Person-hood can be considered on individual, family and community levels. The person is sentient with multiple dimensions including individuality and embodiment. A human being is evolving, in process, fluid, and changing. Each person or social group has purpose, promise, and potential for continuing transformations. The social and cultural environment for the person, family, or community reflects multiple values and social-political perspectives.
Nurses recognize both the commonalities and differences of people.
Humankind is moving from an ethnocentric to global perspective. The person is capable of choice and has free will tempered by the context of one's past, present, and future. The individual is inherently good, has rights, and is self-directed. At the same time, each person recognizes the rights of others and works toward increasing freedom and emancipation for self and other persons. Conflicting rights are to be resolved, resulting in balancing and harmony.