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Organization and Unit Mission, Vision and Values; Shared Governance

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Organization and Unit Mission, Vision and Values; Shared Governance

Mission statements tend to define why an organization is in existence and what they are.

Healthcare organizations have their mission and vision statements and sets of values that serve to

identify with the organization culture. It is imperative for all physicians to have a mission

statement in a hospital that adds to the organization direction. The mission statement of the

nurses is incorporated in the organization to help realize the primary mission and vision of the

hospital. The paper focuses on the nursing mission of Cleveland Clinic nurses and expounds on

the philosophy of working at the organization.

For every nurse, putting the patient first and delivering quality services has been the

objective. The Cleveland Clinic works to benefit patients through quality service delivery.

Cleveland Clinic (2018) mission statement reads as “Better care of the sick, investigation into

their problems and further education to those that serve" and has been founded on the hospital

commitment to all patients through education, research, and employee education. The hospital

philosophy works to embedding the mission and vision statements in the nursing department.

The mission for the Cleveland hospital nursing unit is ‘to use our skills, compassion, and

knowledge to enable us to bring changes to those we serve. The nursing vision for the Cleveland

Hospital is ‘to be a leader of excellence in nursing education, leadership, practice, and research.’

The philosophy of the nursing unit is achieved through accountability, patient-centered care,

creativity and innovation and fostering an enabling environment. The mission statement is

similar to the hospital mission statement in that both are focused on leadership and providing the

best services. The difference comes in the philosophy part where nursing philosophy is more
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centered on their services while that of the organization is focused on competing with other

hospitals.

Meeting the unit mission and goals are crucial to every hospital. At Cleveland hospital,

every nurse has their set goals and objectives that add up to the mission of the unit. Every nurse

then will have to meet the targets that are set by the departments to ensure the organization goals

of Cleveland Clinic are achieved. Every nurse is encouraged to have career goals and be focused

on what they can control. My role in meeting the unit mission and objectives will be to ensure I

adhere to the mission statement and develop my career goals with the mission of the nursing

unit. Being confident and being active on teamwork.

The Cleveland hospital nursing unit uses a decentralized organization structure.

Healthcare institutions present a multidisciplinary practice where the doctors, therapists, nurses,

and pharmacists need to interact and implore decision-making practices. The nurses need to chat

the best decision to take on a patient which enhances more collaboration in achieving the

department goals (Fleiszer et al. 2015). The decentralized structure can be able to deal with

different situations that arise in Cleveland hospital since the main focus is team management and

use of expertise from different nurses. The decentralized structure also proves time-consuming

when it comes to coordination of multiple departments in Cleveland Hospital.

Shared governance in Cleveland clinic helps the nurses to engage decision making on

issues that affect the quality improvement, research, professional development and nursing

practice (Newman 2011). Shared governance helps to create and manage change in every

organization. Shared governance is subjected to the vision, mission and shared values of every

organization. Instituting a philosophy that checks on the mission, vision and value statement in
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an organization is essential. Every employee will have to meet the set goals and objectives in the

organization to ensure the mission and vision of the hospital are achieved. Cleveland nurses are

at the forefront of delivering the hospital mission and vision through a decentralized nursing

model that focuses on teamwork. The structure of the nursing model is critical towards the

success of the organization.

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References

Cleveland Clinic. (2018). Mission, Vision, Values. Retrieved from

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/about/overview/who-we-are/mission-vision-values

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