Prime Reality In Nursing Essay

Prime reality is God. He is all knowing and is with each of us at all times. Some do not believe this is possible, but believers know this to be the truth. As Christians, we live by God’s word as written in the Bible and if we truly believe what is told, we will have no reason not to believe that God is the one and only Prime Reality. “Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below, There is no other.” (Deuteronomy 4:39 NIV) The nature of the world around us is the humans, animals, plants and matter (pg 35). While we see the world in many different ways, there is no one that has the explanation of the truth of the world. A painter will see the nature differently than a nurse, and a poet will see it differently than a policeman. How we see the world is our vision of what God wants us to see in it. The nature of nursing is formed around a spiritual healing process in which nurses need to be compassionate individuals and understand the patients’ spiritual needs as well as their physical needs and limitations. A human being is a homo sapiens of superior intelligence. Created by God in God’s own image to bring joy to his heart. Human beings are the only known

I do believe that there are times when it is impossible to treat someone with respect to their spiritual desires, but we should always try. This type of situation would be in an emergency situation where the patient is not being able to tell us their wishes and there is no one there to express the patients’ wishes. If everyone had their wishes in their medical files the healthcare professionals would have an easier time making a decision on what they believe is in the patient’s best medical