Overview

Memorial Hospital’s nursing and ancillary staff demonstrate daily our core values of kindness, respect, excellence, safety, and teamwork.

It’s these values, along with our mission of providing exceptional health care and compassionate service, that make Memorial thrive. Nursing is the backbone of patient care in a hospital. Nursing professionals see the whole patient and have the clinical, communication, and emotional support skills that are vital to great patient care and superior outcomes.

Nursing mission statement

To create a caring environment for patients and families through excellence in the art and science of nursing.

Values

Our nurses believe:

Integration of the patient’s and their family’s spiritual, cultural, emotional, and physical priorities in the care plan provides a holistic approach to patient-centered care.
Commitment to professional accountability, evidence-based care, innovation, and research dissemination strengthen professional nursing practice and serves as the foundation for exceptional health care.
Collaboration and teamwork must be fostered to assure multidisciplinary coordination of care and achievement of desired patient- and family specific outcomes.
A culture of caring and nurturing of self, colleagues, and patient and family relationships foster compassionate service and leads to optimal patient outcomes and a high level of staff engagement.