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Hello please give me different answers of those questions that I asked before

What makes nursing as a profession both a science and art?

As a student nurse, how will you integrate nursing as both a science and art in your client?

Answer 1

Ans) Nursing is a discipline that focuses on alleviating pain and suffering through protection, promoting health, wellness, and prevention of illness and injury. The nursing profession is an advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

- Nurse researchers are scientists who study various aspects of health, illness and health care. By designing and implementing scientific studies, they look for ways to improve health, health care services and health care outcomes. Deliver health care services more effectively and efficiently.

- The science of nursing: theory, evidence, technology:

- Nursing is a legitimate scientific discipline rooted in theory, ongoing research and evidence. We take evidence and implement it to improve quality and to improve nursing practice.

- Nurses study complicated scientific concepts, theories and hands-on methodology to understand the complexities of the human body. "A scientist is one who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences. The physical sciences we work with are both nursing sciences and the medical sciences. Nurses facilitate the care doctors provide. They also work within the framework of the nursing assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

- Before entering the workforce, nursing students must pass science courses, including anatomy, chemistry, microbiology and physiology, as well as behavioral sciences, such as psychology and/or sociology. Understanding the sciences is central to the nursing field.

- Beyond the hard sciences, nurses must also be proficient in the technology used throughout healthcare facilities. "Nursing is a completely different profession from a hundred years ago," Sargent explains. "It's incredibly reliant on technology, and nurses are expected to understand all of it — everything from infusion pumps to traction devices, ventilators to fall alarms and now, electronic health records."

- While nursing is steeped in evidence based-practice, scientific concepts and technical know-how, it's important to note that all of these elements can come together only under the careful application of a knowledgeable nurse. You can't have them know however many algorithms or theories and expect them to be nurses. If that was the case, robots would be nurses."

It's the human element that brings science into practice — and that's what makes the art of nursing come alive.  

The art of nursing: application, interpretation, creativity:
- Nurses must master a plethora of information about the human body. It's the manner in which they apply this expertise that can be considered the "art of nursing." Without the art of the application, the knowledge and expertise of a nurse is all but useless.

- The art of nursing can appear in many forms. It can be a nurse's ability to develop a relationship with a patient or their family and to build a mutual trust. It can be the ability to empathetically understand what a patient is going through and to explain conditions and treatments in a way they will comprehend. Or it can just as easily be a way of picking up on what is unsaid.

- Something they don't teach you in nursing school is emotional intelligence. It's the ability to read a room — your own feelings and the feelings of others — and use that to determine how to interact. "People with high emotional intelligence are really in tune with others and practice nursing at a higher level."

- Sometimes the art of nursing is more of an intuition developed through years of experience on the frontlines of healthcare. Steele describes a situation when, as a hospice nurse, he recognized a patient was going into the active dying phase. Despite not seeing any of the textbook signs of active death, Steele knew it was time to summon the family for one last visit.

- Other times, the art of nursing is seen through a creativity in the application of nursing procedures. Steele recalls an instance when his resourcefulness helped someone when medical facilities weren't near. "A friend who was an hour away from the hospital complained of chest pains," he recalls. Steele gave the friend a pinch of salt and a bottle of water, which served as a makeshift saline IV. The chest pains disappeared in less than a minute. "When disaster strikes and hospitals are not near, [nurses can] use creative means to preserve lives."

- The art of nursing can also be a balancing act. For instance, a nurse in the intensive care unit may be assigned two patients, with one being much sicker than the other. "You need to be able to convey to your patient that their needs are valid and that they are valued, while still putting lots of time and energy into the other, sicker patient and their family," Restad explains.

- Taking all of the scientific concepts and hard nursing skills one learns in school and applying those to real-life scenarios is what the nursing profession is really about. The art of application makes nursing holistic, taking the entire person and unique medical scenario into consideration. "Any person could be trained to put an IV in. Any person can learn these nursing skills. But to put it all together and add the element of care — that's nursing.