ii Yes, Nursing is both an Art and Science but ...

The value and provenance of 
nursing, 
nursing's benefits and 
high quality nursing care 

cannot just be a matter of 
record*
on paper, screen, media 
or artificial neural network ...

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ------------- NURSING as ART & SCIENCE ------------ mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

Nursing ...  and its many dimensions ...	"How do you prove that you own a work of conceptual art? This is an interesting issue in today’s art market, with the trend towards the dematerialisation of art, and the primacy of the idea over its physical presence."
"For example, the late US artist Félix González-Torres’s works include “Candy Spills”, in which wrapped sweets are piled on the floor or in a corner, to be taken and eaten by viewers. When the pile has gone, the owner of the work replenishes it. So what stops anyone making and selling their own “Candy Spill”?"	"The answer is the certificate of authenticity issued by the artist or their estate. This scrap of paper is, in fact, the only proof that the work of art genuinely belongs to you, and this is actually what you buy and sell."

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1. Often heard: "If it is not written down, it never happened."
2. Nurse registration.
3. The Uniform ™

Georgina Adams, Conceptual: only worth the paper it's written on, Financial Times, Life & Arts. June 9, 2012 p.11.