TY - JOUR AU - Locsin, Rozzano C. PY - 2017/12/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Ethics, Empirics and Esthetics: The Visibility of Nursing and the Sustainability of Human Health in a Technological World JF - Journal of Research in Nursing-Midwifery and Health Sciences JA - JRN-MHS VL - 37 IS - Supplement SE - Articles Supplement DO - UR - https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/nur-psu/article/view/106581 SP - 1-7 AB - <p>Ethics, empirics, and esthetics seem to address the essential nature of nursing knowledge within the<br>human health experience. Reality, truth and existence are the empirical elements of the human experience.<br>Reflexivity conveyed in esthetic ways illuminates the nature and context of humanness. Art as experience<br>uncovers meanings and significance of lived situations. Ethical values are dictated by philosophical, theoretical,<br>social and cultural perspectives. Conflicts primarily address the need for ethical solutions stemming from<br>perceived versions of truths. The conditions that engender truthful solutions on questions about health and<br>well-being are highly likely situational dilemmas. Through art as representation of what is real and true,<br>labeled and displayed for sensory appreciation, the ethical and empirical ways of appreciating human health<br>and well-being become foundational realities for nursing practice, sustainable in esthetic ways as integral to<br>human health and well-being.</p> ER -