title: Building a mission for quality care.
abstract: Clearly, there is a benefit to the group process in helping to establish teamwork. Teamwork and cooperation can assist with promoting effective communication, improving work quality, and building a sense of well-being within the group. With this cooperation, setting goals and looking toward the future can become a reality. Once goals are set, then developing a professional image can begin. Developing a mission statement can be an effective means to help create that professional image. Having the opportunity to develop a mission for a patient care area and articulating it through a mission statement coalesces the values, beliefs, and philosophy of a group of neuroscience staff. The following is the mission statement developed by the neurosciences unit at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics: We, the staff of UWHC Neuroscience unit embrace a vision of excellence in health care for all. Our mission is to deliver consistent quality patient care, while fostering our own professional growth. As caring healers, teachers and patient advocates in an ever-changing health care environment, we are empowered by the code for nurses. Within our scope of practice, we strive to maintain a balance of basic human respect and dignity for patients and their families in their quest for wellness, adaptation, rehabilitation or comfort care. It is our hope that patients and families will work with the health care team to construct a plan of care that best meets the patient's needs and goals. We are committed to accommodate special communication, religious or cultural needs of patients and their families. Our final acknowledgment is to ourselves, as members of the health care team. We celebrate the dignity of the staff by recognizing each individual as a special person capable of making unique and significant contributions to the unit.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison 53792, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006040:Goals; D006126:Group Processes; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009488:Neurosciences; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014922:Wisconsin