Nursing Philosophy: Exploring Concepts and Professional Standards

This report delves into the core principles of nursing philosophy, highlighting the importance of patient-centered care, ethical considerations, and professional standards. The author emphasizes the significance of cultural and spiritual competence in fostering therapeutic relationships and improving patient outcomes. The report examines the role of the environment in patient comfort, and the importance of addressing both mental and physical health needs. Furthermore, it emphasizes the core values of nursing such as dignity, human, autonomy, altruism, and social justice, which are all guided by the ethical philosophy of nursing. The report also references key sources, including Dahnke & Dreher (2015), Matua (2015), and Sellman (2015), to support the discussion on the chosen nursing philosophy and its application in practice.

Running head: NURSING PHILOSOPHY
Nursing philosophy
Name of the student
Name of the university
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Nursing philosophy is a set of principles, which guide the parameters of quality nursing
practice and also set out the professional standards and code of conduct of the nursing profession
(Matua, 2015). This paper will highlight a personal reflection based on the underpinning factor
of the nursing philosophy.
The profession of nursing refers to an inherent bond of trust and respect that exists
between patient and their professional care (nurses). In addition to this, the philosophy of
nursing also assists the nursing professionals to improve the health and quality of life philosophy
of the service users through a person-centered approach (Dahnke & Dreher, 2015). Four
different nursing concepts are pillar of my nursing philosophy. First pillar of my selected nursing
philosophy is providing proper respect psychological, social, spiritual and cultural beliefs of the
service users. This cultural and spiritual competence procured through person-centered care plan
helps to improve the overall quality of care while helping to develop therapeutic relationships
(Matua, 2015). Secondly, my selected the nursing philosophy is to give importance to the
surrounding environment of the patient. It is the responsibility of every nurse to provide
comfortable environment to patient through empathy in order to increase their comfort level.
Thirdly, the nursing professionals must give comprehensive importance to mental and physical
health of the service users’ health in order to promote speedy recovery (Sellman, 2015). Lastly I
think, as a nurse it is our duty to provide care by showing empathy, compassion and prioritizing
patient need through five core value of nursing such as dignity, human, autonomy, altruism, and
social justice. All these concepts are guided by the ethical philosophy of nursing. I selected these
four pillars underpinning the nursing philosophy in order promote speedy recovery of the
patients both from physiological and mental health perspective.

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References
Dahnke, M. D., & Dreher, H. M. (2015). Philosophy of science for nursing practice: Concepts
and application. Springer Publishing Company.
Matua, G. A. (2015). Choosing phenomenology as a guiding philosophy for nursing
research. Nurse Researcher (2014+), 22(4), 30.
Sellman, D. (2015). On losing three friends of Nursing Philosophy. Nursing Philosophy, 16(1),
1-2.