My nursing philosophy is that the concept of nursing should be taken as caring. With caring, the love to educate and patience to understand our patients will come along.  Human caring is to feel concern about.  It is that feeling you get when a friend is hurt; a family member is sick; and you get the urge to care for them.  It is the desire to help and be there for someone.  It is treating others with love, compassion because it is just a natural thing to do.  I like Dr. Watson’s definition of human caring that says “caring begins with being present, open to compassion, mercy, gentleness, loving-kindness, and equanimity toward and with self before one can offer compassionate care to others” (Watson, 2008. p 18).  As nurses, we employ practices that are restorative, supportive in nature.  It is also imperative for a nurse to know their specific duties and commitment, therefore the social purpose of nursing practice is to guide nurses in the application of their professional skills and responsibility and accountability to the society that it serves. I mostly work in the dementia unit at my facility, if one day I go to work and I cannot find time to feed at least one resident I do not feel right.  Meal time at a nursing home facility is most of the times the only opportunity nurses have to interact with resident that are not on the 24 hour report.  The scope of practice describes the “who, what, where, when, why and how of nursing practice.  As defined by the Nursing’s Social Policy Statement, (Second Edition (2003), nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities and populations.  To be able to carry all the functions of nursing, it is important for one to be a caring person.