Posted: June 5th, 2015

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Assignment 2: Concept Synthesis Paper on Personal Nursing Philosophy

Your Concept Synthesis Paper is due this week. By Tuesday, June 9, 2015, submit your scholarly paper, in which you have identified, described, researched and applied the concepts that underlie your personal philosophy for professional nursing practice.

Collate the work that you have done so far from Weeks 1–3, and submit your paper in the prescribed format to the W3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Your paper should include:
•Nursing Autobiography: A brief (1 page) discussion of your background in nursing.
•The Four Metaparadigms: Identification, discussion, and documentation from the literature of your perspective on the basic four metaparadigms/concepts of patient, nurse, health, and environment.
•Two Practice-Specific Concepts: Identification, discussion, and documentation from the literature of your perspective on at least two concepts specific to your own practice.
•List of Propositions: A numbered list of at least five propositions or assumption statements that clearly connect the concepts described.

Your paper should integrate these discrete elements and reflect your personal nursing philosophy.

The paper should be thoroughly researched and well documented, with relevant material from the nursing theorists presented incorporated into the paper. The current APA Manual is to be used throughout the paper. Sources should focus on references from nursing theory but may also include conceptual and theoretical material from other professional domains. The paper, excluding references or appendices, is to be limited to 6-10 pages. Writing should be succinct and well organized, as it is impossible for the facilitator to evaluate form and content separately.

Your philosophy/framework is to be given a title that is appropriate to its content and emphasis.

Grading Criteria:
Maximum Points

Nursing Autobiography

The nursing autobiography included personal experiences in the field of nursing.
8

Provided an account of the current professional role of the student.
8

Included factors that guided decision making.
8

Quality of Essay

Enlisted the four metaparadigms.
8

The essay included a definition of the four metaparadigms of nursing with reference to professional practice.
8

The essay mentioned how the metapardigms were employed in nursing practice.
8

The essay enlisted two practice-specific concepts.
8

The essay included a numbered list of at least 5 propositions or assumptions.
8

The assumptions illustrated the concepts in a manner, which further clarified the students’ use of the conceptual material.
8

The essay demonstrated consistency between concepts and assumptions.
8

The concepts were connected and integrated to reveal a meaningful sequence.
8

The essay demonstrated clarification and organization of the students’ professional foundation.
8

The essay demonstrated evidence of critical thinking in analysis and response.
8

The essay demonstrated understanding and integration of lecture material, reading assignments, and sources consulted.
8

Essay was well written, well organized, and articulate.
8

Presentation Criteria

The paper clearly demonstrated understanding of theoretical principles (i.e., concept development, definitions, etc.)
5

The paper revealed clarity, organization, and articulation of ideas.
5

The paper showed that ideas were well documented.
5

The paper revealed the breadth of research effort.
5

Written responses are free of grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors. Citations and references are included and written in the correct APA Style.
10

Total
150

I sent my Autobiography that you have to include.

Nursing is very different from other types of occupations. First, it is a calling that each nurse must be ready to serve without a need for being pushed by seniors or management in a healthcare facility. The article shows that nurses must have a positive attitude towards their jobs. Personally, nursing is something I love, and which I have practiced on different levels. From my travels, I have also been interested in knowing how nurses in different regions operate, and the challenges they face in their day to day activities (Stadlbauer & Steiner, 2013). Nurses want to have autonomy in their duties because they have personal attachments with their patients. According to the journal article, Primary nursing in Intensive Care Unit: Measuring Nurses’ Attitudes, nurses believe that the autonomy improves not only patient satisfaction, but also primary nursing gives a new role of nursing to the professional which is different from the traditional setting and roles assigned to nurses traditionally (Zeta, Siamagka, Badeski, & Ablianiti, 2010).
On a personal level, it is important to understand that a nurse has the patient as the primary concern, and the intention of any nurse is to show an improvement in health of any patient that he or she handles. It is, therefore, noteworthy to understand that a nurse, besides being knowledgeable, especially in the ICU, must also possess a positive attitude towards primary care of patients since it lays the foundation on the benefits that the patient is expected to have later in treatment and management of their condition (Zeta, Siamagka, Badeski, & Ablianiti, 2010). As a nurse, my philosophy is that nurses should be left to have their autonomy in the management of patients as too much bureaucracy in nursing means that some patients will be at the mercy of decisions made by personnel who are not in direct contact with the patient unlike when the nurse has autonomy so that decisions are based on how well the nurse understands the needs of the patient.
Identification of the needs of patients is the initial activity that any nurse must take, and documenting of these needs is the second so that even when this nurse is not on duty, other nurses who manage the patient can know what that patient needs and hence formulate a plan to manage the patient as well as can be possible. It should be borne in mind that the intension is to improve quality of life for the patients.