nursing philosophy

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Philosophy of Nursing

Arisbel Delgado

West Coast University

Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice

Dr. Kendrick

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Philosophy of Nursing

Introduction

Nursing management is crucial for the wellbeing of human beings since it allows them to

receive proper healthcare at all times. The philosophy of nursing involves beliefs, ethics, and

values that promote productive patient outcomes at all times based on their needs. There is a

strong requirement for nurses to get motivated to handle healthcare requirements since this offers

an effective basis of generating productive patient outcomes. It is imperative for all nurses to

understand how the four metaparadigms of nursing promote better health outcomes. Nurses can

form suitable perspectives about their professional environments in methods that define holistic

management of patient care.

The Four Metaparadigm of Nursing

Improvement of patient outcomes is possible using these metaparadigms of nursing: nursing,

environment, person, and health (Mcewen & Wills, 2017).

 Nursing is broad concepts that involves a nurse who is required to always adopt

professionalism while handling patients. There is a strong requirement for nurses to

receive advanced training that improves their skills and knowledge of dealing with

patients.

 Environment is a metaparadigm component that deals with external and internal factors

of a patient. The component ensures patients get provided with resources that improve

their health outcomes at all times.

 Person is a component that ensures focus on a patient’s belief, culture, family,

background, and friends who influence their reception of healthcare.

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 Health is a component that ensures a patient receives treatment tailored to their needs

since the process requires a healthcare environment to et provided with suitable

resources.

My Additions and Deletions to the Metaparadigm

After assessment of the metaparadigms discusses above, I believe the fifth suitable

addition would be ethics. Ethics is crucial in nursing environment and should get studied

uniquely since it is a broad concept that promotes productive management of morality concepts

required of all nurses (Mcewen & Wills, 2017). Ethics is very imperative in a healthcare

environment since it assists all decision-making procedures to focus on patients’ outcomes. The

process of ensuring adherence to all obligations that nurses get provided with can get handled

using ethics management in nursing. The concept of ethics in nursing involves accountability,

beneficence, principles of justice, and beneficence that promote better patient outcomes (Gaines,

2021). In this regard, adding the concept of ethics to the four metaparadigms of nursing would

generate better health outcomes.

Conclusion

There is a strong possibility of promoting holistic care as all the concepts of the

metaparadigm of nursing get implemented. It is productive to handle effective patient care at all

times by studying their issues and generating valid solutions at all times. The process of

generating full treatment for patients is possible as they get focused as persons that require

healthcare. A healthcare department would then place nurses conversant with the exact patient

issue to be in-charge of them and handle required care management. Another productive method

of improving patient outcomes is by ensuring they constantly stay in a positive environment that

impacts on their mental ability to receive proper healthcare. It is important to involve this

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concept of the metaparadigm since it works cohesively with nurse’ expertise to promote full

patient treatment.

The metaparadigm of nursing works better as it constantly produce care tailored to

patients’ needs. This is possible using the health component which works collaboratively to

handle patient treatment and using nurses’ vast skills to suggest the best treatment technique. To

ensure all patient treatment methods are suitable the nursing component is the most crucial basis

for handling patient needs. In all these ways, patients will receive suitable care.

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References

Gaines, K. (2021). What is the Nursing Code of Ethics? Retrieved 29 October 2021 from

https://nurse.org/education/nursing-code-of-ethics/.

Mcewen M., & Wills E. M. (2017). Theoretical Basis for Nursing. [VitalSource Bookshelf].

Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781496351210/