Nursing Philosophy and Comparison Paper
A Comparison of Personal Philosophy and Sr. Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model
September 14, 2011

Nursing Philosophy and Comparison Paper

A Comparison of Personal Philosophy and Sr. Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model A personal philosophy is what one values for themselves as human beings. It reflects the many faceted realities of their self-concept and is influenced by: culture, spirituality, morals, values, and belief concepts. The relevance of one’s personal philosophy to nursing is significant. One’s philosophy directly affects the interpersonal relationship and care given to patients. For the purpose of this paper, the author will reflect and incorporate her nursing philosophy with the four nursing metaparadigms: person, environment, health and nursing, with the Roy Adaptation Model (RAM) and compare similarities’ and differences. Personal Philosophy The author’s personal philosophy is seeded in spirituality and seeing the world as interconnected with a divine source where all things are possible. She attempts to integrate the core concepts of her philosophy: intuition, altruism, holism, empathy, knowledge, compassion and advocacy into the nursing process. The author will define and demonstrate her nursing philosophy as applied to the metaparadigms. The person is viewed as a unique individual and energetic being (spirit) within a physical and integrated body system connected to a higher supreme source; environment: the internal and external state that influences the spiritual and physical person; health: a physical and mental state that is interdependent and works consciously and subconsciously to maintain wholeness; Nurse: the advocate: obligated to put aside personal philosophies and belief concepts if not beneficial or congruent to the persons preferred course of action; empowering to the person, to