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
Is the art of Nursing
CARING
According to _________ “It requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any
painter’s or sculptor’s work; For what is having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, The temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the fine Arts: I had almost said, The finest of Fine Arts.”
Florence Nightingale
Is the skill with which nursing activities are
practiced and highly personal.
THE ART OF NURSING
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
WHAT ARE THE 4 TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE?
- EMPIRICAL KNOWING
- PERSONAL KNOWING
- ETHICAL KNOWING
- 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
At the heart of the nursing identity
CARING
A process – a way of relating to someone that involves development, mutual trust and deepening and
qualitative transformation of relationship
CARING
A universal phenomenon that influences the way which people think, feel and behave in relation to one another.
CARING