Nursing Division Mission
To provide family-centered care emphasizing nursing excellence, respect, and compassion.
Nursing Division Vision
To develop an interdisciplinary, supportive environment where nursing is empowered to assist patients in improving their lives, therefore, impacting the community as a whole.
Our Nursing Values ensure…
- Nurturing: nurse experts passing along their wisdom, caring, and confidence in order to guide new nurses in their professional, personal and interpersonal growth
- Accountable: to be answerable to oneself and others for one’s own actions
- Teamwork: an essential for patient safety and quality of care
- Integrity: respecting the dignity and moral wholeness of every person without conditions or limitation
- Visionary: views nursing as both an art and a science by promoting caring and competence as the link between science and humanity
- Innovative: conversion of knowledge and ideas into meaningful work through creativity, entrepreneurship, and pushing beyond the boundaries of status quo
- Dignity: advocacy role in preserving human dignity throughout the continuum of care, more focused on aspects of privacy, respect, and autonomy
- Autonomy: authority to make decisions and the freedom to act in accordance with one’s professional knowledge base
- Diversity: affirming the uniqueness of and differences among persons, ideas, values, and ethnicities
…. in the work we do every day.
Natividad Nursing Strategic Plan: 2017–2019