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...... The concept of person as distinct from both nurse and patient reflects the subjective or aesthetic side of nursing, the perceived importance of which has been diminished greatly by recent scholarship (Fawcett 2006). The nurse is often expected to act and react only with empirical information, however personal knowledge is considered equally as important by many nurse educators and researchers (Chinn & Kramer 2004). This also helps to explain why health and environment are considered distinct major components in the metastudy of nursing; both can be understood on highly subjective terms, with the concept of good health changing from patient to patient, or person to person. Environment, too, has a major effect on the practice of nursing and the growth of the nursing body of knowledge

3) My personal philosophy of nursing centers on the belief that each individual person under my care deserves full attention and the unique application of my knowledge in addressing their immediate and long-term needs and concerns. That is, each person should benefit as much as possible from the full extent of my nursing knowledge, while still being treated as an individual person. The environment is made up of the persons setting during nursing

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