Description
For this assignment, you will reflect on your own values and beliefs and how they connect to nursing theory. This assignment will consist of three parts:
Part 1: Your Personal Values and Beliefs
Discuss your overall enduring values and beliefs that brought you to nursing
Describe how your values align with values important to nursing
Describe philosophical perspectives, religious views, and/or writings/works of scholars other than nursing theorists that have served as guides for your value/belief formulation
Part 2: Connection to Nursing Theory
Select a nursing theory that aligns with your beliefs and complete the following:
Provide a description, analysis, and evaluation of the theory using the criteria from Box 5-3 on page 107 in your textbook (Synthesized Method for Theory Evaluation)
Describe how your philosophical values and beliefs align with a nursing theory **NOTE: Please do not provide merely a description of the nursing theory. You MUST explain how that theory aligns with your beliefs.
Part 3: Connection to Jesuit Educational Themes/Values
Discuss how the Jesuit educational themes in the Kolvenbach and the values discussed in “Lighting The Way” will impact or can be integrated into your philosophy of nursing (You can access the articles under the “Read” section)
In this assignment, please also include an introduction and a concluding paragraph.
