Nursing as a Art

• Nursing is both a science and an art, composed of the creative use of knowledge and skills that focuses on critical elements of patient care: communications, compassion, empathy and dedication.
• Caring is the art of nursing, requiring an exclusive devotion and as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work, as it involves the living body, the temple of God’s spirit.
• Nursing is considered one of the fine arts, the finest of Fine Arts.
• The art of nursing is the skill with which nursing activities are practiced, and is highly personal, with mastery of skills, procedures, and techniques becoming artistic in nature when performed with precision, confidence and concentration by the nurse.
• There are four types of knowledge in nursing: Empirical Knowing, Personal Knowing, Ethical Knowing, and Aesthetic Nursing.
• Aesthetic Nursing is expressed by the individual nurse through his/her creativity and style in meeting the needs of clients, and the nurse uses aesthetic knowing to provide care that is both effective and satisfying.
• Caring is at the heart of nursing identity, a process that involves development, mutual trust and deepening and qualitative transformation of relationship, a universal phenomenon that influences the way which people think, feel and behave in relation to one another.
• Nursing theories of caring include the work of S. Roach and J. Watson.
• Self-enhancement in Nursing Profession involves being physically and mentally fit, having an interest and willingness to work and learn, a warm personality and concern for people, resourcefulness, creativity, well-balanced emotional condition, cooperativeness, initiative to improve self and service, competence, decision-making and communication skills, research orientation, active participation in issues confronting nurses and nursing.
• Existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces, as defined by Watson, are the self-awareness means by which a person gains knowledge and understanding of all aspects of self-concept, which occurs through intrapersonal communication.
• Caring, the Human Mode of Being, involves being true to self, being real, and being who they truly are.
• The different carative factors as presented by Watson include 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; 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; Being present & supporting the positive and negative feelings with a connection of a deeper spirit; Creative use of self; Crea
• Transpersonal Caring, as defined by Jean Watson, involves CARE before CURE, with caring becoming the ethical standard by which nursing care is measured.