Reflecting on My Nursing Journey: Philosophy and Mission Statement

This essay outlines a personal nursing philosophy and mission statement developed through reflection on experiences in a Practical Nursing program. It examines the evolution of the student's vision for their nursing career, addressing initial worries and struggles, and how learning has impacted those challenges. The philosophy emphasizes commitment, continuous improvement, accountability, teamwork, and innovation in delivering patient care. The mission statement focuses on using skills, knowledge, and compassion to make a difference in patients' lives. The essay also highlights the student's goals as a nurse-to-be, including lifelong learning, community service, and embodying core characteristics of a successful nurse. The student acknowledges the importance of their nursing philosophy in guiding their daily service delivery and striving for continuous improvement.

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Personal Nursing Philosophy and Mission Statement
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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

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clinical time at the hospital as well as going to class. Additionally, passing proficiency exams
such as ATI and HESI to advance to another semester in addition to classes, going to clinical and
undertaking projects was so stressful. The struggle that I still face is juggling a lot at one time.
Sometime, nursing practice requires me to attend to clinical work, do projects, and manage my
everyday life such as doing chores as well as family obligation. I often become overwhelmed and
feel like I have no life.
Learning various skills in nursing has enable me encounter various challenges and
struggles that i used to face over time. Gaining different knowledge has enable me to set my
priorities right, manage multiple patient and effective time management (William Rosa, 2014).
Additionally, gaining nursing skills and knowledge as enabled me to identify whenever there are
real problems and handle them within the stipulated time. Moreover, I have been able to capture
as well as understand importance of clinical trends.
Viewing nursing as a way of giving back to the society stands outs among other
reflection that I have concerning nursing practice. It stand out because I often have a good spirit
and peace of mind knowing that I have given myself out while trying to help other patient gain
their healthy condition back. The view stands out because I have a feeling that the community
deserve to have a health generation having contributed immensely to have us educated and gain
relevant skills. They have contributed through prayers, parental support and ensuring that there is
peace for daily activities to be carried out.
Initially, I used to view LPN nurses as only individuals who are trained to carry out
duties as bedside nurses within the health care facilities (Corrigan, & Kwasky, 2014). However, I
have come to realize that LPN nurses have wide scope of practice. For example, LPN undertakes

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duties such as administering medication, initiate intravenous (I) fluids and taking care for
patients who are mainly ventilator dependents (Schug, 2012). Moreover, my view of nursing as a
practice that only aims at promoting health and prevention of illness also change. I have nursing
as an entire practice that aims at promoting research and ensuring that there is safe environment
free for both the sick and the healthy people. The view of my nursing goal of wanting to become
top manager in the health sector as also change to advocating for better health care to all ethnic
groups and people from all walks of life (Titzer, Shirey, & Hauck, 2014).
Personal Philosophy and Mission Statement
My personal philosophy involve commitment and working to avoid repeating mistakes
thereby providing opportunity for individual grow mostly from older self into a new person
which is a measure of success. Therefore, my mission statement is to employ my skills,
knowledge as well as compassion in making difference on people’s lives that I serve (Braun,
Wesche, Frey,Weisweiler & Peus, 2012). The above philosophy can be achieved through factors
such as accountability, teamwork and innovation.
Teamwork
I believe that fostering collaboration and interdisciplinary association that encourages
mutual respects as well as teamwork always strengthen patient care in addition to promoting
transition of smooth care for the patients. Through challenge from colleagues, I will be able to
accomplish excellence and enable continuous improvement in quality of activities.
Accountability

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I believe that becoming accountable for everyday care that we provides as well as
upholding main medical center of excellence throughout. I believe in continuous professional
development with the help of ongoing training and certification. Additionally, my nursing
philosophy believes in nursing that is based on scientific evidences as well as the highest
professional standards.
Innovation
My philosophy is also based on utilizing creativity as well as innovative approaches in problem
solving. Additionally, I believe in continuous commitment and adoption of the best practices as
well as state of the art technology to help daily care. I believe in embracing of new opportunities
thereby contributing to the discipline advancement in nursing practice hence enhancing patient
care delivery standards (Read, Betancourt, & Morrison, 2016).
Personal Goals as Nurse-to-be
Like majority of us, deciding to pursue career in nursing was as a result of past
experiences which made me compliment the field together with its merits. Therefore, one of the
main vital goals as a nursing to be is to be able to achieve core characteristics capable of defining
an individual who is successful in nursing (Haberstroh, Duffey, Marble, & Ivers, 2014).
Secondly, I want to commit myself for lifelong learning. My main goal is stay current with the
information about nursing through attending of various conferences, taking different course and
getting certification. Moreover, am aiming to provide continuous community services to the
people who require medical assistance. It will be a privilege for me to assist the deprived
population thereby furthering the significance of being a registered nurse.
Conclusion

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Nursing is a profession that I have wanted to be part of because I believe nurses represent
the essence of compassion and caring. Through development of commitment as promising to
avoid mistakes in an effort minimize pain and enhance recovery. My personal philosophy in
nursing gives me a reason to carry on with daily service delivery. It helps me to avoid burning
out as well as encouraging me to do the best every day. Moreover, my nursing philosophy also
helps me to higher as well as better goals to myself and moving forward.

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