Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.

Nursing care for individuals of all ages and cultural background who are healthy and all in a holistic manner based on the individuals physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs. Nursing combines physical science, social science, nursing theories and technology in caring for those individuals.

The complexity of the people’s health care needs requires the collective knowledge skills and actions of nursing. Nursing makes its own unique contribution to the collective pool of various disciplines.