NSE 11A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 4: Blood Donation, Hematocrit, Pain Management
13 May 2015
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Nurses incorporate empirical ways of knowing as basis for scienti c rationales when choosing appropriate nursing interventions. Personal: helps nurses connect with and acknowledge the humanness of another. Occurs when a nurse is able to intuitively understand and treat individual clients as unique human beings because of the nurse"s own personal experience and awareness of his or her own humanness. Aesthetics: intangible but allow for creative applications in the relationship through meaningful connections with the larger environment and life experience. Links the art of nursing with its scienti c application i. e. through storytelling, in which the nurse seeks to understand the experience of the client"s journey through illness. Nurses can use stories to clarify or enhance a variety of themes and supplement instructions. Encompasses knowledge of what is right and wrong, attention to standards and codes in making moral choices, responsibility for one"s actions, and protection of the client"s autonomy and rights.
