Person, Health, Environment and Nursing

The Human Becoming as it relates to:

• Client/Person
• Health
• Environment
• Nursing

Person

“Open being who is more than and different from the sum of parts.” (Masters, 2012, p. 269)

Health

• Health is defined as “a way of being in the world”.  (McEwen & Wills, 2011, p. 195)
•  Open process of being and becoming. Involves synthesis of values.

Environment

• Environment and the person are inseparable.
•  Environment is seen as the entire universe. Parse considered the “human-universe process as mutual, not cause and effect” (Libster, 2008, p. 169)

Nursing

• A human science and art that uses an abstract body of knowledge to help people.
• Nursing’s role is to guide individuals and families to “uncover meaning and plan for changes in health using their own definitions of health”(Martsolf & Mickley, 1998, p. 299).