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Michelle Kardohely
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When I entered the nursing profession 20 years ago, armed with theoretical and scientific
knowledge, I had not yet established a true nursing philosophy. Even now, as I contemplate how
to articulate my nursing philosophy, I reflect upon my daily interactions with patients and
integration of knowledge, experience, and moral virtue. The foundation of nursing practice, the
health, and nursing (McEwen & Wills, 2014). I will share my personal nursing philosophy
patients and families. Patients, irrespective of their place on the health-illness continuum, require
care beyond the physiological state. The spiritual, emotional, and sociocultural facets of a patient
help patients navigate and adapt to the environment, as well as provide coping mechanisms to
When I think of the relationship between health and nursing philosophy, I draw upon my
experiences caring for critically ill cardiac patients. Health is a dynamic state on the health-
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illness continuum. Health conveys human experiences of wellness or illness and may occur in
the presence or absence of disease or injury (American Nurses Association (ANA), 2010a).
Health is the patients holistic view of himself or herself. Nursing is not just listening to the
patients wishes to be a caring and compassionate patient advocate. An advocate understands the
meaning of those wishes. I have felt the painful emotions experienced by dying patients and their
families and I have felt the encompassing peace that followed a dignified death.
The ANA defines nursing as 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 (ANA, 2010b, p. 1). Nurses must maintain high standards of care in order to
provide a safe environment, foster empowerment, and facilitate patient healing that is reflective
of holistic, compassionate, and ethical care. Nurses are accountable for maintaining a
acquisition, research utilization through evidence-based practices, collaboration with health care
quality improvement. I uphold this commitment by working in a Magnet institution with values
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 -Myrtle
Aydelotte
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References
American Nursing Association. (2010a). Guide to the code of ethics for nurses. Silver Spring,
MD: Nursebooks.org
American Nursing Association. (2010b). Nursing scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.).
McEwen, M., Wills, E. (2014). Theoretical basis for nursing (4th ed). (pp. 24-25). Philadelphia:
http://www.nursingschools.net/blog/2010/06/100-entertaining-inspiring-quotes-for-
nurses/