It contains human life, spiritual, mental, and physical aspects. The environment is continuous in time and space. Meanwhile the health is viewed as balance and harmony within the parts of the person described above. These contain the mind, body and soul. Nursing helps to attain the harmony by allowing for caring relationships that help the person to facilitate personal growth and development.
Nursing brings knowledge, values, philosophy, commitment and action.
One of the basic assumptions is that minds and emotions are the windows to the soul. The physical care that we provide to our patients is important but it is also our duty to care and help the person attain the highest sense of self possible. This physical body is deceiving, it is tied to time and space. The mind however, is not. It is important to treat all of these realms.