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:
○ __________
○ __________
○ __________
○ __________
○ 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
● Caring, the Human Mode of Being
○ being true to self,
○ being real, and
○ being who they truly are
● Six Cs of Nursing
1. Commitment
2. Compassion
3. Competence
4. Confidence
5. Conscience
6. Comportment
SIS SISMONE ROACH
● Six Cs of Nursing
1. __________
2. __________
3. __________
4. __________
5. __________
6. __________
- Commitment
- Compassion
- Competence
- Confidence
- Conscience
- Comportment
CARE before CURE, with caring becoming the ethical standard by which nursing care is measured.
Transpersonal Caring
Loving kindness within context of caring consciousness
Humanistic-Altruistic System of Value
Authentically present and enabling the beliefs of the one being cared for and the one giving care
Faith-Hope
Cultivation of one’s own spiritual practices, going beyond self, opening to others with compassion and sensitivity
Sensitivity to Self and Others
Developing & maintaining a trusting, authentic, caring relationship
Helping-Trusting, Human Care Relationship
Being present & supporting the positive and negative feelings with a connection of a deeper spirit
Expressing Positive and Negative Feelings
Creative use of self
Creative Problem Solving Caring Process
Engaging in genuine teaching learning experience
Transpersonal Teaching-Learning
Creating healing environment at all levels
Supportive, Protective, and/or Corrective Mental, Physical, Societal, and Spiritual Environment
Assisting with basic needs with a caring consciousness to align mind/body/spirit
Human-Needs Assistance
Soul care for self & the one being cared for
Existential-Phenomenological Spiritual Forces
● Means by which a person gains knowledge and understanding of all aspects of self-concept
● Occurs through INTRAPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
SELF-AWARENESS
○ Known to self and known to others
○ e.g. attributes chosen by you and others
Open
○ Unknown to self and known to others
○ e.g. chosen attributes given to you by others that fit your self-perspective
Blind
○ Known to self and unknown to others
○ e.g. attributes that you choose yourself personally
Hidden
○ Unknown to self, unknown to others
○ e.g. attributes that nobody chose but might develop as your self-awareness increases
Unknown
