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Nursing is... - ✔✔caring
an art
science
client centered
holistic
adaptive
concerned with health promotion, maintenance, and restoration
a helping profession
science component of nursing - ✔✔• Analytical framework, the nursing process
• Knowledge and skills in critical thinking
• Familiar with and understand a plenitude of facts: medical terms, medical
procedures, medications, disease mechanisms of all diseases,
• Diagnostic equipment and machines knowledge
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, • Evidence-based practice
art component of nursing - ✔✔• Involves the 'human touch',
• Based on caring and respect for human dignity
• For the whole person - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually
• Nursing embraces healing fostered by compassion, helping, listening, mentoring,
coaching, teaching, exploring, being present, supporting, touching, intuition, empathy,
service, cultural competence, tolerance, acceptance, nurturing, mutually creating, and
conflict resolution
American Nursing Association (ANA) - ✔✔Nursing is the protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of
suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the
care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
World Health Organization (WHO) - ✔✔Nursing encompasses autonomous and
collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or
well and in all settings. It includes the promotion of health, the prevention of illness,
and the care of ill, disabled and dying people.
International Council of Nurses (ICN) - ✔✔Nursing encompasses autonomous and
collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or
well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness,
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