http://npbusiness.org/how-are-your-values-reflected-in-your-practice/ Resources for NPs in Business Sun, 13 May 2012 05:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://npbusiness.org/how-are-your-values-reflected-in-your-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-1223 Glenda Clemens Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:44:00 +0000 http://npbusiness.org/?p=435#comment-1223 I strongly feel that as nurse practitioners we have a unique opportunity to be different than the medical establishment. We have different philosophies guiding us (aka nursing theory) and we have different training (revolves around the patient rather than science). At our practice we try to use Rosemary Parse's Theory of Human Becoming as the cornerstone of our practice. It keeps the patient at the center of things rather than the health care providers at the center of things. We are pleased to be a principle centered practice and work to keep it that way. Like your practice, our patients see and feel the difference. They feel they are welcome and that we really care about them as people. I makes it easier to discuss difficult things and makes them more committed to being a part of their total health picture. I strongly feel that as nurse practitioners we have a unique opportunity to be different than the medical establishment. We have different philosophies guiding us (aka nursing theory) and we have different training (revolves around the patient rather than science). At our practice we try to use Rosemary Parse’s Theory of Human Becoming as the cornerstone of our practice. It keeps the patient at the center of things rather than the health care providers at the center of things. We are pleased to be a principle centered practice and work to keep it that way. Like your practice, our patients see and feel the difference. They feel they are welcome and that we really care about them as people. I makes it easier to discuss difficult things and makes them more committed to being a part of their total health picture.

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