Philosophy of Nursing
1. Address what your philosophy of nursing (beliefs about the meta-paradigm: person, environment, health, and nursing)is, and identifying the philosophical influences.
2. Describe how those philosophical foundations influence your nursing practice and provide two specific examples.
3. Discuss how positivism and post-positivism influence the different approaches (qualitative and quantitative) to nursing science (research methods) and nursing practice.
**Please note that references must be 5 years old or less and peer-reviewed articles. No URL link please. Need to be scholarly articles.
**Paper must be written in APA 6th edition format please. This is a doctoral level course, writings must reflect such level.
Nursing is such a broad field that needs much expertise. This is because of all that has to be done to make sure the patients are in a better state than they were when being brought to the health care center. A nurse is a professional who should be devoted to the work that he is doing so that he can offer the best to those who needs his services. It is much more of a calling than a career because a nurse should be devoted to serve and the motivation in such a field should be intrinsic motivation, (Risjord, 2011). A nurse should deliver the services without much follow up because he is supposed to save lives as well as make the patient feel the care for easier recovery. As a nurse, a closer relationship should develop with the patients than the doctor because the nurse understands the patient more than the doctor does. This determines the chances of a patient recovering or exposure to risks that would lead to the death of the patient. Therefore, a nurse should make sure that the patients are given the first priority and other things should come after. Sacrifice is the main reason why a person finds himself in this calling………………………………………………
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