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WORLDVIEW PHYLOSOPHY PAPER
Hedge V.
World view on Nursing
Nursing is an art and a science. As a nurse, one will deliver the care artfully with compassion, caring and a respect for each client’s dignity and personhood. As a science, nursing is based on a body of knowledge which is continuously changing with new discoveries and innovations. When the art of caring is integrated with the body of knowledge, the outcome what we get is a professional nurse.
Historically, nursing was a form of community service to protect and preserve the family, and the nurses delivered custodial care and depended on physicians or priests for direction. Gradually there was an expanded health care by establishing hospitals, asylums. The increased need for care due to epidemics, civil wars etc lead to the growth of nursing worldwide. The nursing care was not confined to any one area, but the scope of care expanded from hospital to asylums, poor houses, epidemics, civil wars, natural or man made disasters.
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing established her first nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration as mentioned in ‘Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not’ (Nightingale F, 1860). During her period, Florence Nightingale brought about major reforms in hygiene, sanitation and nursing practice. She viewed nursing as a search for truth in finding answers to health care questions or discovering and using God’s law of healing in nursing practice (Macrae, 1995).
The worldwide economic growth and globalization identified nursing as a profession rather an occupation. In the modern era, the nurse is not confined to a particular geographic area or a cultural group, instead she is at the forefront of global health. Immigration, air travel, internet,...