I have been drawn to nursing ever since I was in kindergarten. The nurses I have met throughout my life have been an inspiration to reach my goal. I never had a plan B while applying to the nursing program because I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything else. Being a nurse is an honor and a blessing. We are there to witness the beginning and end of life, helping individuals during their most vulnerable times. Having the ability to comfort those in need, lift their spirits, relieve their pain, treat their disease and guide them to recovery and a healthier lifestyle is truly amazing. It is important as nurses to never hold a patient’s ethnicity, religion, culture, socioeconomic status or sex against providing them high quality care. Nonjudgmental patient centered care is what nursing is about. We are there to care for our patients regardless of who they are, what they’ve done or where they’re from. Our patients should be given the care that we would want our loved ones to receive.
The beauty of nursing is that it will continue to challenge us in a way that will push us to continue advancing our knowledge and learning new and better ways to treat our patients. Nursing has numerous areas of specialties that will allow us to have a little taste of everything before finding our area of passion. No matter where we practice, nursing will always be, “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations” (Epstein & Turner, 2015).
My philosophy of nursing is providing nonjudgmental holistic care to a diverse population with the utmost respect. Not everyone will hold our same values and beliefs, but we must remain true to ourselves while maintaining respect to others. I will always try my best to leave my patients and their family feeling better than when I first met them. Through evidence based practice and higher education, I would like to improve the quality of care to those who are at a disadvantage in health care. “Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken” (Myrtle Aydelotte).
References
AZ Quotes. Retrieved from http://www.azquotes.com/quote/671655
Epstein, B. & Turner, M. (2015). The nursing code of ethics: Its value, its history. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-20-2015/No2-May-2015/The-Nursing-Code-of-Ethics-Its-Value-Its-History.html#ANA10
