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.
Health may be a reflection of individual perceptions of balance and harmony. Nursing Education is a process that provides opportunities to expand and extend knowledge for continued growth and competency of the individual and the profession. It draws on multiple disciplines and involves organized learning experiences that augment previous knowledge and skills in preparation to practice professional nursing. Nursing education is a flexible process which fosters creativity, and independent and critical thinking. The educational process supports personal, social and intellectual development while assisting students to attain academic and professional goals.