Essay On Stewardship

Registered nurses who pursue Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) degree must hold many qualities that will set them apart from others. For example, APNs must possess impeccable communication and leadership skills, ability to collaborate with professional and paraprofessional staff with ease, rely upon evidence-based data during assessment, diagnosis, treatment development, and evaluation. Above all APNs must also recognize their stewardship role. In this paper the following three aspects will be discussed: (a) definition of stewardship, (b) how stewardship relates to advance nursing practice (ANP), and (c) incorporation of stewardship in my Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner practice. Merriam-Webster dictionary simply defines stewardship as “the activity or job of protecting and being responsible for something.” This definition evoke many questions, which lead to my research in knowing what stewardship is and what it means from the Christian perspective and how I might be able to not only incorporate it in my practice, but make it part of my everyday living. During my search I came across a very simple, but clear statement, “God owns everything, we are simply
Though this paper does not allow for full exploration of them, I must share my gained knowledge. First, it is central for an APN to understand that we are entrusted by God to be stewards of wellness and as such we are to take good care of His people. APNs must be responsible, making appropriate treatment decisions and doing so ethically. APNs must be accountable for their treatment decisions not only to patients and colleagues, but God. Lastly, the reward of our labor awaits us in the after life, though we must fully enjoy our art as we practice it. These four principles, I believe, are an essential values that must be understood by all