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Personal nursing philosophy (as a Maternal-Newborn Nurse) is a one paragraph summary of your personal philosophy of nursing by reflectively writing. This requires thinking about an event or idea and analyzing it's meaning to nursing practice. This is an opportunity to articulate personal values and believes about professional practice and the role as a registered nurse.
4. Note: Identify Personal beliefs and values (as a Maternal-Newborn Nurse) related to the four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm (listed below). Include a specific and detailed clinical example for each of the nursing metaparadigms. Clearly link values and beliefs to a behavioral example.
5. Note: Use the concluding paragraph to reflect on what you have discovered about yourself and what changes you plan to make in your practice as a result of the course.
Nursing Metaparadigms (as a Maternal-Newborn Nurse)
1. Nursing (i.e., nursing actions)
What is your definition of nursing?
Is the metaparadigm concept nursing an art, a science, or both? Is it a process or a product (set of tasks)?
What is nursing mainly (e.g., caring, therapeutic healing, building relationships)?
What is the role reflected in nursing (e.g., doing for, being with [being present with], working with)?
There does ethics fit in? Who or what is the object of nursing's concern?
Give a specific clinical example.
2. Health
What is your definition of health (e.g., includes absence of disease, ability to perform social roles)?
Is health on a continuum? Can clients have a chronic illness and still be termed healthy in your definition of health? What if the client's view of health and your view of health are different?
Give a specific clinical example
3. Person
What is your definition of person (e.g., set of behavioral systems, bio-psychosocial and spiritual being)?
Who is the person being nursed (e.g., client, family, community)?
Give a specific clinical example
4. Environment
Are there different components to environment (e.g., emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, mainly physical)? Is environment separate from person? What is the nurse's role in terms of environment?
Are there internal and external environments, or is what is internal to a person part of the person?
Give a specific clinical example