Nursing as a profession

          NURSING AS A PROFESSION

Introduction

Nursing as an art is the application of knowledge and skill to bring about desired results. It is an individual action. Nursing art is carried out by the nursing in an one-to-one relationship with the patient and constitutes the nurse's conscious response to a specific and patient and constitutes the nurse's conscious response to a specific and patient's immediate situation.

The term 'Nurse's' evolve from the Latin word  nutrix, which means to nourish or to cherish. Today nursing emerged as a learned profession that is both a science and an art. It is a body of knowledge. Knowledge is an awareness or perception of reality, which is acquired through learning or investigation.

Science is defined as a both a unified body of knowledge concerned with specific subject matter,the skills and methodology necessary to provide such knowledge.