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.
Nursing Division Values
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
Accountability – 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 limitations
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.