To me, Christian nursing is established on the belief that good health is a gift from God. This gift should be protected by living within the guidelines given to us by the Lord. Nursing should focus on human healing of the entire body: physical, mental, and spiritual. A lot of people forget that caring for a person’s mental and spiritual well being is just as important, and often times more important, than just caring for the physical problems of an individual. To me, nursing is a calling from God. It means to radiate faith and love towards others as you care for them in some of the best and worst times of their lives. Nursing is a ministry that is meant to provide compassionate care for the entire person. A Christian philosophy of …show more content…
We, as nurses, have little impact on a person’s home life, occupation, economic status, etc. We focus mainly on the person, and their physical, mental, and spiritual well being. As Christian nurses, we should create an environment that is welcoming and accepting. We should make sure that our patients know that we are concerned and care about their questions and concerns. Love and faith should be at the forefront of our care, and it is the main job of the nurse to ensure that our patients are comfortable in the environment that we practice …show more content…
Nursing focuses on being patient advocates and providing the best possible care for each of our patients. We are teachers, counselors, friends, maids, and so much more to so many people. To me, Christian nursing serves this same purpose, be we do so with a different motivation. We don’t do so because it’s our job, we do so because true Christian nurses have a servant’s heart. A Christian’s identity is entwined in their relationship with Jesus Christ. To be Christ-like, there is a strong desire to serve people based on choice, not based on need or “have to.” The patient is our main motivation. Christian nursing is very altruistic. So Christian nursing still serves the basic needs of other types of nursing, but we bring more emotion and spirituality to our
I pray that the busyness of life, the tasks that need to be done, the science of healthcare, sleep deprivation, or monotony will never cloud the love and compassion that I have for people. Personally, I love making connections with people. I love giving people a chance to tell their stories. During my nursing practice, I foresee that I will do my best to be the most caring nurse possible. The responsibility lays within each individual nurse as to the level of caring and compassion that they bring to carrying out their nursing duties. I will continually choose to focus on the needs of my patients above my own. Displaying empathy, I will strive to put myself in each one of their shoes and make self-reflection a priority. I foresee that I will do whatever is within my power to enhance trust, comfort, happiness, and wellness for my patients. This may look like spending extra time with a patient, visiting a patient when I’m off-duty, providing emotional or spiritual resources to a patient, respecting a patient’s beliefs and values, providing for any physical needs or extra comfort measures, or just lending a listening ear or a shoulder to cry on. My patients will always know that they are not
This is why building relationships is a huge component of nursing. One must treat a patient as a human and not just as another job to accomplish. Building relationships should not even be a job, I see it as our duty as humans and as christians. To get to know ones faith, personality, and problems one must talk to them and begin a relationship. Great things happen in my eyes when you get to know someone. It is very cool to see and learn about each unique individual that God created. I define health as feeling good, having no sicknesses, and being in a good state of being. Health is looked at differently by each individual. That is why it is important to realize what health means to each unique person. This is a major component in helping and providing care to each specific patient. I believe in the nursing field one will have to deal with many types of environments. As a nurse we will have to deal with children, elderly, teens, or even adults. Each one of these categories will provide unique and unpredictable settings and situations. To be a nurse you have to be able to adapt and deal with any situation or setting that you are put into. I feel as if the environment is always changing in the nursing profession. You will have to expect the unexpected. The environment will play a huge role in allowing the nurse to have a successful career by always being ready for
It explains my values and thoughts and how I practice as a nurse. My philosophy of nursing addresses the person, environment, health, and nursing according to the Christian Worldview metaparadigm. I have explored what nursing truly means to me, and have become better aware of my principles and values. Holistic nursing is important to me as I practice nursing. I want to value each patient as an individual. Respect for every patient is imperative in preserving a patient’s self-worth and dignity. My goal is for the patient to always be the focus of care and to advocate for them by making sure their values are understood and considered in their care plan. This information and these personal values will serve as a guide for my personal standards of nursing
... practice of medicine, combined with addressing holistic needs of the patient and family, including the physical, psychological, cognitive, emotional, spiritual and social care as it relates to being competent in nursing.
