Write an 800-1,000 word essay on your personal worldview.
Write an 800-1,000 word essay on your personal worldview.
To provide safe and optimal care, nurses should understand how health needs vary across populations. They also need some guiding principles based on what the profession dictates or philosophies developed as one becomes more experienced in the profession. Worldviews affect how nurses approach health care every day. This paper explains my worldview as an advanced nurse educator and assesses how it affects my future practice and role alongside cultural and .
Personal Worldview
As a Christian, my worldview is to love, help, and take care of the sick and needy. Besides that, I respect all people regardless of their race or cultural background. I view the patient as a person in need of help and not as a customer that pays for services. Since patients’ needs should be understood in detail, I believe in practice and nurse-patient relationship that respects cultural and . Doing so ensures that patients are guaranteed holistic care as they deserve.
My Worldview, Cultural and Spiritual Competence, and Future Practice
As an advanced nurse educator, my worldview puts me in a better position to establish lasting relationships with the people I will be working with and serving. Such interprofessional relationships are possible since my guiding principles are love, health-related assistance, and care. Cultural competence involves being aware of own worldview and embracing personal differences (Purnell & Fenkl, 2019; Swihart & Martin, 2020). Since I respect all people regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, my cultural competence will enable me to interact and communicate effectively with others as I execute my role as an advanced nurse educator. Understanding clients’ diversity and respecting it helps health care providers to customize health assistance in a way that responds to patients’ specific needs. On the other hand, spiritual competence is a form of cultural competence but centered on spirituality and religion (Ebrahimi et al., 2017). Since I highly regard other people’s religious beliefs, I look forward to a practice where I will be serving people and training nurses without being inhibited by their individually constructed worldviews to achieve the desired quality.
In conclusion, nurses are better positioned to provide safe and high-quality care to diverse populations when they address the populations’ specific needs. Such expertise level is possible when nurses are culturally and spiritually competent. As an advanced nurse educator, I believe in a practice centered on care, love, and respect for others’ differences. Doing so enables me to interact smoothly with those I serve, and I expect it to dominate my future practice and role.
References
Ebrahimi, H., Areshtanab, H. N., Jafarabadi, M. A., & Khanmiri, S. G. (2017). Health care providers’ perception of their competence in providing spiritual care for patients. Indian journal of palliative care, 23(1), 57–61. https://doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.197957
Purnell, L. D., & Fenkl, E. A. (2019). Handbook for culturally competent care. Springer.
Swihart, D. L., & Martin, R. L. (2020). Cultural religious competence in clinical practice. StatPearls. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493216/