The Art of Nursing Flashcards
Is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
ART
It is composed of the creative use of knowledge and skills that focuses on critical elements of patient care
NURSING AS AN ART
Critical elements of patient care:
○ __________
○ __________
○ __________
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○ Communications
○ Compassion
○ Empathy
○ Dedication
Is the art of Nursing
CARING
● Is the skill with which nursing activities are practiced and highly personal.
● Mastery of skills, procedures, and techniques can become artistic in nature when performed with precision, confidence, and concentration by the nurse.
THE ART OF NURSING
The Science of Nursing
Empirical Knowing
The Therapeutic Use of Self
Personal Knowing
The Moral Component
Ethical Knowing
The Art of Nursing
Aesthetic Nursing
● Expressed by the individual nurse through his/her creativity and style in meeting the needs of clients
AESTHETIC KNOWING
○ Ability to take on, understand, and feel another person’s perspective
○ Vicariously living through the experiences of others
Empathy
○ Sympathetic feeling and concern for a person who is suffering
○ A desire to relieve the pain of others
Compassion
○ Ability to see a person as a whole and more than the sum of its parts
Holism
○ Capability of a person to understand what a person needs
Sensitivity
CARING AS THE ESSENCE OF NURSING
○ At the (1) _______ of the nursing identity
○ A (2) _______ - a way of relating to someone that involves development, mutual trust and deepening and qualitative transformation of relationship
○ A (3) __________ that influences the way which people think, feel and behave in relation to one another.
(1) heart
(2) process
(3) universal phenomenon