Viewing persons solely as the summation of organ systems confines nursing practice

Viewing persons as a composite of organ systems poses challenges to “knowing persons as caring”, delimiting surveying persons as the focus of nursing in contemporary and future practices in a highly technological world. With this perspective, it is evident that nursing practice is a professional practice, a discipline of knowledge, and essential to human health and well-being. A realization such as this can be implemented by utilizing technologies in nursing as knowing persons as caring. It is necessary to bring together and implement nursing theories towards beholding nursing practice as not only focusing on the biomedical process of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation but also bringing together the essence of theoretically-based assessment that appreciates persons as a whole in the practice of nursing. Nurses are encouraged to realize that persons are always whole, regardless of missing organ systems. Realizations of persons as remaining wholes and completely deterring viewing them as objects of care, enhancing and expressing their humanness, encouraging mutual respect for persons, and elevating the informed nurse and nursed relationship as the epitome of nursing practice.