People have the right to participate in decisions affecting and effecting personal health. Environment includes all living and non-living dimensions with which the individual, family and community have interrelationships. The dynamic environmental interrelations define and establish rules for health and modes of action. Nursing is an art and a science. The discipline of nursing is concerned with individual, family, and community and their responses to health within the context of the changing health care environment.
Professional nursing includes the appraisal and the enhancement of health.
Personal meanings of health are understood in the nursing situation within the context of familial, societal and cultural meanings. The professional nurse uses knowledge from theories and research in nursing and other disciplines in providing nursing care The role of the nurse involves the exercise of social, cultural and political responsibilities, including accountability for professional actions, provision of quality nursing care and community involvement. Education is an individualized, life-long process. Learning includes the individual's interrelations with the environment, knowledge and skill acquisition, development of critical thinking, and self awareness. Self-expression enables the student to respond to clients who have unique human values and cultural heritage.