Task: Personal Philosophy of Nursing

The purpose of this paper is to define, describe and explain your thoughts, feelings and beliefs about the four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm and their interrelationship to one another as they guide your current nursing practice.

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There are no right or wrong thoughts, feelings or beliefs; these represent your own philosophical beliefs. If your current philosophy includes any particular nursing or other theory (ies), identify these. The final paper is to be typed according to APA format and no more than 5 pages in length. The paper should include a title page and reference list, however, these pages are not to be included in the final count.

Evaluation criteria are as follows:

Criteria for Personal Philosophy of Nursing Paper:

Introduction – identifies purpose of the paper. ( 5 points)
Brief description of the factors influencing the development of the personal nursing philosophy. (5 points)
Define, describe and explain your personal thoughts, feelings and beliefs about the concepts of the nursing metaparadigm: ( 25 points)

a. Person/client

b. Environment

c. Health

d. Nursing

e. Summarized interrelationship of the concept

4. Identification and brief description of the nursing theory found to be the most compatible with the student’s personal nursing philosophy. (25 points)

5. Provided explanation, with documentation, that demonstrated compatibility of personal philosophy with the nursing theory identified in #4 according to: (25 points)

a. Person/client

b. Environment

c. Health

d. Nursing

e. Summarized interrelationship of concepts

6. Summary and conclusion (5 points)

7. Organization, documentation, references followed APA format. (10 points)

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor. Task: Personal Philosophy of Nursing

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument. Task: Personal Philosophy of Nursing