There is constant interaction between the client and environment. Environment refers to all internal and external conditions, circumstances, and influences that interact and affect the client's holistic health. As part of the client's environment, the professional nurse assists with the client's attainment of holistic health and promotes safety. Holistic health, a state of wholeness and a process of becoming increasingly integrated, is associated with evolving awareness of self and enhanced quality of life. The nurse and client form a partnership, and both are informed and flexible in negotiations to promote the client's holistic health.
Nursing is both an art and a science.
The nursing process is utilized to provide evidence based nursing care across the lifespan. Essential to the profession of nursing, caring is a dynamic process that is person centered and requires a connection in a specific moment of coming together. Professional nursing involves forming a collaborative relationship with clients and other health professionals to facilitate clients' growth and life processes through effective communication and therapeutic nursing interventions. Professional nursing practice is community based, provides for continuity of care, and utilizes a primary health care framework to provide the levels of care required by the client. The goal of nursing is to promote, protect, and restore the client's holistic health.