title: Statement on nursing: a personal perspective.
abstract: Contemporary nursing is based on a conglomerate of theoretical nursing models. These models each incorporate four central concepts: person, health, environment, and nursing. By defining these concepts, nurses develop an individual framework from which they base their nursing practice. As an aspiring nurse practitioner in the gastroenterology field, I have retrospectively assessed my personal definitions of person, health, environment, and nursing. From these definitions, I am able to incorporate specific theoretical frameworks into my personal belief system, thus formulating a basis for my nursing practice. This foundation is comprised of the influence of nursing theorists Jean Watson, Sister Callista Roy, Kolcaba, Florence Nightingale, and Ida J. Orlando; the Perioperative Patient-Focused Model; Watson's Theory of Human Caring; theories regarding transpersonal human caring and healing; and feminist theories. Therefore, this article describes self-examination of nursing care by defining central nursing concepts, acknowledging the influence of nursing theorists and theories, and developing a personal framework from which I base my nursing practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN, USA. mccutcheon@copper.net
authors.forename: Tonna
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: McCutcheon
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004645:Empathy; D019513:Feminism; D005762:Gastroenterology; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009736:Nursing Process; D009742:Nursing Theory; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*