title: Aesthetic inquiry and the art of nursing.
abstract: This article describes the development of aesthetic inquiry and the emerging conceptualization of the art of nursing as an art form. Aesthetic knowing, which emerges from aesthetic inquiry, is described as connoisseurship of the art of nursing and includes appreciation of the art form and insight into meanings of the art. A method of aesthetic criticism is described that links artistic experience, history, form, alternate meanings, and future possibilities. The inquiry yielded two essential elements of the art of nursing, movement and narrative, which, when manifested as an art form have the capacity to shift experience into a different realm.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Chinn
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Maeve
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bostick
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D004954:Esthetics; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009068:Movement; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009729:Nursing; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000379:methods; D014110:Touch