The nurse is reading an article that explains nursing as being a healing art. Which statement explains how nursing is a healing art?
A) Compassion and support are as important as caregiving.
B) Each individual nurse approaches it in a unique, creative style.
C) Nurses must "paint the canvas" of their own well-being before they can help others.
D) The challenges that nurses encounter are too unpredictable to be studied scientifically.
A
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The nursing profession emerged as a healing art characterized by its practitioners offering comfort, compassion, and caring that were equally (and perhaps sometimes more) important to patients' healing as the procedural tasks of caregiving. Nursing as a "healing art" does not mean that each nurse does not practice creatively nor does it mean that nurses paint their own canvas before helping someone else. Nursing as healing art also does not mean that challenges cannot be studied scientifically.
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