This involves the use of the personal attributes of the nurse in a therapeutic context. The use of educational methods to achieve change of facilitate the development of the health career. The essential feature of the health career model is the person in a social context. The person having physical attributes that are explained by the natural sciences, and behaviour that is explained by psychology. The social context was considered to consist of the social world explained by sociology and the policies that structure the social and physical world.
Nursing is quintessentially future orientated and concerned with the person in social context.
In social terms the nurse needs to take cognisance of the norms, values roles and social pressures that relate to such things as social class and the influences of particular cultures and sub-cultures on the concept of health the approaches to health measures and the use of health services. Health care without politics is simply not possible. Nursing occurs within a framework of policies that need to be understood if not challenged. Accessibility of clinics, provision of materials, the ethics of any intervention and the general allocation of resources, including the practitioners own time, all fall within the political arena of policies that shape the human environment. All nursing situations are essentially concerned with a particular person within a particular social context of geography, time and culture.