Title: NUR 513 Discuss Worldview and Nursing Process Personal Statement<\/strong><\/h2>\nPersonal worldview forms an important part of a person\u2019s life as it represents the beliefs and assumptions that they have relative to the world around them. These notions are mostly influenced by the religious, spiritual and cultural environments that one interacts with throughout their life. As an individual therefore, I believe that there is a Supreme Being called God who created me to fulfill a specific purpose on earth. This belief is accentuated by the fact that I have a personal daily relationship with my God. I believe in God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. After I surrendered my life to Him through salvation by being born again, His spirit (Holy Spirit) now lives inside of me. The Holy Spirit who lives within me directs me, instructs me and renews my heart daily, which enables me to provide a compassionate and holistic care for my patients. I participate daily in reading and meditating in the word of God, in prayers on a daily basis before and after each shift as well as validated by the miracles that I have seen happen in my life and those of my patients. Indeed, I believe that God is the standard bearer of doing good deeds in this world and this should be reflected in one\u2019s life as regards caring for others since we are all created in His image. Moreover, the spirituality of a person also plays a significant role in formulating their worldview. <\/span><\/p>\nGiven that my worldview is powered by the belief that nursing as a profession is a calling for me and that God had fearfully and wonderfully made me for the sole purpose of caring for the sick and needy. I know that the Spirit that stays inside of man is greater than the one on the outside. As such, this allows me to love the Lord with all my strength and my heart so as to gain his favor in achieving my purpose. As mentioned in theological teachings, spirituality forms an important <\/span>cog<\/span> in the worldview that a Christian will hold in their lives. Lastly, a worldview will not be complete without the presence of a cultural element. My Christian community and friends that I was raised with have had a profound impact on my personal worldview. Since childhood, I have known nothing but the need to aid the sickly, the helpless and the less deserving in the community irrespective of their age, race, ethnicity or gender.\u00a0 That such a mixed society stayed together in harmony also influenced my belief that we should love one another as Christ loved the church since each one of us is created in the image of God, something that is important when one pursues a career in the profession of nursing.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0As a nurse, the cultural and spiritual competence demonstrative from the above elements influence my personal philosophy of practice and attitude towards patient care. The philosophy that I uphold is typified by empathetic, holistic and culturally sensitive care to my patients as well as their relatives. I also believe that nurses need to exercise <\/span>leadership, <\/span>advocacy, and <\/span>teachership<\/span> on behalf of patients so as to ensure high quality care that will improve patient outcomes as <\/span>posited <\/span>by Porter-O’Grady and Malloch (2016). Personally, I subscribe to the ideal that nursing encompasses compassion and attempting to comprehend patients at scientific, physical, and emotional levels. The exercise of such compassion is rooted in human care as the central tenet of nursing (DeNisco & Baker, 2016). In order to improve on this, I also feel that continuous life-long learning via formal education and experiences that better oneself and their nursing knowledge is paramount. In all these aspects, the religious, spiritual and cultural competences from my worldview play an important role.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMy personal philosophy of practice and approach to patient care are closely associated with Jean Watson\u2019s Theory of Nursing Care. As mentioned above, my personal nursing philosophy defines nursing using four meta-paradigms inclusive of person, nursing, environment, and health. This implies that nursing is steeped in the concept of a holistic approach to improving the quality of health of a patient (DeNisco & Baker, 2016). Watson\u2019s theory of human caring supports the extension of caring from patient-centered practices to human-to-human interactions. In his transpersonal conceptualization of the theory, he argues that caring should transcend ego to a greater spiritual caring influenced by caring moments (Sitzman & Watson, 2014; Clark, 2016). These caring moments should be holistic in nature hence my application of the same in practice. Additionally, whereas the centrality of human beings to the concept of care cannot be questioned, it becomes necessary to extend nursing care beyond the person to the environment where they live since they are part of a greater community. As such, separating patients from the environment is an impossibility due to the existing interrelatedness. Watson in his ten <\/span>carative<\/span> factors asks nurses to minister to rudimentary spiritual, emotional, and physical human needs as well as co-establishing a healing environment for the self and spiritual that respects human dignity (In Baird, 2016). Other tenets of Watson\u2019s theory such as embracing altruistic values as well as exercising loving kindness to others, trusting others and self, and deepening scientific methodologies in problem solving concerning caring decision-making (Brewer & Watson, 2015) find relevance in my personal nursing philosophy. Therefore, the application of Watson\u2019s Philosophy of Nursing has fundamentally reinforced my approach to the profession and caring attitude towards patients.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe application of Watson\u2019s theory of human caring is particularly relevant to home care nursing, which is the present author\u2019s area of practice. I have applied it numerous times but the one moment that is outstanding is when I was helping a family manage a child who had a chronic illness. The situation was not tenable at the beginning until when I decided to offer the essential human care to the child. During the application of this element of the caring Caritas, I attempted to satisfy the child\u2019s demand that were characteristic of childhood. To achieve this, I ensured that I gratified her spiritual, psycho-affective, social and biological needs as stipulated by Horton-Deutsch, Anderson, and Sigma Theta Tau International (2018). Therefore, I intervened in the situation in a manner that was balanced and humane; attempted to be present and be; for and with the child. The process succeeded when I listened to the child\u2019s family members actively and proffered genuine care via permanently practicing sharing and love (Disher, 2017; Pajnkihar, McKenna, \u0160tiglic, & Vrbnjak, 2017). This way, I managed to constitute a stable association of confidence and help with the child\u2019s family. At the end of it, the child\u2019s quality of life improved remarkably and she continued to enjoy life for an elongated period.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMy worldview and nursing approach to caring are fundamental in my future plans as a nurse educator. In my present role, I have realized that newly graduated nurses lack the compassionate and spiritual aspects of care. According to most of them, a majority of the teaching models that they utilize in colleges do not have integrated Caring Science. Therefore, when I become a nurse educator, I will ensure that my adopted teaching model for nurses integrates the <\/span>principles<\/span> of Watson\u2019s Science of Human Caring (Wiklund & Wagner, 2013). During this period, each nurse that will be under me will learn the currency of self-care via creation of specific practices so as to facilitate the espousal of the Caritas Process. Therefore, as I will be creating an enhanced caritas consciousness amongst nurses and nursing students, I will be guaranteeing a caring-healing environment for patients consistent with my personal worldview, philosophy of nursing and attitude towards patient caring.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n