The individual is a thinking, feeling, interacting, evolving, creating, valuing being. Families are individuals dynamically connected with each other over time in traditional and non-traditional configurations. Communities are groups of people with one or more common characteristics who are in relationship to one another and may or may not interact. Health is comparative, dynamic, multidimensional and has personal meaning. It includes disease, non-disease and quality of life.
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.