THE ART OF NURSING

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

ART

Question 2

It is composed of the creative use of knowledge and skills that focuses on critical
elements of patient care

Answer 2

NURSING AS AN ART

Question 3

Is the art of Nursing

Answer 3

CARING

Question 4

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.”

Answer 4

Florence Nightingale

Question 5

Is the skill with which nursing activities are
practiced and highly personal.

Answer 5

THE ART OF NURSING

Question 6

Mastery of skills, procedures, and techniques can become artistic in nature when performed with precision, confidence, and concentration by the nurse.

Answer 6

THE ART OF NURSING

Question 7

WHAT ARE THE 4 TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE?

Answer 7

1. EMPIRICAL KNOWING
2. PERSONAL KNOWING
3. ETHICAL KNOWING
4. AESTHETIC NURSING

Question 8

Expressed by the individual nurse through his/her creativity and style in meeting the needs of clients

Answer 8

AESTHETIC KNOWING

Question 9

Ability to take on, understand, and feel another person’s perspective

(Vicariously living through the experiences of others)

Answer 9

EMPATHY

Question 10

Sympathetic feeling and concern for a person who is suffering

(A desire to relieve the pain of others)

Answer 10

COMPASSION

Question 11

Ability to see a person as a whole and more than the sum of its parts

Answer 11

HOLISM

Question 12

Capability of a person to understand what a person needs

Answer 12

SENSITIVITY

Question 13

At the heart of the nursing identity

Answer 13

CARING

Question 14

A process – a way of relating to someone that involves development, mutual trust and deepening and
qualitative transformation of relationship

Answer 14

CARING

Question 15

A universal phenomenon that influences the way which people think, feel and behave in relation to one another.

Answer 15

CARING

Question 16

Caring, the Human Mode of Being

(being true to self, being real, and being who they truly are)

Answer 16

SISTER SIMONE ROACH

Question 17

WHAT ARE THE 6 Cs OF NURSING?

Answer 17

1. Commitment
2. Compassion
3. Competence
4. Confidence
5. Conscience
6. Comportment

Question 18

● Transpersonal Caring

CARE before CURE, with caring becoming the ethical standard by which nursing care is measured.

Answer 18

JEAN WATSON

Question 19

loving kindness within context of caring
consciousness

Answer 19

Humanistic-Altruistic System of Value

Question 20

authentically present and enabling the beliefs of the one being cared for and the one giving care

Answer 20

Faith-Hope

Question 21

Cultivation of one’s own spiritual practices, going beyond self, opening to
others with compassion and sensitivity

Answer 21

Sensitivity to Self and Others

Question 22

Developing & maintaining a trusting,
authentic, caring relationship

Answer 22

Helping-Trusting, Human Care Relationship

Question 23

Being present & supporting the positive and negative feelings with a connection of a deeper spirit

Answer 23

Expressing Positive and Negative Feelings

Question 24

Creative use of self

Answer 24

Creative Problem Solving Caring Process

Question 25

Engaging in genuine teaching learning experience

Answer 25

Transpersonal Teaching-Learning

Question 26

Creating healing environment at all levels

Answer 26

Supportive, Protective, and/or Corrective Mental, Physical, Societal, and Spiritual Environment

Question 27

Assisting with basic needs with a caring consciousness to align mind/body/spirit

Answer 27

Human-Needs Assistance

Question 28

Means by which a person gains knowledge and understanding of all aspects of self-concept; Occurs through INTRAPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

Answer 28

SELF- AWARENESS

Question 28

Known to self and known to others (attributes chosen by you and others)

Answer 28

OPEN

Question 29

Unknown to self and known to others (chosen attributes given to you by others that fit your self-perspective)

Answer 29

BLIND

Question 30

Known to self and unknown to others (attributes that you choose yourself personally)

Answer 30

HIDDEN

Question 31

Unknown to self, unknown to others (attributes that nobody chose but might develop as your self-awareness increases)

Answer 31

UNKNOWN

Question 32

Professional Preparation

Answer 32

a. BSN b. License c. Physically and mentally Fit

Question 33

Personal Qualities and Professional Proficiencies

Answer 33

a. Interest and willingness to work and learn b. Warm personality and concern for people c. Resourcefulness, creativity, well-balanced emotional condition d. Cooperativeness e. Initiative to improve self and service f. Competence g. Decision-making and communication skills h. Research oriented i. Active participation in issues confronting nurses and nursing