Worldview and Nursing Process Personal Statement Final

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Worldview and Nursing Process Personal Statement James No Grand Canyon University NUR-513 Lisa Liggett, DNP, RN June 9, 2021 1

Introduction A worldview is a broad perspective on life and principles that influence an individual's values to help them understand their world and life in response to the challenges of life, and spirituality is a more profound belief in something greater than ourselves and a belief in life itself. As a health care provider, nurses often provide care to people of different cultures, religions, and spiritual views. Consequently, nurses need to recognize and respect the cultural differences of patients and the uniqueness of each spirituality in a patient's life as it plays a significant role in understanding and treating a patient's disease. Incorporating these beliefs and practices based on their culture into a patient's treatment plan is critical to the patient's overall well-being as it provides culturally competent care. This paper will examine the author's worldview and apply the relevant nursing theory to provide future implications in practice as an FNP. Personal Worldview My worldview is changing throughout my entire life through interactions with friends and family. Our family immigrated to the U.S. when I was 14 years old from Korea. I had to learn English as a second language while adapting to a whole new culture with new friends who never knew or understood any of my cultures. A few years later, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior and underwent another significant change in my life that formed a new worldview called Christianity. Since the establishment of the Christian worldview, I was able to see others through God's eyes, and God's heart toward them has begun to pour out on me. In the meantime, God soaked my heart with His tears for Iraq, which has been alienated from Western civilization. Luckily, I made two mission trips to Iraq, and as I saw the entire country suffering without adequate medical care, I realized that becoming a nurse was my God-given calling. 2

Despite all the hardships and pains I had to endure as a child, I became proficient in Asian and American culture through all the challenges of life. It also taught me to be open- minded to hearing and understanding other cultures and religions. Through the process, I became more tolerant of being exposed to other cultures and learned to dispel the misconception that what I have is the right way. In my role as an FNP, I certainly will treat patients of different cultures and religions. It will be imperative that an FNP listens to each patient's need and treat them properly as there are no specific interventions for a particular health issue that applies to all ethnic group (DeNisco, 2021). I will also keep in mind that culturally incompetent care could affect patient care outcomes and widen the healthcare disparities gap (DeNisco, 2021). Madeleine Leininger's Transcultural Nursing Theory Madeleine Leininger's Transcultural Nursing Theory, also known as Culture Care Theory, was developed in the 1950s while many nurses were being introduced to different cultures due to the increased number of immigrants (Gonzalo, 2021). Transcultural nursing, by definition, is a learned branch of nursing that focuses on the comparative study of cultures to provide efficacious nursing care to their cultural values (Wayne, 2021). Leininger developed the theory to help the nurse researchers study and explain the relative culture care values, beliefs, and practices of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures (McFarland & Wehbe-Alamah, 2019). The concept of Transcultural Nursing Theory is helpful for nurses today as we are facing more diverse cultures in our practices. Different cultures have different values, beliefs, and perceptions of well-being. What was normal in one culture can be considered a taboo in another. Transcultural Nursing Theory encompasses the nurse to focus on the multicultural aspect of care and helps the nurse be culture-sensitive to different cultures to provide culturally competent care. 3

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Worldview and Transcultural Nursing Theory My spirituality is rooted in a Christian worldview and is an essential foundation of my nursing practices and how I provide care to all patients. Spirituality is an individual's sense of purpose, peace, relationships with others, and views on life that increase an individual's ability to cope with illness and speed up recovery (Ebrahimi et al., 2017). According to Christian values and Transcultural Nursing Theory, providing patient care is a culturally holistic approach to caring for individual patients, striving to aid healing, empathize with what they are going through, and provide compassionate care while considering their cultural preferences and beliefs. What makes my worldview and Transcultural Nursing Theory more in line are my experiences while adapting to a new culture. As I presented earlier, no one tried to understand my culture or get to know me while adjusting to the new culture. All just tried to understand me with generalized pieces of information, and in the process, I was lonely and perplexed, not knowing how to react to the given situation. The same is valid for nursing. If we do not try to get to know the patients from other cultures in depth and treat them with generalized data, we will not achieve culturally competent care. For instance, each patient states their native language, preferred language, and religious preferences as part of the admissions process. However, these attributes are often neglected by care providers, especially when developing patient care plans. Our views and beliefs are imposed on the patient's care, but no cultural considerations are implemented other than printing documents in their language during the discharge process. The inconsistent practice of interdisciplinary teams that do not incorporate the patient's religious and cultural preferences is a departure from my worldview and Transcultural Nursing Theory. Future Implication in Practice 4

Although my worldview is based mainly on the ingrained beliefs of Christianity, I know that all humans have different views, religions, beliefs, and spiritualities for various reasons. As a future FNP, I will continue to use my worldview and Transcultural Nursing Theory to recognize, respect, and integrate the beliefs and preferences of the diverse communities I serve. By acknowledging how much of my faith in God has earned me through life, I will continue to encourage others to rely on their spirituality for their recovery. Finally, I will listen to the needs of my patients, understand their culture and religion, and strive to guide their healing through a treatment plan tailored to their respective circumstances. 5

References DeNisco, S.M. (2021). Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession (4 th Edition). Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN:9781284176124 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 Gonzalo, A. B. (2021). Madeleine Leininger: Transcultural Nursing Theory. Nurseslabs. https://nurseslabs.com/madeleine-leininger-transcultural-nursing-theory/ McFarland, M., & Wehbe-Alamah, H. (2019). Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 30 (6), 540-557. doi: 10.1177/1043659619867134. Wayne, G. B. (2021). Nursing Theories and Theorists. Nurseslabs. https://nurseslabs.com/nursing-theories/ 6

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Appendix A APA Writing Checklist Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center. ☒ APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout. ☒ The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors. ☒ The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors. ☒ Topic is well defined. ☒ Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper. ☒ The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion. ☒ Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors. ☒ All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error. ☒ Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA style, and format is free of error. Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience. Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally published encyclopedias and dictionaries. Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal's subject discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the required expectations of an article in that subject discipline. Empirical Journal Article : This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature review, methodology, results, and discussion. Adapted from "Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources," located in Research Guides in the GCU Library. ☒ The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly, LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing. 7

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