Nursing and Organizational Values

There are many different roles and values within the profession of nursing. Each of these roles and values has a different job description and purpose, yet they all contain one common link. The link that connects the different roles in the nursing profession is the fact that they each rely on nursing research, theories, and evidence based practice to provide safe, quality care to patients. Without nursing research, theories, and evidence based practice, nursing care would be based on trial and error methods that often cause more harm than good to the patient.

The State of Tennessee Board of Nursing’s Rules and Regulations of Registered Nurses, Rule # 1000-01-.13-1r states that unprofessional conduct is defined in part by "failing to take appropriate action in safeguarding the patient from incompetent health care practices" (State of Tennessee, 2011). There are a number of arguments in this case study that incompetent health care practices are being performed, from the decision to place a patient on a ventilator for an oxygen saturation of 88%, circumventing the patient’s written and verbal advanced directives, utilizing an unauthorized family member to get consent for

For as long as I can remember, I have been overwhelmed with a desire to care for those in need, and I feel this ultimately led me to the career choice of nursing. I chose nursing as my profession because I truly believe that the desire to help people through nursing is a calling, and I feel drawn toward helping those in need. Nursing is an honorable career, and should not be treated as just a job to earn a paycheck. My mission is to proudly provide nonjudgmental care to those in need regardless of race, spiritual beliefs, lifestyle choices, financial status, or disability. Before entering to the profession of nursing, it is important to explore my personal values and principles that will guide my nursing practice. My philosophy is that nurses have a responsibility to the public to provide safe, holistic, patient-centered care. This paper will explore the values I feel are necessary in relating to patients as well as health professionals, my personal work culture, and society as a whole.

Nursing is a valued profession that serves to protect, promote, and optimized the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, communities, and populations through care, regardless of age, race, sex, diagnosis, financial stability, and abilities or disabilities. As time progressed, nursing has been regarded as a human science, in which it not only requires one to be knowledgeable and skilful in the field of health care, but they must also possess a strong desire and passion to care and help patients who are in their most vulnerable states. The primary goal of nursing is empowerment of patient through advocacy, health promotion and education, along with direct care.

Sample: A convenience sample of 971 nursing students enrolled from first, second, third and Fourth year at Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Shebin AL Khoum, Menoufia Governorate, Egypt.

Nursing is the art of incorporating trust, compassion, and caring for the client, as well as science of the pursuit of knowledge, all

This paper will outline the health care service of educating nurses at the bachelor, masters and doctorate level education at a private catholic university in the Pacific Northwest. The primary aim of the university is to provide high quality education to prepare students for success in their chosen career and in life. The university provided small class sizes to allow personal connection between students and professors (Catholic Profile, 2017).

But the ANA defines nursing as “Nursing is 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.” (American Nursing Association, 2015). Since my first nursing class, I learned the premise of nursing being an art and a science, and can appreciate this aspect since it links up with my personal beliefs. DeLaune & Ladner, (2011) describe nursing as “an art and a science by which people are assisted in learning to care for themselves whenever possible and cared for by others when they are unable to meet their own needs.”

The science of nursing is not just about performing tasks such as catheter insertion or medication administration. It encompasses the ability of the nurse to think critically and to provide evidence-based interventions (Palos, 2014). It also includes the capability of the nurse to apply nursing theories and frameworks into practice (Parse, 2015). On the other hand, Florence Nightingale described nursing as the “finest of Fine Arts” (as cited in Criss, 2011, para. 1).

8 articles, and altruism and precise care and making appropriate relationships were indicated in 6 articles, respectively.

Nursing is the “purpose of promotion and maintaining life, health, and well-being” (Alligood & Tomey, 2010, p. 268). As a nurse you have deliberate actions that need to be performed with the intention of healing or performing that action to care for an individual. When acting with that deliberate action you are acting as an agent for that person or family utilizing nursing science which is made of “models of practice, standards of practice, and technologies” (Alligood & Tomey, 2010, p. 268).

I am definitely for value-based nursing. Value-based nursing puts the patient first. Although some people think it is all about the money, it is actually all about the patients! If nurses are giving high quality care as well as being cost effective by not wasting supplies, there will be more room in the budget for new supplies, and possibly more nurses. If nurses are frivolous with supplies and using things that are not needed, there will be less money in the budget. This benefits patients because they will not have to pay for unnecessary items, there will be better equipment on the unit to provide their care. Nursing care is one of the largest expenses in the health care system (Welton & Ellen, 2015). It is very

All nurses have similar rigorous educational backgrounds, but that does not mean that they all have the same method of provide nursing care. Rather each person’s individual perspective and philosophy of nursing is unique to his or hers own values, culture, religion and ethnicity. Throughout this paper I will discuss what I believe nursing is and my philosophy of providing care. Nursing is a world full of complexity whose future lies within human compassion, and this paper will discuss the importance of that. My personal philosophy of nursing is viewed in an abstract perspective, where I believe nursing is a balance between science and art. With nurses as painters, I will discuss how we interact with our canvas, the environment. Afterwards, I will take you to discover the importance of keeping our artistic supply, health, in equilibrium to provide care to others. But, every artist needs inspiration, so I will discuss how people stand as our growing ground. Once the basics of the painter, the canvas, the artistic supplies, and inspiration have been brought to the spotlight I will discuss how education contributes to patient advocacy. The last aspect of my personal philosophy of nursing will look at how nurses administer accountable, skillful, and responsible care and how we contribute to research.

Nursing is defined and referred to as both an art and a science through theory and research in nursing practice. Although the science of nursing is grounded on the acquirement of knowledge and skills, along with theoretical understanding of nursing, but it is also described as ‘an experience lived between human beings’.

Professional values should serve as the basis of a nurse’s ethical practice. The professional values are the foundation to the practice of nursing. According to Kubsch, Hansen, & Huyser-Eatwell (2008),”Professional values are standards for actions accepted by the practitioner and professional group that provide a framework influencing the behavior of the group” (p.375). They are, to me, a set of beliefs or principles which guide behaviors. The professional values include: altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice. I believe that they are interconnected; you cannot have one without the other. In thinking about professional values, I think of respect. This word sums them all up.