| Learning Objective #1: Describe the arts as aesthetic expressions of nursing practice | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Situate and establish the appreciation of art as aesthetic expression of nursing |
The common understanding of nursing art is the traditional practice of bodily actions in the performance of tasks and technologies in nursing, such as preparing a wrinkle-free bed or administering a painless intramuscular injection. While this traditional understanding may be perpetuated in some national and international practice arenas, contemporary appreciation of the art of nursing has been transformed to the appropriate view of nursing art as the aesthetic expression of nursing. Nursing is a discipline of knowledge and a practice profession. Its practice focus is nurturing persons as whole and complete in the moment. A theoretical perspective that grounds this understanding is Nursing as Caring, a model of practice by Boykin and Schoenhofer. In this model, aesthetic expression preserves and communicates the nursing situation, in which all nursing takes place. It is the shared and lived experience in which caring between the nurse and nursed enhances living and growing in caring. Creating and visioning these aesthetic expressions perpetuates the experience by re-living the knowledge that is represented in the expression. Clarifying, situating, and establishing the appreciation of art as aesthetics in nursing is critical to the understanding of nursing as a discipline of knowledge and a practice profession.
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