Nursing is assessing, diagnosing, and treating human responses to actual or potential health problems and the planning, implementing, and evaluating of nursing care. The practice of nursing is based on nursing science, which includes knowledge of the principles that govern life processes, the patterning of human behavior the nature of human beings, and human interaction. The need to improve human health and patient care is the stimulus for research into nursing practice. Professional nurses are committed to the overall goal of health promotion, helping people of all ages to attain, maintain, and regain their health, and enhancing the quality of their lives, Dedicated to the care and nurturing of the sick and well in order to help them achieve maximum human functioning, nurses assist people in achieving and maintaining a healthy state, meeting their health status, recovering from illness, and dying with dignity. Humanistic, ethical, and scientific principles form the theoretical base of nursing care for individuals, families, and groups.
All people have the right to access health care.
Individuals, families, and communities retain responsibility for their own health and the right to make decisions regarding health care. People are complex organisms, and human behavior and biological functioning are a result of the interaction between individuals and their environment. Humans are endowed with hereditary qualities that may be influenced in temporary or permanent ways by the interaction with others and the environment. Each person possess strengths and limitations as a result of the interaction of hereditary and environmental factors and these in turn, create the biological and behavioral potential. Scientific principles related to the interplay of the mind, body, and spirit form the basis of our understanding of health and illness.