Professional Development Framework:
Design Team Guiding Principles
The initial Framework design in 2003 was accomplished by a group of 40 nurses that represented a microcosm of our vast nursing community. The diversity within the group included recent graduate to seasoned nurse, adult to pediatrics, general care to ICU, Specialty clinics to Home Care, Staff Nurse to CNS, and Supervisors to Managers and Directors. As groundwork for the immense task at hand, the team together defined the following Guiding Principles.
Guiding Principles:
Culture
- Nurture a culture that is supportive and rewards and recognizes professional achievement
Collaborative Creation
- Continually evolve through collaborative efforts of nurses within our nursing community
- Recognize that people can only support what they help to create
- Encourage input and involvement of the community in our open process
Opportunity
- Provide new professional opportunities that will be accessible to all nurses from novice to expert
- Identify clinical and academic opportunities that will promote careers, enhance life-long learning, and add value to the organization
- Support nurses in their individualized goals for professional development
- Provide opportunity for role expansion at the unit level with an overall goal of enhanced patient care
Retention
- Will recognize the value of retaining UM Nurses
Communication
- Encourage and depend upon open, supportive dialogue that is respectful and professional
Shared Responsibility
- View professional development as a shared responsibility of the individual nurse and the organization
Work Life
- Support the concept that our roles sometimes change as work is completed
- Empower, excite and allow for opportunities that provide flexibility, job satisfaction, and work/life balance
- Create a mechanism for the development of future nursing leaders
Nursing Practice
- Emphasize patient outcomes and professional accountability.
- Promote the advancement of professional standards and will facilitate evidenced-based practice.
- Provide care that is patient and family centered.
Leadership
- Create revolutionary opportunities for nurses to be leaders
Diversity
- Depend on the diversity of the UMHS Nursing community as we create and move forward with our new professional framework
Maintenance and Sustainability
- Build-in a process for continuous evaluation and improvement
- Commit to a process that ensures the integrity of the model is maintained
- Create a flexible framework that will sustain itself as a dynamic system free of growth restraints
Fiscal Responsibility
- Be fiscally responsible
Empowerment
Operate from an empowerment model, not only at the individual level, but also at the community level
Target Audience:UMHS Nurses | Author/Contact: Stephanie Minerath
Last reviewed: 11/14/11
Last reviewed: 11/14/11
