The nurse carries personal responsibility for practice and for maintaining continued competence. Nurses have the right to use all appropriate nursing interventions and have the obligation to determine the efficacy and safety of all nursing actions. Wherever applicable, nurses use research findings in directing practice. The nurse plays a role in determining and implementing desirable standards of nursing practice and education. Holistic nurses may assume a leadership position to guide the profession towards holism.
Nurses support nursing research and the development of holistically oriented nursing theories.
The nurse participates in establishing and maintaining equitable social and economic working conditions in nursing. The nurse, along with other citizens, has the responsibility for initiating and supporting actions to meet the health and social needs of the public. The nurse strives to manipulate the client's environment to become one of peace, harmony, and nurturance so that healing may take place. The nurse considers the health of the ecosystem in relation to the need for health, safety, and peace of all persons. Thus every individual can be viewed as having three components body, mind, and spirit that interconnect in making the whole.