Our Environment

Nurses at Children’s work in a diverse, family-centered, collaborative environment that operates under a “Shared Leadership” model focusing on evidence-based nursing practice and research. Children’s nursing staff always aims to provide optimal care and achieve excellent patient outcomes in an error-free setting.

Shared Nursing Leadership
Our “shared leadership” model empowers and engages staff to partner in decision-making, implementation and evaluation of care.

Shared Nursing Leadership councils include the Practice Council, defining clinical standards utilizing evidence-based practice; Resource Council, establishing priorities for human and fiscal resources; Innovation Council, producing strategies by using creative and critical thinking; Professional Development Council, defining professional standards, promoting autonomy in practice and encouraging career development; Clinical Improvement and Research Council, applying performance improvement methodologies to link nursing practice to clinical outcomes, identify nursing research opportunities and create a culture of nursing excellence through evidence-based practice; and the Collaborative Forum, coordinating activities of the councils.

Family-Centered Care
At Children’s, our healthcare team is dedicated to providing world-class care in a safe, family-centered environment. We respect and encourage parents’ involvement in the medical care of their child.

What Family-Centered Care means:

• Our team treats patients and families with dignity and respect.
• We share information to ensure each family is involved in a child’s medical care and decisions.
• We encourage parents to participate in their child’s care and value parent input during their child’s visit to Children’s.

Diversity
Like the patients and families they treat, nurses at Children’s are highly diverse in culture, language and religion. The Professional Development Council ensures that each month, nurses receive diversity awareness training. With this awareness comes more sensitivity, thereby enabling Children’s nurses to better relate to patients and other members of the care team.

Collaboration
Nurses at Children’s provide necessary support for physicians and enable them to excel at expert care. Together they work as a team that is based on mutual respect for one anothers’ clinical expertise. This collaborative relationship makes it possible for both groups of professionals to provide state-of-the-art care and always put the needs of children first.