PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY
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. Select a nursing theory or theories that closely identifies with your philosophy.The similarity index should not be more than 10-15%. References should be within 10 years. Evaluation criteria are as follows:
1. Introduction – identifies purpose of the paper.
2. Describe the personal factors influencing the development of your personal nursing philosophy.
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
4. Identification and overview of the nursing theory (ies) found to be the most compatible with the student’s personal nursing philosophy. Include their definitions of the paradigm:
a. Person/client
b. Environment
c. Health
d. Nursing
5. Provide an explanation with examples that demonstrates the compatibility of personal philosophy with the nursing theory(ies) identified in #4. (Must include 2 peer reviewed journals minimum).
6. Summary and conclusion-must include the purpose of the paper.
7. Organization, grammar, APA (7th Ed) format.
