Core Values
Professionalism is represented by the adoption of core values as part of a professional commitment to competency, consistency, compassion in practice, and the highest standards of care in the ethical conduct of health care delivery. The following are the core values shared by the faculty and reflected in the Wasatch CNA Center’s programs.
Scholarship: Scholarship is the discovery, translation, application, integration, and transmission of knowledge, which contributes to the development of evidence-based health care delivery.
Diversity: Diversity is the recognition and inclusion of human variation in the education and care of individuals, families, communities, and nations.  It is shaped by the historical forces of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, language, religion, sexual orientation, abilities, ages, and geographical regions.
Service: Service is a commitment to participate in organizational activities and processes that benefit the Wasatch CNA Center, facilities, hospitals, communities, and the profession. Service is viewed as essential to developing, maintaining, and sustaining the structure and relationships that are critical to the profession.
Caring: Caring is central to the health and healing processes, and is intrinsic in the therapeutic nature of person-centered care. Caring is predicated upon mutual respect, and it engenders trust in implementing the role of the health care professional in all of the settings and relationships in which providers contribute to society.
Creativity: Creativity requires an innovative and futuristic perspective, openness to change, and continuous personal and professional development in order to respond to the dynamic and fluid nature of current health care and educational environments.
Empowerment: Empowerment emerges as individuals develop the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and other resources they need to determine their own learning and health care needs and to assume a primary role in their learning and health care activities, building upon their individual capacities and experiences.
Collaboration: Collaboration involves effective teamwork and relationships based on trust, respect, shared resources, a commitment to joint goals, and mutual satisfaction, in which health care professionals work with and learn from individuals, communities, and colleagues across other professions.
Advocacy: Advocacy includes actions for health policies, programs, and practices to secure the highest level of care, education, and research necessary for societal health and well-being, while educating health care providers in the values of advocacy for themselves and their patients.
Equity: Equity is the state, action, and principle of treating all persons in a just and unbiased manner. It includes attention to the social determinants of health, and a health care provider's commitment to fairness and action to secure the full participation of patients, families and communities in their health care. Health care providers strive for equity in health service access, content, and quality of care to end discrimination and disparities in health outcomes.
Integrity: Integrity refers to the quality of being honest and ethical and having the moral strength to do the right thing. The health care provider incorporates this value in every aspect of one’s personal and professional life, and in the care of one’s patients.