Elements of Professional Nursing Practice at St. Vincent
Hospital
CARING
- Caring involves the protection, enhancement, and preservation
of human dignity.
- Caring is being the patient/family advocate and promoting
patient/family satisfaction with care.
- Caring requires from me a personal, professional, social,
moral, ethical, and spiritual engagement.
- Caring is a knowledgeable, deliberative intervention, not
an emotional response.
- Nurses need to learn, understand, acknowledge, and integrate
in practice the values, beliefs, and habits of diverse cultural
and sub-cultural orientations.
- Nurses need to care for and support one another as they care
for their patients.
- There is a place for humor in health care and healing.
ACCOUNTABILITY
- Nurses are accountable to the patient/family, the health-care
team, the organization, and myself.
- Accountability includes developing and maintaining current
nursing knowledge and skills through formal and continuing
education and, where appropriate, seeking certification in
my area of practice.
- Accountability enbraces practice based
upon the profession’s code of ethics, standards of practice
and legal regulations.
- Competency is inherent in the practice of nursing and includes
awareness of my own limitations.
- Nursing is accountable for evidence- based and supports positive
clinical outcomes.
COMMUNICATION
- Creating an environment that supports effective, respectful,
and honest communication.
- Applying therapeutic communication relevant to the beliefs
and value system of those receiving care.
- The effectiveness of the nurse and patient/family relationship
is dependent upon the ability to collaborate with all members
of the health-care team.
- Communication includes supporting relationships with colleagues
through respectful, clear, accurate, and timely written and
verbal communication.
LEARNING-TEACHING
- Critical thinking skills must be applied to assess, plan,
implement, and evaluate care specific to the individuality
of those receiving care.
- The learning-teaching process is an ongoing, dynamic, interpersonal
process whereby both the learner and teacher grow.
- The nurse facilitates health promotion, maintenance, and
optimal health functioning.
MANAGEMENT/LEADERSHIP
- The patient/family is at the center of all decision making.
- Management and leadership skills are essential elements of
nursing practice through which nurses’ offer and deliver
high quality health care to individuals, families, groups,
and communities.
- Leadership includes being accountable for maximizing resources
in the delivery of patient care.
- Leadership skills involve self-reflection, understanding
human processes, and envisioning possibilities for enriching
people’s lives.
St Vincent Nurses Leading the Way,Care
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