Work environment requiring flexibility

and greater accountability

Caring for people everywhere
Largest health care workforce (5M
worldwide)
Rich diversity of knowledge and skills
A commitment to quality
A readiness to change
Making a difference despite the
difficulties
Nursing is not merely an activity
supporting medicine
Expanding body of research
Should demonstrate an
appropriate balance
between quality care and
cost-effectiveness
Reaffirm a critical human value of the
profession, that of caring
Ethical mandate of considering the costs
and benefits of treatment in terms of
preserving the patients human dignity
and ability to function at the highest level
of potential
The need to identify the values and
philosophy of nursing within the
cultural, socioeconomic milieu of the
country
Identify which values and philosophy
of nursing exists within each country
Human effort to imitate, supplement,
alter, or counteract the work of nature.
The conscious production or
arrangement of sounds, colors, forms,
movements, or other elements in a
manner that affects the sense of
beauty(American Heritage Dictionary,
2008)
Communication
Entertainment
Political Change
Psychological and healing purpose
Propaganda/
Commercialism
Nursing is an art, and if it is to be made an
art, it requires as exclusive a devotion, as
hard a preparation, as any painters or
sculptors work, for what is having to do
with the living body - the temple of Gods
spirit I had almost said, the finest of the
fine Arts.
(Nightingale as cited by Donahue, 1996)
Through her touch, the nurse may express
that she care for him in a unique and tacit
way.
(Michalis, 2002)
Nursing requires expressiveness as a
possible instrument for the analysis of
nursing in terms of art and aesthetic value.
(Michalis, 2002)

A purpose of art, like nursing, involves
communication of emotions to invoke a
response.
(Sheppard, 1986)
In every nursing task there is a conception
of beauty seen as well as hidden,
performed by the nurse daily through
caring and healing.
(Michalis, 2002)

You are an individual with:
Unique identity
Innate dignity
And a part of human society
Own personality
Own character
Refers to the moral values and beliefs that are
used as guides for personal behavior and
actions
What a person is inside
Shaped in part by moral values
Develops in proportion to emotional and
intellectual growth
Involves the degree to which one understands,
directs and channels own feelings
Governs relations with man and the agencies
within which society operates
Directs that we respect others, their rights,
welfare and just due
Being righteous, correct, fair and impartial
Authority to uphold what is right, just or lawful
Provides for vision and a sense of balance in
our lives
Integrates our life activities to achieve a
harmonious complete whole
Guides our choices of action here and now
Provides a basis for the exercise of sound
judgment in practical matters
Provides the control of responses made to
difficulties and dangers
Guides our use of reason in meeting a
challenging situation
Assists in the control of feelings, thoughts and
emotions in the face of difficulty
Inner resource that permits us to endure
misfortune with patience
Encourages constructive uses of pleasures of
the senses
Guides activities for growth and achievement
within boundaries of self-control and
moderation
Enriches human life through rational control
of ones lifes essential functions and basic
emotional drives