PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING PAPER:
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. 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:
Rubric Criteria for Personal Philosophy of Nursing Paper:
1. Introduction – identifies purpose of the paper.
5%
2. Brief description of the factors influencing the development of the personal nursing philosophy toward meeting your career goals. 5%
3. Define, describe and explain your personal thoughts, feelings and beliefs about the concepts of the nursing metaparadigm
a. Person/client
b. Environment
c. Health
d. Nursing
e. Summarized interrelationship of the concepts 25%
4. Identification and brief description of the nursing theory (ies) found to be the most compatible with the student’s personal nursing philosophy 25%
5. Provided explanation, with documentation, that demonstrated compatibility of
personal philosophy with the nursing theory(ies) identified in #4 according to:
a. Person/client
b. Environment
c. Health
d. Nursing
e. Summarized interrelationship of concepts 25%
6. Summary and conclusion 5%
7. Organization, documentation, references followed APA format. 10%
Total 100%