Patient Care Services Plan at SJRMC

I. MISSION STATEMENT

The mission for Nursing Services is to deliver quality care based on individualized needs of patients and their families.

We support the mission of San Juan Regional Medical Center to personalize healthcare and create enthusiasm and vitality in healing.

II. PHILOSOPHY

We shall treat each patient as an individual, recognizing cultural, religious and social needs while including the patient and family in our plan of care.

We respect the patient's and family's right to make choices regarding life and death. We shall assist with education in regard to these choices and shall support the patient in a non-judgmental manner.

We believe in the values of empathy, patience, kindness and mutual trust and respect, and shall incorporate these values in our care to the best of our ability.

We believe in the patient's right to competence from the nurses caring for him/her, and will exercise our competence as the patient's advocate in the provision of quality health care.

We respect each other as caring, competent professionals/colleagues. We realize that change is inevitable and expect input and involvement in patient care, nursing and organizational change.

We commit to the education and socialization of nurses new to our profession and/or our facility, realizing they will provide care to our community in the future.

III. VISION

To be recognized as progressive healthcare professionals who deliver personalized care with respect and dignity for all.

V. ORGANIZATION

A. Hospital
SJRMC is licensed for 168 acute beds.

B. Patient Care Services/Nursing Leadership

atient Care Services are organized under the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and the Department of Nursing Administration.

Patient Care Services include medical, surgical, urology/nephrology, intensive or critical care, perioperative, and maternal-child nursing service/practice areas, as well as, Central Sterile Processing and Distribution Services, Pastoral Care, ED, EMS, AirCare, Trauma Services, and Behavioral Health. The CNO is an RN licensed in New Mexico and employed on a full-time basis. The Vice President is responsible and accountable to the President/CEO for the provision of high quality nursing care according to the "definition." The CNO is a member of the senior administrative team or Senior Management Council and attends Board of Director meetings and functions to represent nursing interests.

VI. NURSING SERVICES

RN's, in collaboration with other disciplines, coordinate the plan of care of every patient. RN's prescribe the nursing care of every patient and educate, administer, supervise, delegate tasks and evaluate nursing practice as it relates to the identified health care needs of the patient and family/significant other.

Nursing Services are supported by a model for professional practice based on shared responsibility and accountability. Partners in Care provides the structure for the functions of nursing to be accomplished while the Bylaws of Partners in Care govern the structure.

The organized delivery of patient care and nursing practice is defined and managed by professional nursing through contributions to committees and task forces using the shared decision-making principles of partnership, equity and ownership. (see Bylaws).