My personal, cultural, and spiritual values
My worldview and philosophy of nursing are positively impacted by my personal, cultural, and spiritual values. My values are integrity, autonomy, altruism, and human dignity. The value of integrity is crucial in my nursing practice because it helps me to be honest in my profession and adhere to nursing standards and code of ethics. Adopting autonomy is crucial in shaping my nursing profession because personal value goes a long way in enabling me to understand and apply the right to self-determination. Nurses who are self-determined offer better care to patients than nurses without autonomy (Bevington, 2004). My value of integrity enables me to do good to patients, family members, and colleagues. Particularly, patients feel better if they realize that nursing care professionals show them concern. Faith is the best spiritual value that enables me to offer quality care to patients. Whenever I provide nursing care to patients, I have faith that they would improve their health. I communicate the faith I have to them, and this reduces their time of healing. By adopting the social justice value, I believe that all persons in the healthcare industry should be treated equally have equal chances to access healthcare.
Definition of values, morals, and ethics in nursing practice
Values in nursing practice can be defined as a collection of beliefs that nurses have about the worth of an idea or other persons (Bevington, 2004). Nursing values are essential in the nursing profession because they impact nurses as they make critical ethical decisions. Morals in nursing practice are defined as decisions and actions that are good and acceptable in nursing practice. If a nurse makes a decision that is not right and acceptable, then that would be termed as being professionally immoral. Ethics in nursing practice is defined as a set of principles that guide nurses to act within healthcare organizations. Code of ethics contains rules that spell out the proper ways of conduct and any disciplinary measures for nurses who act against the code of ethics. Moral and ethical dilemmas negatively impact nurses in their endeavors to provide quality healthcare to patients (Molewijk, Abma, Stolper, & Widdershoven, 2008). My philosophy and values occasionally conflict with the interests of patients. Truth-telling versus deception is the most common type of ethical dilemma I face in the nursing profession. My personal view about ethical dilemmas in nursing is that nurses should act to protect the welfare of their patients. My personal views help me to have the right behavior in the nursing profession and make the right decisions aimed to offer quality nursing care to patients.
My nursing ethic passion
I am in the nursing profession because I have always had a caring and compassionate heart that aims to make patients feel better. I have always had the love of nursing that motivates me to heal, support, comfort, and advocate for my patients.
Motivation
First, my best motivation comes from my patients mainly because they are the reason why I am in the nursing profession. Second, my family is a great source of motivation and my family members have always given me a reason to act professionally in the healthcare industry. Third, I motivate myself by doing the right job aimed to help patients improve their health status.
Inspiration
I am greatly inspired by having faith in whatever I do as I endeavor to make patients recover and be comfortable. I am also inspired by my passion for nursing.
Loyalty
Since the beginning of my nursing profession, I have always believed that I have a calling to serve everyone, including my patients, co-workers, and my family. As long as anyone needs help that I can provide, then I must assist. I can utilize the knowledge obtained through schooling and job experience to assist various people without any form of discrimination.
References
Bevington, L. K. (2004). Being Human: Readings From the President’s Council on Bioethics. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 292(13), 1618-1619.
Molewijk, A. C., Abma, T., Stolper, M., & Widdershoven, G. (2008). Teaching ethics in the clinic. The theory and practice of moral case deliberation. Journal of Medical Ethics, 34(2), 120-124.