Nursing Philosophy

At Memorial Medical Center, our Vision is to provide quality, compassionate carethrough traditional and innovative Nursing Excellence.

Nursing Excellence. Every Patient. Every Time.

• Clinical Quality: We believe nursing excellence leads to quality care, achievable through

1. Relationship Based Care

2. Patient safety

3. Performance Excellence

4. Evidenced-Based Practice

5. Accrediting and regulatory compliance

6. A multidisciplinary team approach

7. The nursing process

8. A collaborative continuum of care partnering with physicians

9. Autonomy

10. Employee, patient and community education

• Service Excellence: We believe in an environment that fosters respect among our

patients, physicians and coworkers, achievable through:

1. Individualized patient/family centered focused care

2. Caring, Compassion and Confidence

3. Professionalism: RN’s as Role Models

4. Specialized knowledge and expertise

5. Patient advocate coordinating care through all disciplines

6. Collaborative effort with Physicians to promote positive patient outcomes

7. Maintaining Patient Privacy

8. Lean Team initiatives

9. Patient/family education

10. Meeting community needs through education, program participation

• Fiscal Soundness:

1. Collaboration with other disciplines to provide cost –efficient care

2. Innovative ideas and implementation reduce costs

3. Fiscal education

4. Optimal RN-to-patient ratio

5. Recruitment and retention of highly motivated professional nurses

6. Educational reimbursement

7. Lean Team initiatives

If our philosophy reflects the nurse you are and want to be, click here to learn more

nursing opportunities available at MMC.

Contact Information:

For more information, contact Linda Fox, RN at lfox@conemaugh.org or (814)-534-3738

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