Nurses may practice in rapidly changing situations where clients needs are complex and are able to adjust plans and priorities as change occurs. Nurses assist clients to live with alterations in health and build on their strengths to assist them towards the goals of optimal health, wellness, and independence. Nursing practice integrates health promotion activities at the individual, family, and community levels. Nurses, as the largest group of health care professionals, accept the responsibility to influence decisions that support the development of healthy public policy. Nurses respond directly to the needs of clients and to enhance health.
Nursing care is comprehensive, innovative, flexible, readily available, and cost-effective.
The depth and breadth of the scope of nursing practice places nurses in a position where they make a significant contribution to health care. Client May be an individual, family, group, or community. Health Is the extent to which an individual or group is able to realize aspirations to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Health is, therefore, seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. The minimum acceptable criteria for nursing practice.