The clinic nurse understands the new description of nursing art/aesthetics as the way that nurses and patients help each other through a circular process. What is the event that begins this process?
A.
A health threat
B.
Experiencing new possibilities for health
C.
Hope and understanding for the future
D.
Relationship building
ANS: A
Nursing aesthetics consists of the low-tech, high-touch caring in a nurse-patient encounter. This transformative process begins with a health threat. The event that begins the process is not experiencing new possibilities for health, hope and understanding for the future, or relationship building.
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