The nurse is caring for a patient who is scheduled for a lobectomy for a diagnosis of lung cancer. While assisting with a subclavian vein central line insertion, the nurse notes the client's oxygen saturation rapidly dropping. The patient complains of shortness of breath and becomes tachypneic.
ÏÎ¹Î»Î¿ÏÎ¿ÏÎ¯Î±, ÏÎ¹Î»Î¿ÏÎ¿ÏÎ¯Î±Ï, á¼¡ (from ÏÎ¹Î»ÏÏÎ¿ÏÎ¿Ï), properly, love (and pursuit) of wisdom; used in the Greek writings of either zeal for or skill in any art or science, any branch of knowledge, see Passow, under the word (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word).
Practical wisdom (Greek phronesis; sometimes translated âprudenceâ), says Aristotle, is âa. true and reasoned state of capacity to act with regard to the things that are good or bad. for manâ Nicomachean Ethics VI.5). So while practical wisdom involves knowledge of what. is good or bad, it is not merely theoretical knowledge, but a capacity to act on such. knowledge as well. This capacity requires. 1. a general conception of what is good or bad, which Aristotle relates to the conditions.