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Nursing Philosophy

As a clinical nurse manager for the acute rehab department and the department of psychiatry at my hospital whose theorist of choice is Virginia Henderson, I hold a complex of values and beliefs, as well as a code of ethics, concerning what nursing is and what my personal world view of nursing care looks like. Like Henderson, I see my function as a nurse as being to help patients recover just as they would if they had the physical strength to do so on their own and the requisite knowledge required to effect their recovery. This standard exerts a potent impact on what I can and cannot do from an ethical standpoint.

At the core of my values is a belief in maintaining a culture of life rather than the culture of death that is becoming more prevalent in American society. American culture is becoming increasingly tolerant of euthanasia, whether of pets or of people, and the original charter in countries that have legalized euthanasia-to euthanize only those that desired to die because of terminal illness-has been enlarged alarmingly since then to include patients that are not terminal and merely depressed or even patients that have not expressed a will to die but who are deemed to need euthanasia by their physicians. This is something that I am vehemently opposed to, and while many of these ideas have infiltrated American medical thinking, I contend that patients must be served as though every one of them wants to live. Like Henderson, I see my role as life-giver. Only when the patient cannot be helped further and is dying on his own is it my duty to assist him in achieving a peaceful death by providing comfort and reassurance.

I value each individual patient, and I value human life, so everything that I do as a nurse reflects this dual focus. In my world view of nursing, every patient is an opportunity to impart more life and better life, to enable people to live longer and feel better. It is this abi

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