Nursing Leadership: Worldview, Philosophy, Theory, and Practice

This essay delves into the author's personal worldview and its profound influence on their nursing philosophy and practice. It begins by defining the author's worldview, emphasizing the importance of human dignity, human rights, and providing high-quality patient care. The essay then connects this worldview to a specific nursing theory, Florence Nightingale's environmental theory, highlighting the similarities in prioritizing a supportive environment for patient recovery. A detailed example from the author's nursing practice is provided, illustrating how their worldview and Nightingale's theory guide their approach to patient care, particularly in offering counseling and spiritual support. The essay concludes by discussing how this worldview and nursing theory will shape the author's future practice, emphasizing the integration of multiculturalism and the expansion of nursing roles to include counseling and spiritual care, ultimately aiming for patient-centered care.

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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

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she emphasized on the significance of the development of the healthy environment, in which
patients could recover quickly and more efficiently. I totally concur with Florence Nightingale;
however, I could further increase the development of favorable environment for patients, as well
as I could harmonize her ideologies by the provision of counseling services along with the
development of the relaxed surroundings based on psychological aspects.
Additionally, Nightingale was a great supporter of the dominance of natural laws along
with the scientific approach towards the practice of nursing. I concur with this approach to
nursing. Nonetheless, considering the modern nursing setting, I could also bring in the idea of
multiculturalism as one of the primary aspects of the modern nursing. In reality, nurses are
working in multicultural environment where they should endeavor to do the best to create a
universal system of values, as well as show the respect to human dignity of each patient within
the environment that they operate. Therefore, nurses must be prepared to deal with patients from
diverse cultures and they must meet their respective needs and offer efficient counseling
services. This implies that nurses should adapt to different cultural environments while offering
the care services (George, 2002).
Specific Example
In my practice as a nurse, I have been involved in healing patients and their families in
their quest for God. In this regard, I used to encourage patients who are seeking God because I
believed that the quest of God by families and patients is a psychological base on the premise
that nurses may build up psychological premise for the recuperation of the clients that I was
handling (Yousefi & Abedi, 2011). I believed that the quest for God may help the patient to

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recover physically and spiritually. In my practice, I came to believe that the quest for God is
vital; however, not necessarily for recovery of the patient and delivery of care services of
superior quality, but there was the need for counseling services (Schwarzbaum & Thomas,
2008). Therefore, I started offering counseling services to the patients and psychological help for
patients, whilst quest for God is basically one aspect of such psychological assistance.
My Worldview and Future Implications
My personal worldview is founded on the impacts of the future nursing that will
influence the expansion of the nursing roles. For example, the traditional nursing practice was
connected to the environment where the nursing was offered. Rather, I recommend developing
the responsibility of nurses via offering counseling services for patients. I could not differentiate
the physical in addition to spiritual or mental treatment of clients, where this is a novel element
of nursing practice that was underrated previously. Furthermore, my individual worldview of
nursing perceives multiculturalism being among the primary aspects of professional nursing
performance, where they must come ready for job in new multicultural, as well as diverse
surroundings, which impose novel roles (Ponterotto, 2010).
Conclusion
My personal worldview is strongly connected to the mutual respects for different patients
from diverse cultural backgrounds and creating a favorable environment for successful and faster
healing. This implies that I must utilize the patient-centered approach to match the care needs of
each patient and assist the patient to rehabilitate and recover rapidly and efficiently.

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