Topic: The Art and Science of Nursing

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This paper seeks to explore Nursing practice in an attempt to demonstrate the change in perspective of the practice over the years from a traditional view to a more contemporary and realistic view. It will seek to achieve this by performing a literature review of two articles that not only talk but also define and distinguish nursing as both an art and a science and explore a nurses’ experience of being in patient/nurse interactions.
Data used in the literature review was gathered through a random sampling of twenty-eight sophomore students, who were at the first year of learning nursing clinical experience with patients. The literature reviewed will help the reader in not only exploring the concepts of nursing but also assist them in exploring the perception of nursing, communication and also interaction.

Nurses are continuously seen as the glue that holds the system of health care together. This is because unlike doctors or patients they are always available every time, every day. Nurses expend a lot of energies to ensure that patients get excellent health care, but their duties and roles are at times not clearly defined or undervalued. The concept of nursing is based on people, health and the environment. Nursing can best be defined as specialized care that is well-cut to satisfy the needs of individuals.
Nursing is not only an art but also a science, as a science, it is based on skill acquirement and knowledge across the course as well as abstract understanding of nursing. Nursing can further be defined as an experience lived between human beings (Paterson et al., 2007). As an art, it can be said as an act of the experience in the moment (Chinn, 2001).
Nursing as an art has seen tremendous improvement both in its teachings and through its application.