Processes include critical thinking, accountability, problem solving, decision-making, caring, advocacy, and involvement. Knowledge for Advanced Practice Nursing is built upon the foundation acquired in a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and its related arts and sciences, as well as information gained from prior nursing experience. Expertise for Advanced Practice focuses on socio-cultural, ethical, economic and political issues, advanced technology, theory, research, and advanced physical and psychological sciences. Persons who participate in family-centered nursing care are individuals with unique lifestyles, knowledge, beliefs and values, needs, and goals and are able to make autonomous decisions. These clients of nursing involve complex biological, behavioral, emotional, sociocultural, philosophical and spiritual dimensions and interact dynamically with their environment.
Clients interact through relationships with families, in various forms, and communities.
Persons have a right and responsibility to participate collaboratively with nurses and other health professionals in decisions and shared accountability for outcomes. Environment is both the internal and external contexts of the individual. Environment involves reciprocal multidimensional and dynamic forces, which affect the person's health and well being. Health is a multidimensional, adaptive state of being reflecting internal and external environmental and developmental influences. Health is relative condition, characterized by wellness, illness, disease, or dysfunction.