Haidee G. Curiba outlines her nursing philosophy which focuses on holistic, compassionate care for patients and their families. She believes in lifelong learning to improve her skills and knowledge as a nurse. As a nurse in the delivery room, she builds trust with patients and supports them physically and emotionally during childbirth. Her philosophy is guided by the four meta-paradigms of nursing: person, environment, health, and nursing. She aims to provide high quality, whole-person care that considers patients' lives and communities.

1. Haidee G. Curiba, RN

2. My nursing philosophy is to be holistic, understanding, loving,
caring to all my patients and their relatives. It is essential to me to
be a patient advocate, provider, teacher, manager, and leader
because I think that as a nurse I should deliver the highest quality
nursing care in order to accomplish all my patient’s needs.

3. As a professional nurse, I feel a personal
commitment toward life-long learning, through
formal education and hands-on experience to
better myself and my nursing knowledge

4. In the nursing profession you need to have an
overwhelming amount of compassion and caring
for your patients and their families. You are not
only caring for the patient’s physical health, but
also their emotional needs.

5. I work in the Delivery Room where mother and newborn
babies should take cared of during and after delivery. I build
rapport and trust with my patient and spend time talking to
them about birthing plans, the childbirth process, taking care
of their medical needs, and also supporting them physically
and emotionally.

6. My personal nursing philosophy characterizes the
discipline of nursing using the four meta-
paradigms concepts: person, environment,
health, and nursing.

7. I believe that the profession of nursing is all about
people. Care involves the whole patient, and not just
a single illness or health concern treated. Our holistic
perspectives consider all sides of a patient’s life, and
facilitate optimum quality of life to our patients.

8. It is also necessary to look beyond the patient to
the environment in which he/she lives. This is
very important because people are members of a
larger community with different features and
characteristics that influence greatly our patients,
so we cannot separate patients from their
environment because they are interrelated.

9. I believe that health is a dynamic state that
exists on a continuum from wellness to illness
and shifts in response to environmental factors.
Health is more about quality of life. I work in a
hospital where I routinely encounter patients
that have experienced or suffer from chronic
and acute physical and mental health
conditions.

10. I think that nursing involves being with
individual patients or communities. Each day we as
nurses encounter different situations that require
our ability to make meaning of a patient’s
situation, such as, attaching significance to those
things that can be felt, observed, heard, touched,
smelled or imagined to our subjective interaction
with patients.

11. As nursing progresses into the 21st century there is some
suggestion that survival and advancement of the discipline
requires increase engagement of practicing nurses in utilizing
and developing specifically nursing knowledge (Cody, 2006;
Fawcett, 2006; Silva, 2006). Perhaps a beginning point may
be developing a personal nursing philosophy that focuses on
areas distinct to nursing as this enables reflection on
understanding relationships between personal philosophical
thought as related to current issues in the field (DeKeyser &
Medoff-Cooper, 2009; Schlotfeldt, 2006).

12. I believe that nursing is a discipline that encompasses
four integral attributes (1) the person, (2) environment,
(3) health and (4) nursing which I have discussed in
relation to current literature on nursing, using examples
from my own nursing experience, including explanation
of how some have allowed me to contribute to the
development of nursing knowledge.

13. The satisfaction gained through work is increased as the
nurse becomes energized and passionate about work. It is
for the same reason that the nurse is able to empathize
with the patient. The nurse is close to the patient and
attends to all demands being made, it quickens the
recovery progress. The patient is not ashamed to
communicate and share deep feelings. On the other hand
the nurses are well able to experience the illnesses thus
increase their understanding. In this way it becomes
easier to attend to similar cases in future.