Health: a state - adaptation due to successful coping with stressors
a process - responding positively to environmental changes

Illness: ineffective coping on a continuum from death toward adaptation

Environment: external surroundings and influences that affect a person's development

Nursing: Foster sucessful coping through manipulation of stimuli. It can help man adapt to changes in his physiological needs, self-concept, role function, and interdependent relations during health and illness

Humanism: it is believed that the individual	Veritivity: believed that the individual in society is seen in the perspective of
Shares in creative power	Purposefulness of human existence
Behaves with determination, not in an order of cause and effect	Unity of humankind purpose
Holds intrinsic holism	Activity and creativity for humankind
Aims to uphold integrity and to recognize the need for relationships	Value and meaning of existence