The Art of Nursing: A Practical Introduction - Paperback

by Carolyn Cooper (Author)

This unique book helps nurses identify and develop the personal qualities that go into "artful" nursing practice. Based on nurse stories that portray the art of nursing, the book guides students to analyse how each personal quality or concept is actualised in the story, understand the challenges to enactment of the concept, and then apply the concept experientially through group and individual exercises. The text illustrates and elaborates onthe forms of knowledge used by nurses and concepts central to the art of nursing such as care, spirituality, presence, compassion, self-care and advocacy.

• Helps nurses identify and develop the personal qualities that go into "artful" nursing practice.
• Nurse narratives form the core of each chapter, so that chapters read like a group of absorbing short stories, engaging the reader at an emotive and imaginative level.
• Each chapter includes a discussion of obstacles or "challenges" to the enactment of the concept discussed to help students identify ways to overcome these barriers.
• Group and individual exercises concluding each chapter help students explore the application of the concept to their own developing understanding.