Internal and external environments may enhance or disrupt the human's health status. Health is a dynamic, multi-dimensional state of being in which the potential of a human is realized. The relative dominance of human strengths or limitations determines health. Health may coexist and interact with illness, and is largely defined by culture. Health is the focus of nursing attention, not as an end in itself, but as a means to life that is meaningful and manageable.
Nursing is a practice discipline utilizing nursing theory and research.
As a discipline, nursing assists humans by using critical thinking in the nursing process to assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate. The essence of nursing is the caring for and nurturing of humans in the performance of those activities contributing to health, recovery, or peaceful death. Philosophical Statements Learning is the art or process of acquiring knowledge and skill by means of investigation, instruction, practice, and experience. Learning is an active internal process that involves cognitive, psychomotor, and affective aspects of human behavior. A change of behavior, attitude, or thinking that endures over time indicates that learning has occurred.