Module 4

• Nursing as an art


  Nursing is itself an art. It can be drama, it can be dialogue, it can be a comedy. The patient can be viewed as an inspiration to and participant in the art of nursing.
• Purpose of art


  • Involves communication of emotions to invoke a response
• Nursing is an art
• Concepts related to the art of nursing

  • Caring
  • Compassion
  • Optimism
  • Empathy
• Caring


  Means comforting, providing presence, knowing the client, listening, family care, spiritual caring
• Five processes of caring

  • Knowing
  • Doing for
  • Being with
  • Enabling
  • Maintaining belief
• Alfaro, R.: 'The Nursing as an Art, derives its philosophical pedestal from the consideration of life as a fundamental value and unfolds the art of care-healing cased with moral, philosophical, mental, social and scientific values of every epoch'
• Nursing as an art involves applying theoretical content to the development of basic nursing care of client in a clinical setting, appraising client condition in the context of the health and illness continuum, demonstrating responsibility for own behavior and growth as an adult learner and a professional, demonstrating high sense of student engagement, and utilizing appropriate technology (media) in the development of nursing care plan and using learning management system to enhance knowledge delivery
• Nursing as an art involves practicing core values in day to day activities
• the nursing as an art


  “”derives

  its philosophical pedestal from the consideration of life as a fundamental value and unfolds the art of care-healing cased with moral, philosophical, mental, social

  and scientific values of every epoch".
• Knowing for


  Is striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of other
• doing for


  is doing for the others as he or she would do for the self if it were at all possible
• enabling


  is facilitating the other’s passage through life transitions (e.g. birth, death, and unfamiliar events)
• being with


  being emotionally present to the other
• maintaining belief


  sustaining faith in the other’s capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future with meaning
• Five processes of caring: knowing, doing for, maintaining belief, enabling, being with
• jean watson


  “the essence of nursing is caring”
• care in nurse practice:

  • providing presence
  • comforting
  • listening
  • knowing the client
  • spiritual caring
  • family care
• art


  is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions
• art


  “both human creative skill or its application”