My Personal Nursing Philosophy

Hi. My name is Eva Lower, and I'm going to be talking a little bit about me. My journey.

Why I am who I am,

my nursing philosophy,

my nursing contribution and where I see myself in the future.

I really wanted to use the sailboat theme to symbolize my journey of the sea,

symbolizing my life, always being unexpected, never knowing what's to come,

but learning to just sales instead of trying to control the wind.

Sure.

Mm.

So I was born here in Colorado, on Fort Carson.

I grew up an army brat,

which meant I moved everywhere and didn't stay in one place too long.

I always wanted to adopt

two

the new environments that I was in and learn to

adjust my sales where the unexpected winds would take me.

I lived in Germany most of my life, nine years, to be exact.

It's quickly become my home and really shaped part of who I am.

I also lived in a little country called Estonia,

which I didn't even think existed before I lived there, but they actually

fun fact.

They created

Skype,

so that's pretty cool.

My family,

though both my mom and dad are from Minnesota and

my siblings and I loved visiting there when we were

in Europe, and we absolutely adored the target.

We thought it was the coolest thing ever and that America was just so amazing.

Um,

and go Vikings.

Okay,

so, a little bit about my family. I was the only girl in a family with four brothers.

Um, I am engaged to in middle school, sweetheart, which is awesome.

He's really cool. Um, I have a dog named Luna. She's at the bottom right of the screen.

And, um,

I grew up an army brat. So my dad was in the army, and he is currently a colonel.

Mhm.

Yeah.

So why did I choose nursing?

Um, two reasons. Basically

first I knew growing up, I wanted to pursue a career in the military, but I didn't know

just yet that it would be as a nurse.

Uh, I'm in currently a cadet in the ROTC program here at U C C E s.

Um, you can see in that

far right that

me and my fiance are in it together.

So

I'm aspiring, I guess, to be

in the Army Nurse Corps.

I do not know

exactly

where it will take me. But as far as I know, that's where I want to be

as of now.

So one of the biggest reasons I became a nurse or I'm becoming a nurse, um,

was when I met my brother

Henry.

Um, he was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate.

Um, if you don't know what that is, um, it's basically a birth condition.

Um, as you can see in the top left that effects?

Yeah.

Your lips

and palate.

Yeah,

It happens about one in every six

1600 babies.

Um, it really just

seeing him go through surgery and seeing him,

um,

endure all that as a little kid really

piqued my interest in nursing and more specifically,

preoperative patient care and pediatric nursing.

Yeah.

Okay.

So my core values are family integrity, adaptability, awareness and discipline.

Family was always the one consistency I had in my life while moving every 2-3 years,

so it quickly became a core value for me.

Um, as we know, integrity is one of the most important values.

As a nurse, um, I try to implement it in every aspect of my life and

having to adapt to different environments

and moving all the time learning to make new friends and

speak different languages, and

it really became

adaptability really became a core value. For me,

awareness is one of the best core values you can adopt.

Um, it means paying attention to yourself, others the world around you,

emotions and situations.

And so that was one of the biggest ones for me.

The biggest one, however,

is discipline because it is the focused attitude of self control

that drives the systematic and consistent application

of blood sweat tears to get results.

Um,

it is a core value of mine because it is the epitome

of enduring intrinsic motivation that overcomes

consistent adversity that we all face.

So I wanted to come up with my own personal nursing philosophy.

But while researching and trying to figure out

what I truly thought, I came across Virginia's Virginia Henderson's need theory.

It states that I believe that the function

the nurse performs is primarily an independent one,

that of acting for the patient when he lacks knowledge, physical,

strange strength or the will to act for himself as he

would ordinarily act in health or in carrying out prescribed therapy.

This function is seen as complex and creative

as offering unlimited opportunity to apply the physical,

biological and social sciences

and the development of skills based on them.

Mhm.

So before I get into the domains, I believe that

what this has to do with me is all my core values.

Adaptability, awareness, discipline.

Yeah,

I see that tie into this theory. And, um, I agree with all the four domains

person,

Virginia

says At the most basic level, patients are individuals with bile.

Physio social needs who seek nursing care, however,

are not limited to illness care.

She explains that the patient's mind and body are interdependent and inseparable,

And there are one entity

and individuals achieve wholeness by maintaining

their physiological and emotional balance.

Mhm.

The health aspect,

she believes, is defined as

balance in all realms of human life.

Uh huh

is associated with independence or capacity to

carry out activities without any assistance.

She had 14 components of

She calls it the 14 components of her need theory.

Um, basically, just all these activities that

you need to carry out

the balance of your life.

For Henderson,

quality health is difficult because it can be impacted by numerous factors.

Age, cultural background, emotional balance, etcetera,

mhm.

The maintenance of environment

Beneficial to health is included as part of

the 14th moments of Henderson's need theory.

She believes that the nurse has a responsibility to perform to

provide an environment in which the patient can perform activity unaided.

She basically believes we want to give nursing care and

make sure that the patient is independent

and can perform activities on their own before

they leave.

So

the biggest element she tried to touch on was a nurse, she says.

And

all that.

She said she believes that the nurse has distinct function

and role to assist the patient and address their needs

While the nurses to assist patients who are incapable of

satisfying at least one of the 14 basic needs.

This care is temporary,

as the nurses are to make the patient independent soon as possible.

Um, one of the quotes

that I thought was really interesting.

That, she said,

was to get inside the patient's skin and supplement

his strength will or knowledge according to his needs.

Um, that's the epitome of her theory.

I also have two other quotes that I think, really

tie in

everything that she has to say about

what she believes. Her nursing philosophy is

one of them being the unique function of the nurses to assist the individual sick

or well in the performance of those

activities contributing to health or its recovery.

That he would perform unaided if he had necessary strength, will and knowledge.

And to do

this in such a way to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.

Yeah,

the other one being the nurse

does for others what they would do for themselves if they had the strength,

the will and the knowledge.

But I go on to say that the nurse makes this

patient independent of him or her as soon as possible.

Basically, just

everything is temporary. She believes in the care.

She wants it to be the patient to be as independent as possible before

as soon as possible.

Mhm.

So

as a nurse, I really want to contribute

to the future

more than anything of nursing and health care.

Um, I want to make differences in people's lives.

Um,

I want to devote myself to the profession night and day and

provide patient care with a holistic approach of the mind and body,

embodying the unique function of nurses that Henderson identifies as being the

consciousness of the unconscious.

The love life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee,

the eyes of the newly blind,

a means of locomotion for the infant

knowledge and confidence of the young

mother,

The mouthpiece for those two weeks or withdrawn to speak.

I really enjoy that quote by her,

Thank you

and my future,

Um, in the nursing corps

in the Army, I hope five years from now that's where I'll be, Um,

which means I have no clue where in the world I'm

going to be because the Army is going to station me

wherever they choose.

Um,

hopefully,

I'll be going back to school so I can achieve a further goal peri operative, nursing.

And most importantly, I want a family of my own. So I want

hopefully I have that fabulous from now.

So to tie in kind of my theme of this presentation,

we cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails by Thomas Benson,

and this is my reference,

and that is it. Thank you for

listening and

being part of

my nursing journey

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