I am grateful to be at an institution of higher learning that understands and respects faith. My philosophy of nursing cannot be explained without God and Jesus. They are a part of each one of us. The reason that someone goes into a healthcare professional is usually to favorably treat a patient’s health. Spirituality of mind and body cannot be separated completely in my nursing philosophy. In this vein, nursing cannot be wholly separated from faith.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, It requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. (Masters, 2005 (p.186)
“Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken’, said Myrtle Aydelott (Hammarskjold, 2000). Nurses have our patients trust with their lives every day. These patients have needs that must be understood and met, whether; physical, psychological, or emotional. Nurses must provide nonjudgmental care to those in need, regardless of culture, religion, lifestyle choices, financial status, or hues of the human race. To quote Jean Watson, nursing theorist, “I am here to care for others, regardless of where they came from” (Hammarskjold, 2000). I believe that the nursing profession chose me because I have always had a calling to help those in need. Nursing
Nursing is considered one of the most trusted professions in the world. It is an essential part in the caregiving of sick, injured, and even healthy individuals. Developing a philosophy with any profession is the beginning basis of any practice. The nursing philosophy is usually incorporated from the science of nursing. That is because the field of health care is constantly changing, which causes the need of better competence in the health field of providing caring (Flagg, 2015). With nursing it starts by the science behind it. Then along with knowledge and experiences, that is when the nursing philosophy is developed. Researching differences between new ideas and cultural differences can then expand the viewpoint into a bigger picture.
Religion is a significant aspect of culture that must be understood and respected. Through understanding the differences in peoples cultures, a nurse who is tending to a patient who’s beliefs differ from his or her own can appropriately adjust care to respect the patient’s beliefs and
Although a values set which includes love, honesty, goodness, kindness, self-control, and peace seem non-controversial, identifying those values with Christianity makes them controversial. It is important professionally to be sensitive to others, colleagues or patients, while not compromising one’s own values and creating distress. Recognizing that I personally and professionally provide an example of standards valuable to the nursing profession is important on this journey to advanced practice nursing. I do enjoy the time that I spend with those who believe and behave similar to me, but I also enjoy providing compassion and kindness to those who believe and behave differently, whether those differences are based on culture, religion, age, or life
I chose nursing as my profession because nursing is my ideal profession. In nursing, I can provide others with the care and the knowledge they need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I can also give others the love and attention they need to be proud of the life they live. I think that society is very vulnerable and I want to make great contributions to the world of nursing. I don’t just want to be a nurse. I want to be a great nurse who is looked up to because of my experience, knowledge, and competence as a healthcare professional.
As a Christian nurse, one should care for the whole patient, which encompasses emotional health, physical health and spiritual health. First, a Christian nurse has the responsibility of ensuring that a patient has adequate care of his or her emotional health. The nurse caters for the emotional health of the patient, in several ways. The Christian faith requires that individuals handle others with love. Therefore, a Christian nurse should express love, for her patients. The nurse provides love...
It takes empathy for people by upstanding morals and values. As a nurse, my goal is to provide competent, empathetic, compassionate, and optimal holistic care to the best of my ability to my patients. This philosophy stems from the values and beliefs instilled in me during my childhood. These values and beliefs are accompanied by trust worthiness, respect, compassion, and that is what drove me to this profession and is currently driving me as I continue my journey as a bedside nurse.
Many of us know that nursing is a vast health field with many challenging factors that include to not only protect patients, promote health and well-being, prevent illness and injury, and alleviate pain and suffering but it is also a particular field that has the ability to expand one’s present knowledge and enable continuous growth. Nursing is a fantastic field of opportunity since it covers a wide range of career specialties and opportunities. One of which is missionary nursing. Many of you may have numerous questions regarding missionary nursing which may include what exactly is missionary nursing, what is its significance, the specific effects of spreading the gospel and the effect on healthcare in the community as well as the effect on
According to Kristen Swanson’s theory of caring, caring consists of Knowing, Being with, Doing for, Enabling, and maintaining belief. She believes that the environment and what is in the environment can affect people, either positively or negatively. As a nursing student, I possess the qualities of enabling, doing for, and being with. These qualities are implanted in me via my upbringing, culture, religious belief, and life experience/encounters(my environment). “Enabling” is the nurses’ responsibility to help the make a transition into the unknown.