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Empowerment
The process of helping patients, families and nurses in becoming stronger and more confident in gaining control over their own decisions by promoting self awareness, assertiveness and confidence in their own capacities
Quality and Safety
Enhancing patient and Family’s impression of quality and safety measures embedded throughout the patient care experience
Professionalism
Entails courtesy honesty, responsabilities and the care values of nursing excellence with a focus on patient centered care
Advocacy
The protection, promotion, and optimization of a patients’s health and abilities. The Nurse Advocate provides information and supports the patient’s decisions objectively
Evidence-based
The careful use of current best research, clinical expertise and patient preferences to guide health care and improve patient outcomes.
Nurses at Natividad understand the importance of the patient, family, and community being the main focus of our nursing practice and each of these five core beliefs supports our efforts to achieve the best outcomes for them. Through patient, families and nursing empowerment, a commitment to patient safety, the use of evidence-based practice, patient advocacy and professionalism, we will strive to optimize our scope of practice and excellent patient, family and community care.
