There are also assumptions made in the model. They are:
The focus of nursing is the care of the human being (patient).
The goal of nursing is the health care of both individuals and groups.
Human beings are open systems interacting with their environments constantly.
The nurse and patient communicate information, set goals mutually, and then act to achieve those goals. This is also the basic assumption of the nursing process.
Patients perceive the world as a complete person making transactions with individuals and things in the environment.
Transaction represents a life situation in which the perceiver and the thing being perceived are encountered. It also represents a life situation in which a person enters the situation as an active participant. Each is changed in the process of these experiences