Vision & Mission

Nursing Vision

Exceptional Nurses Delivering Extraordinary Care While Advancing Practice

Nursing Mission
Nursing, as the strength and foundation of patient care, brings compassion, advocacy, resilience and excellence to patients, families, colleagues and communities of care.

Compassion—ensuring a caring, healing environment
Advocacy—delivering patient, family and community-centered care
Resilience—relying on inter-professional, collaborative teamwork
Excellence—leading and innovating high quality, evidence-based care

Our Professional Nursing Practice Model

View our Essentia Health Professional Nursing Practice Model [PDF].

Guiding Principles & Philosophy

Guiding Principles

We, as nurses,

• Believe that our mission is to provide science-based, technologically precise, safe, high quality, compassionate, relationship-based patient and family-centered care.
• Define nursing as a scientific discipline that takes a holistic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of potential and actual responses to illness.
• Promote comfort and healing with the goal of lessening the effects of illness by assisting patients to achieve an optimal level of self-care.
• Practice in a dynamic healthcare system which promotes lifelong learning for all health professionals.
• Accept professional accountability to patients, families, colleagues, and the community.
• Believe that we best serve through collaboration and coordination with other healthcare professionals throughout the continuum of care by treating and advocating for those in need.
• Commit ourselves to support, acknowledge and nurture one another, thereby creating a culture of teamwork, professional development, mutual respect and caring.

Philosophy

Building on our greatest strengths, nurses, and the inter-professional teams, we will develop a new standard of excellence in integrated patient care, research and education while advancing the practice and professional role of Nursing.

This will be accomplished while attending to the following priorities: providing safe, evidence-based patient and family centered care and making a difference in the quality of life and health for patients and families now, and for generations to come. 

The Professional Governance Model is being adopted by Essentia Health Nursing leadership as a method to facilitate staff consultation and participation in decision-making processes.  The Professional Governance model will:

1. Optimize the participation of nursing staff members in the decision-making processes when appropriate
2. Promote collegial relationships
3. Aim to generate consensus in professional practice matters 

Learn more about nursing roles at Essentia Health.