Professional Presence and Influence C351Introduction Throughout this paper, I will examine the role of professional nursing, and how my personal beliefs and values effect my own practice or nursing. I will differentiate models of health and healing, and how they influence my delivery of care to the patient. I will learn to recognize how my personality affects my professional relationships, and presence. Lastly, I will take a look at how mindful practice can promote healing environments.

Professional Presence Models of Health and Healing The models of health do include some similarities, but they are mostly differentiating. I will focus on Era I, the Mechanical model, and Era III, the Body/Mind/Spirit model. The Mechanical model of Era I began to develop in the 1860s at a time...