Nursing Mission at Riverside Manor and Rehabilitation Center
The mission statement for Riverside Manor and Rehabilitation Center (RSM) “is to provide the highest quality of healthcare while being recognized as the leader in providing personalized services and care in our area” (Riverside Manor, 2015). The rehab unit mission is home away from home. The …show more content…
Under this nursing model, the patient care, treatments, and services are directed around the individualize patient. This model ensures that each patient receives quality continuous care (Huber, 2014). The resident that come into the facility are asked about their preferences such as the following: doctors, test, bathing, food, bedtime ect. These questions help to develop a patient-centered care plan. The pros to this type of nursing model is that patients have better outcomes, higher patient satisfaction, improved communication, and share responsibilities from all areas in the facility. The cons is that patient-centered care is costly, requires constant commitment from all team members, and lacks follow up accountability. Under patient-center care there are many hands involved in the care of the resident, people at times lacks accountability (Matuszewski, …show more content…
Nurses provide personal care and are the ones with the residents on a daily basis. They know the residents conditions and pick up on any change. Nurses have a major influence on their residents’ lives. Nurses need to have good communication skills with residents, physicians, and managers to ensure that the organizations mission statement is upheld. By staying up on current education and procedures, nurses are able to have better decision making skills, and allows for accountability. In conclusion, an organizational mission determines the type of care patients should expect to receive. RSM mission is to provide patient-center quality care. Nurses strength the mission statement through education and communication. A great mission statement only occurs when the nurses hold a residents care to that standard. The nurse leaders help to uphold the mission of the facility through being patient advocates and evaluating staff for quality care. An organization is only as good as its structure, nursing model, leaders, and staff members (Huber,