Nursing Philosophy

We all have a philosophy -- whether related to our professional engagements or otherwise. Indeed, it is on the basis of our individual philosophies that we form the conduct of life. A nursing philosophy in the words of Reed (as cited in Masters 2014, p. 100) is essentially "a statement of foundational and universal assumptions, beliefs, and principles about the nature of truth and knowledge (epistemology) and about the nature of the entities -- nursing practice and human being healing process-represented in the metaparadigm (ontology)."

Although I may not yet be a nurse, I do have a personal philosophy that I intend to practice and apply on entering the nursing field. In addition to representing my belief about this noble profession, my personal philosophy also allocates meaning to my future roles as a nurse and responsibility to patients. In seeking to highlight my personal philosophy, I will be...
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