Metaparadigm In Nursing: My Personal Philosophy Of Nursing

The intention of this paper is to reflect on my personal philosophy of nursing using the concepts of nursing metaparadigm. When I was a student nurse, my philosophy was solely on patients’ care. However, this perspective on nursing transformed overtime secondary to nursing education and clinical experience. Nursing philosophy refers as “a statement of fundamental and universal assumptions, beliefs ad principles about the nature of knowledge and thought and about the nature of the entities represented in the metaparadigm” (McEwen, & Wills, p.10). My personal nursing philosophies include provision of safe and quality nursing care, maintaining patients’ health, managing resources and environment as well as career advancement. In order to
In addition, there are different variations in many nursing theorists view of environment. A comparative analysis of nursing theories by Hanucharumkul (1989), shows that nursing theories perspectives of environment are unrelated. Orem approached environment in term of development. She sees environment as a set of circumstances that inspire person to grow through proper goals setting. She seems to refer to the external surroundings of a person which comprises of physical and psychological features. Using anthropological approach, Leninger (2008) refers environmental context “ to the totality of an event, situation, or particular, experiences that gives meaning to people’s expressions, interpretations, and social interactions within particular physical, ecological, spiritual, sociopolitical, technologic factors in cultural settings” (Pg. 7). In my mental health practice, these perspectives on environment guide and provide me with ways to interpret client conditions as well as its’ influence on their health behaviors and