Nursing Considerations as They Appear

Pillars of Nurse Treatment In my humble esteem, I believe there is a fair amount of truth in the statements that pertain to these two questions in this assignment. On an extremely fundamental level, working as a nurse certainly involves increasing the level of comfort for patients. The notion of making patients more comfortable is the crux of these couple of statements, which reference hand holding and back rubbing as examples of how nurses can make others feel better.

Again, the need to do so is certainly something that most patients appreciate, and which benefits them in both the short-term and the long-term. However, there is more to nursing than simply comforting someone during their time of distress. In fact, there is a significant amount of aspects pertaining to nursing that actually have very little to do with comforting patients.

Nurses need to understand many different technical principles, many of which require master's degrees (Naylor and Kurtzman, 2010), and to have a broad range of cognizance of various disciplines in the sciences. A family member or a friend can provide the sort of comfort alluded to in the statements pertaining to these questions. A professional nurse is able to incorporate that degree of comfort and even nurturing, perhaps, in the various applications of his or her training (which involves issues of technology and of science).

Thus, when looking at these two statements again, it appears that they simply require qualifiers to add to their level of veracity. For instance, one can improve the first statement by removing the phrase "all about from it." Moreover, it should now read, "A critical aspect of being a nurse is holding…." The second sentence should include the qualifier "Occasionally," to preface that sentence.

Additionally, these two sentences should have additional sentences subsequent to them explaining the technical know how and empirical based approach that nurses also need to utilize and apply to their patients (Naylor and Kurtzman, 2010) -- ideally while demonstrating the sort of care that the first two sentences mention. The script that I think most accurately captures the essence of nursing is the first one. I substantiate this viewpoint because there are a number of different types of nurses -- all of whom have different responsibilities.

Some, of course, are more severe than others, and when one factors in some of the advanced work that Advanced Nurse Practitioners due, nursing truly is about saving live. Moreover, even some of the less dire and equally important responsibilities of other nurses in more basic care positions are ultimately about saving lives. They are not only about saving lives, but increasing the quality of lives -- higher quality lives are more readily sustained than lower quality ones. As such, the first script most accurately captures the essence of nursing.

Perhaps the most cogent script is the third one. Its conviction is denoted in the example of the very small detail it references -- smoothing out bed sheets -- to avoid strenuous pain and potentially costly remedial efforts. The fact that something that seems so insignificant as smoothing out a bed sheet can produce potentially disastrous ramifications for patients makes the point that nurses have to pay attention to the details of their profession extremely convincing.