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HUP's Nursing Philosophy

Nurses at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) are committed to providing patients and their families with safe, high quality, individualized, evidence-based, and fiscally responsible nursing care. Our philosophy is driven by the pursuit of achieving excellence in the delivery of care and is influenced by education, experience, and research.

We believe that nursing care is focused on the needs of patients and families. HUP professional nurses practice autonomously under an Integrated Primary Nursing care delivery model. The model is Patient and family focused, Evidenced based, Accountable, Coordinated, and Continuous (PEACC). The nurse-patient/family relationship established by the primary nurse, in partnership with the interdisciplinary team, serves as a foundation for providing a holistic approach to treating the patient/family throughout the care continuum and across the life span. We believe that patients and families, and the nurses who provide patient/family care have rights and responsibilities. Nurses at HUP assure many of the elements in the Patient's Bill of Rights and are guided by the ANA Code of Ethics.

We believe that compliance with standards of care, set by nationally recognized professional organizations, contribute to our objective of continually improving the quality of patient/family care. We monitor nursing sensitive indicators and benchmark our performance through participation in numerous national data bases which include the ANA National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators. We also recognize that the measurement of patient satisfaction is an important tool for monitoring the patient experience in an effort to improve the care we provide.

We embrace our HUP Nursing Excellence in Professional Practice Model, which incorporates a Shared Governance structure. Through formally established councils, professional nurses have the ability to facilitate recommendations and make decisions that pertain to nursing practice and quality; and, in so doing, professional nurses assume full accountability for their practice. We recognize it is the responsibility of nurse leaders and clinical nurses to collaborate in an effort to create and sustain healthy and respectful work environments. We support the individual's right to express differing views through appropriate means and we encourage and support intellectual debate and discourse. We believe that communication should flow bi-directionally and the information and knowledge of unit, departmental and corporate affairs must be exchanged throughout the organization.

We believe that by working collaboratively with partners of other disciplines and departments, the Department of Nursing supports HUP in maintaining its reputation as a world class patient care organization, a center of excellence and an employer of choice. Finally, we believe, as an academic health center, we have a shared mission of advancing knowledge and improving patient care through translational and innovative research, ever changing technology, and lifelong learning for nurses and the other members of the health care team.

 


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