Wasatch CNA Center
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Mission Statement Chapter Nine
Vision Statement Mission Statement In an environment that is accountable, respectful, adaptive, and innovative, the Wasatch CNA Center supports our mission and is committed to:
The Wasatch CNA Center prepares students to qualify for the State of Utah Certified Nursing Assistant exams, in preparation to work as a professional nursing assistant in Utah. We educate our students in an environment of accountability, respect, excellence and service, to change lives, and to provide proactive leadership to improve the profession of nursing assistance, to eliminate disparities in education, and to advance the nursing assistance profession.
Providing evidence-based nursing assistance education
Developing, testing, and disseminating nursing assistance and personal and professional development information and knowledge
Demonstrating excellence in nursing assistance practice
Sharing expertise and leadership through service to professional organizations and communities
Promoting inter-professional teamwork competencies in collaborative educational environments
Philosophy
The Wasatch CNA Center is responsible for the education of nursing assistants. The philosophy of the Wasatch CNA Center embodies the concepts of nursing assistance, and health as well as nursing assistant education and nursing assistance practice.
Developing, testing, and disseminating nursing assistance and personal and professional development information and knowledge
Demonstrating excellence in nursing assistance practice
Sharing expertise and leadership through service to professional organizations and communities
Promoting inter-professional teamwork competencies in collaborative educational environments
Philosophy
The Wasatch CNA Center is responsible for the education of nursing assistants. The philosophy of the Wasatch CNA Center embodies the concepts of nursing assistance, and health as well as nursing assistant education and nursing assistance practice.
Nursing Assistants certification permits its members to enter and improve the lives of individuals, families and communities for purposes of healing, learning, and adaptation. Operating within professional value systems and ethical frameworks, nursing assistants work independently and collaboratively with other health providers. They assume accountability and responsibility for the delivery of evidence-based, cost-effective nursing assistance care. Nursing assistants incorporate the concept of diversity in practice and in relations with the communities they serve and their fellow workers.
The Wasatch CNA Center faculty facilitates learning environments in which students assimilate and apply scientific and humanistic knowledge and experience, and develop self-awareness, self-direction, creativity and critical thinking. The faculty is responsible for providing a respectful environment conducive to learning and to serve as role models of professional nursing assistance practice.
Core Values ___________________________________
Professionalism is represented by the adoption of core values as part of a nursing assistance’s commitment to competency, consistency, compassion in practice, and the highest standards of care in the ethical conduct of nursing assistance. 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 thedevelopment of evidence-based nursing assistance.
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 nursing assistant in all of the settings and relationships in which nursing assistants 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 nursing assistants 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 nursing assistance 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 nursing assistant’s commitment to fairness and action to secure the full participation of patients, families and communities in their health care. Nursing assistants 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 nursing assistant incorporates this value in every aspect of one’s personal and professional life, and in the care of one’s patients.
Leadership: Professional leadership is active participation and progressive responsibility in organizational activities related to nursing, health care, or education.
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 nursing assistant in all of the settings and relationships in which nursing assistants 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 nursing assistants 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 nursing assistance 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 nursing assistant’s commitment to fairness and action to secure the full participation of patients, families and communities in their health care. Nursing assistants 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 nursing assistant incorporates this value in every aspect of one’s personal and professional life, and in the care of one’s patients.
Leadership: Professional leadership is active participation and progressive responsibility in organizational activities related to nursing, health care, or education.
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