Spirit
Spirituality is a broad concept which contains a sense of connection to something universal, to something bigger than ourselves. A spiritual experience is often described as transcendent and even sacred, and can be connected to an ultimate or immaterial reality. Spirituality allows a person to discover the essence of his or her being and the deepest values with which a person takes a place in the society. Philosophy relates spirituality more to a personal search finding a greater meaning and a purpose in the existence. Spirituality within patient care helps to address the patients’ understanding of illness or change. Spiritual perspectives provide a context wherein stress or anxieties about physical and mental functioning can be understood.
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Postmodernism is an approach to reality that is having a great effect on culture, education, healthcare, science, the study of history and people 's views. It sees the reality as a conceptual construct and result of scientific practice. Some theories of postmodernism took an additional step saying that since fiction is all we can know, humans should treat life as an abstract stage for acting. In place of realizing that reality is a construction, we can start inventing ourselves and alternative "realities," as forms of social experiments. According to postmodernism, we all create our own reality and God has nothing to do with it. Denying the absolute truth, postmodernism concentrates on feelings, emotions, and reflection. Each person develops his or her own moral values which are shaped by the culture and society, but still there is a strong emphasis on self-expression and individualism. However, it has its own negative sides as numerous rewriting of history what led to the point when no one could be sure about this or that event in the past. The postmodern philosophies can be espoused in order to develop a complete and adequate science for different disciplines as, for example, nursing. This becomes possible due to an appeal to pragmatism. Without philosophical basis there can be no substantial development of nursing
Goals & Interventions: 1. Nursing Diagnosis: Impaired gas exchange r/t exacerbation of COPD a.e.b. wheezing in patient’s throughout. Goals/outcomes: Patient will maintain adequate ventilation and have clear breath sounds within 24 hours upon auscultation. Goal met within 24 hours of initial respiratory assessment and maintained over a 24 hour period 10/26/2015.
To understand or experience that spirit is to be truly alive. This spirit is what makes all things equal in the eyes of Mother Nature and what makes all things resemble God. True understanding of this concept cannot be done purely by intellect; “it must be experiential” as well in the form of “prayer, contemplation, and meditation.” Once action is taken to awake to this realization and “we become truly aware of our hearts, we feel comfort and release right away.” This must take place in order to become compassionate souls willing and able to produce real change for a better, happier existence for all transient beings.
The Spiritual model is getting a sense of how people’s spiritual and religious beliefs, values, and practices might be related to their presenting problem and can also provide direction to clients in constructing solutions for their lives. Spirituality is individual, subjective and can be expressed in different ways. Some people choose to express their spirituality through religion or religious practice, while others may not. Spirituality can also be described as the search for answers to life’s big questions, why is this happening to me?
These viewpoints have importance for medicine as well as for nursing or other health professions. The complete practice of human caring theory is most fully realized in a nursing theory because nursing allows for the constant caring factor that medicine does not have;
Philosophy of Nursing Everyone’s values and beliefs about the profession of nursing are all different. The four concepts of nursing are interrelated and all mean something different to every person, too. Throughout this paper, I will be reflecting on my values and beliefs about nursing through the four concepts while comparing them to a nursing theorist with views that are most similar to my own.
The traits of postmodernism are seen as the norm within society. It is a notion that allows all different and inferior features within society. Older modernism was seen as ugly, obscure and anti-social. Jameson also claimed that there was a mutation within the cultural sphere that declared the attitudes within older modernism as outdated. Jameson states that the ideas of older modernists are not seen as outdated anymore, that they are rather realistic.
Caring for The Individual: An Examination of Personal Nursing Philosophy Arianna Mailloux 400164224 NURSING 2AA3 Ashley Collins Harris February 19, 2018 As a novice nurse, developing and understanding of ones’ own personal feelings about nursing is important to help shape your clinical practice. Within this paper I will examine my personal assumptions, beliefs and values of the four nursing paradigms to develop a personal philosophy of nursing. This philosophy will be aligned with a known nursing theory and the comparisons will be discussed. Section I: Personal Philosophy of Nursing Person
The practice of nursing evolves daily from theories and philosophies that are proven by researchers, resulting in growth of the medical profession and advanced evidence based knowledge. Philosophies According to Alligood (2014b), philosophies are specific theories that focus on one or more metaparadigm concepts in a wide spectrum philosophical way (p. 43). For a person to understand philosophies it is required to understand the knowledge type, metaparadigms. Metaparadigm Metaparadigm is the vast perspective of a discipline and a way to describe a concern specifically to a profession or department (Alligood, 2014b, p.42).
The late 20th century exhibited a revolutionary movement in the arts known as postmodernism, which ultimately became quintessential in every aspect of literature and culture. It developed as technology, consumerism, and the media were growing at an insane rate. It replaced modernism since modern culture was being redefined through the rise of new information and technology. Postmodernism expresses that the world is in a state of incompleteness and uncertainty. As a result of this uncertainty, postmodernism contains skeptical interpretations of literature, culture, government, and technology.
Nursing theories have an impact on nursing practice as they
Postmodernism has been widely used over the past two decades but trying to pinpoint one definitive meaning for the term is very difficult indeed. Taken literally, postmodernism means “after the modernist movement” yet there is something else entirely to postmodernism than that. One thing that is sure is Postmodernism is an adaptable term that can cover an extensive variety of works of art. Basic scholars use postmodernism as state of deviation for works of writing, shows, engineering, film and plan. Postmodernism was basically a response to Modernism. ".
It emphasizes that beliefs and practices are not sacred unless people make them such. Once as sacred, people take special significance and give meaning to their lives. Religious rituals and ceremonies illustrate symbolic interactionist. They make it deeply intense that it would involve emotions of it, up to psychological states. It could even be an transformative experience for one as well.
This quote best describes the works of postmodernism and it reads as follows; “Postmodernism takes what it likes from high culture and puts it to work in popular culture”. Hart (2004:08). The lights are just a decorative feature which is only seen at night. The bridge remains modernist during the till the sun dawns. Post modernism usually has decorative elements that are really not necessary and not functional.
Postmodernism is a human right rationalist modernism overemphasized, while the natural human emotion, history, preferences and emotional dependence off a gut reaction." "Narrowly" postmodernism "refers to the 60 s and 70 s 20th century western design trend to develop in the direction of diversification of a new genre, can in the 1960 s as a watershed of modernism and postmodernism. " During the period of modern socialist international style still occupy the mainstream position, then modernism began breeding from modernism, and gradually formed his own theory. In summary, postmodernism has a significant impact on all areas of the world, and today I mainly discussed the impact of postmodernism on the design of the 20th century, then we will start with the design to the overall understanding the
According to Abulad, “postmodernism does not merely chronologically follow modernism, it reacts against modernism.” He argued that postmodernism is not an ideology or a school of thought one may or may not adopt. Rather, postmodernism is a consciousness, a way of thinking, a mode of life and thought which may be conscious or unconscious, a perspective that defines one’s attitude towards reality and