Assignment: Developing a Nursing Philosophy

Assignment: Developing a Nursing Philosophy

Assignment: Developing a Nursing Philosophy

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WEEK 4 – ASSIGNMENT

Overview

Hood (2014) discuss how nurses need to examine and answer questions that address primary aspects of nursing when developing a nursing philosophy. In this assignment, you will answer some of these questions as a start to developing your own personal philosophy of nursing.

NOTE:

Make sure and use the assignment rubric to guide your work.

Provides clear comprehensive discussion of each element.
APA citations have no errors, or minimal (italics, etc.) error noted.
Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Purpose: To write a beginning philosophy of nursing that reflects your beliefs and values.

Please be thoughtful and thorough as you complete this assignment. Each section should have at least 3-4 complete sentences.

Write your personal philosophy of nursing in the spaces provided below. The gray fields will expand as you type.
1.I chose nursing as my profession because nursing is ________________________.

2.I believe that the core of nursing is _________________________________.

3.I believe that the focus of nursing is ___________________________.

4.My vision for myself as a nurse is that I will ______________________________.

To live out my philosophy of nursing, every day I must remember this about:
1.My patients: ______________________________.

2.My patients’ families: _________________________________.

3.My fellow health care professionals: _________________________.

4.My own health: ___________________________________.

(Black, 2014, p. 263).

Black, B. P. (2013). Professional nursing, concepts and challenges (7th ed.). Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 9781455702701

Hood, L. J. (2014). Leddy & Pepper’s conceptual bases of professional nursing (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolter’s Kluwer.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.