Environment Environment consists of both internal and external forces surrounding the client, at any point in time, as an open system. The created environment is an unconsciously developed protective environment that binds systems energy and encompasses both the internal and external client environments. Nursing Nursing is a unique, evolving profession. The art and science of nursing are grounded in knowledge from the nursing discipline as well as the physical, biological and social sciences and the humanities. Nurses assist individuals, families, groups and communities to attain, retain and maintain a maximum level of wellness by purposeful preventions aimed toward facilitating adaptive mechanisms or decreasing stress responses.
Stressors are inherent in human existence.
Nursing activities are organized within the nursing process framework. This framework is a detailed, problem-solving, critical thinking model employed in determining the need for nursing prevention and provision of care. Nurses assist the individual, family, group or community, through both independent and collaborative practice, in the promotion of wellness, prevention of illness, recovery from or adaptation to illness and achievement of a peaceful death. The evolving role of professional nursing makes it imperative that nurses be involved in health maintenance and health promotion in a variety of health and community settings. The nurses responsibility as client advocate necessitates a leadership role in the health care team.