theory.
ii. Unitary Human Beings theory.
iii. Self-Care Theory
iv. System Model theory.
v. Interpersonal Theory.
vi. Tran’s cultural nursing theory.
vii. From Novice to Expert theory.
2.2 Goals
Short term goals
i. To help the patients to recover from illness.
ii. To ensure that the health related hunger or poverty is eradicated.
iii. To achieve universal education for all.
iv. To achieve universal and affordable health care.
v. To significantly reduce the children mortality rate.
vi. To highly promote maternal health care (Dolly, 2019).
vii. To minimize HIV/AIDS, malaria, cholera and other infectious diseases.
viii. To provide conducive and sustainable health environment.
ix. To provide quality patient’s care (Jeanne, 2019).
x. To educate the patients and family members how to handle patients and prevent
themselves.
xi. To promote safety in the treatment environment.
xii. To promote the interpersonal skills to handle patients and staffs.
Long term goals
i. To acquire the use of technology in patients treatment.

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ii. To further my education career in nursing and related disciplines to get new skills and
knowledge by end year 2020.
iii. To become an expert and a specialist in the field of nursing.
iv. To master new skills of nursing care as I proceed with my service to people.
v. To always make use of acquired nursing knowledge and skills to develop staffs and
patients training programs in hospitals to boost the outcomes to patient’s treatments.
vi. To annually participate in the universal patients education programs.
vii. To annually offer financial and knowledge contributions to the medical related
scholarships.
2.3 Objectives
Below are my objectives as a nurse professional.
i. To work as a nurse in the health facilities aiming at providing of quality support to
various medical professionals including doctors and surgeons in order to provide
quality health service.
ii. To offer personal treatment to the patients and providing good, safe and conducive
treatment environment to my patients.
iii. To offer free training to the public on how to prevent themselves from the disease like
the HIV/AIDS infections (Sally,2015).
iv. To ensure that through the knowledge acquired I provides quality health care services
and also perform my duties in effective manner.
v. To offer patients care directly
vi. To offer patient's self-care education
vii. To offer emotional support to the patients and vulnerable group.
viii. To offer infections prevention measures
ix. To offer good team work in the working environment.
x. To state any signs of the body systems dysfunction to the infants, children or
adolescents
xi. To offer interpretation to the laboratory and physiological data.
xii. To be able to teaching and supervision to medical students.