You are required to submit a scholarly paper in which you will identify, describe, research, and apply the concepts that underlie your personal philosophy for professional nursing practice.

This will help you identify your own values and beliefs about the established metaparadigms and metatheories of the discipline. It will also help you identify and articulate concepts relevant to your specific practice. This paper is intended to be an exercise in clarification and organization of your professional foundation. You are also required to provide a list of assumptions from personal nursing practice that illustrate the concepts and framework of your theory.

Your paper should follow a format that includes:

• Nursing Autobiography: A brief (1 page) discussion of your background in nursing.
• The Four Metaparadigms: Identification, discussion, and documentation from the literature of your perspective on the basic four metaparadigms/concepts of patient, nurse, health, and environment.
• Two Practice-Specific Concepts: Identification, discussion, and documentation from the literature of your perspective on at least two other concepts specific to your own practice.
• List of Propositions: A numbered list of at least five propositions or assumption statements that clearly connect the concepts described.

Each week, you will complete various segments of your Concept Synthesis Paper and submit it to the Submissions Area for facilitator feedback when necessary. Your paper should integrate these discrete elements and reflect your personal nursing philosophy.

Your Concept Synthesis Paper on your Personal Nursing Philosophy is due in Week 3. However, it is recommended that you begin working on your paper from Week 1 onwards and complete the various components related to the paper week wise as you progress through the course. The suggested tasks for each week are:

Week 1: Nursing Biography and The Four Metaparadigms of Nursing
Week 2: Two Practice-specific Concepts, and List of Propositions/Assumptions
Week 3: Due: Concept Synthesis Paper on Personal Nursing Philosophy

Consider the following questions as you complete your various tasks related to this assignment.

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How do I define and employ the four basic metaparadigms of nursing theory in my professional practice?

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What are the major concepts I employ that are unique to my professional practice?

3.

What philosophies and theories from the literature of nursing and other disciplines/domains are consistent with these concepts?

4.

How are the concepts of transcultural nursing, the health promotion model, skill acquisition, role theory, and change theory specifically integrated into  my philosophy and practice?

5.

What research supports these theories and concepts?

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How do I integrate role and change theory into my professional practice and how may these theories be applied to the organization in which I practice?

The paper is to be thoroughly researched and well documented, with relevant material from the nursing theorists presented incorporated into the paper. Use the current edition of the APA Manual throughout the paper. Sources should focus on references from nursing theory but may also include conceptual and theoretical material from other professional domains. The paper, excluding references or appendices, is to be limited to 6-10 pages. Writing should be succinct and well organized, as it is impossible for the facilitator to evaluate form and content separately.

My name is Beatriz Duque Daria I was born in Cuba, but I am currently living in Miami Florida, I am 37 years old, I have two wonderful children that I love with all my heart and a wonderful family. I decided to study nursing from a very early age to help sick people and to be a successful professional in life because it has always been my vocation. I graduated in 2005 as a nurse and a couple of month latter I arrived in the United States, work as a Certified Nursing Assistant, phlebotomy technician until I took my registered nurse state board exam in 2015, since then I work as a nurse at Kendall Regional Medical Center in the intermediate care unit and Baptist Hospital in the Oncology unit in Miami. 

I decided to do the master in Family because I would like to grow in this area looking for new challenges as a professional, researching with the aim of achieving a better patient care and preventive care since it is crucial in our everyday life. Throughout this course one of my goals is to improve my leadership and integrity in the workplace as a Nurse Practitioner. In my practice, I have found that I enjoy the interaction with people from all around with life in various settings. The ability to touch not only the patient but the whole family, groups of peoples and communities are very rewarding. Also, my major interesting is in the clinical setting where I am able to gather and analyze information and work with an interdisciplinary team to care for people; these interactions between provider (NP, PA, MD) is in the best positions to make all of the above possible.

Week 3 Concept Synthesis Template

Please use these Headings for your Week 3 Concept synthesis Paper

Concept Synthesis Paper:

One way for you to provide items clearly is to use headings and subheadings.

Title (not bold)

            Short introductory paragraph (but do not label as “Introduction”)

Autobiography (bold)

    Insert your autobiography here

Metaparadigm Concepts (in the order you desire)

Nursing (bold)
    Define/describe nursing here

Health

    Define/describe health here
Person

    Define/describe person here
Environment
    Define/describe environment here

Additional Concepts

Additional concept one (name your concept)

    Define/describe first additional concept here
Additional concept two (name your concept)
    Define/describe second additional concept here

Propositions

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Present Clinical Example

Conclusion

If you follow this outline/these headings, it will be much easier for me to see that you completed the requirements for the paper but it will also make organizing the paper easier for you.