Art and Science
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Introduction 2
Description of incident 3
Feeling and thought 4
Evaluation 4
Analysis 8
Conclusion 10
Action Plan 11
Reference 12

Introduction

Nursing is a great discipline and nurses have the honour and expertise in healing humans and bringing them back to normalcy (Reed P G, 2006). In discharging their duties effectively there is always a question that remains unresolved whether nursing should be approached as a science or an art or both? Academicians and practitioners stand on both sides and some tow along the middle path.

Gary Rofle (2002) suggests that it’s not a pure science and discounts the opinion that nursing reflects technical rationality. He suggests that reflective learning, learning as an outcome of doing, which is closely related to art and which differs from individual to individual, dimension should also be considered.

From the above discussion we can conclude that nursing is both art and science. In the words of Florence Nightingale ‘it requires preparation and dedication as hard as any sculptors work and its one of the finest fine arts’. In yet another instance she highlights the science behind the practice; ‘the most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to instruct them what to observe’, observation being a primary concept in science.