Our nurses create an environment that surpasses the expectations of patients looking for high-quality, compassionate care and attracts nurses looking to engage in collaborative, leading-edge medicine where autonomy, innovation and nursing excellence prevail.
Andrea S. Miller, Chief Nursing Officer of UChicago Medicine AdventHealth
Nursing Is the Foundation of Whole-Person Care
Nurses are the heart of healthcare, and at UChicago Medicine AdventHealth, our award-winning nurses go above and beyond. Nurses leave a lasting impression on the people they care for and their families.
Through Magnet Recognition®, professional development and innovative programs, our nursing teams feel supported and empowered to provide the highest quality healthcare. They deliver compassionate care to our patients every day.
Happy nurses result in happier and healthier patients, and we’re committed to delivering the highest quality patient care for years to come.
Our Vision, Values and Strategic Plans
- Nursing Vision, Values and Philosophy
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Our Vision
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale and La Grange nurses will be faith-based healthcare leaders in providing clinical and service excellence.
Our Nursing Philosophy
Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring is consistent with our organizational initiatives. A core principle of the caring theory is caring consciousness. A relationship with self, self-reflection, self-care and relationships with others is essential. The caring theory recognizes nursing as an art and a science; it is the core of who we are.
Our Nursing Values (CARING)
Compassion: We deliver compassionate and coordinated nursing care, serving our community by being accountable for high-quality and holistic care.
Advocate: We partner with patients, families and the community in sickness and health.
Respect: We value and protect the dignity of all.
Innovation: We integrate evidence-based practice and research.
Nurturing: We foster collaborative relationships to grow and develop our interprofessional team.
God-Honoring: We ensure our words and actions align with our identity and mission.
- Nursing Strategic Plan
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We’re developing a vision for the future for nursing excellence, nurse leaders and clinical staff. The plan focuses on the important initiatives and work environment nursing strives to achieve.
Goal: Nursing Empowerment
Continue to build an empowered, confident nursing team where nurses are supported, highly invested and highly satisfied in their work environment.
Objective: Invest and enhance nursing staff engagement, reduce RN turnover, enhance meaningful recognition, foster growth and development, and sustain an innovative workforce.
Goal: Enhance the Culture of Safety and Quality
Sustain highly reliable performance through systems, processes, outcomes and accountability (changing and influencing behaviors).
Objective: Sustain a culture of a highly reliable organization, Leapfrog A and 5-Star CMS hospital outcomes and nurse-sensitive indicators outperforming national database benchmarks.
Goal: Patient Experience
Through every touchpoint, we will treat each patient as a whole person — physically, mentally and spiritually.
Objective: Improve and enhance patient experience, coordination of safe and competent nursing care and accountability of all staff.
Goal: Nursing Outreach
Promote clinician ownership and accountability across the continuum of care by partnering with departments and the community.
Objective: Enhance internal and external communication, increase the number of nurses volunteering in our community or hospital-sponsored events, and enhance health equity and cultural diversity within our communities.
Goal: Financial Stewardship
Support value-driven resource management through shared accountability for the resources required to provide quality and accountable care.
Objective: Identify and implement opportunities to decrease cost, improve efficiencies, reduce readmissions and length of stay, and increase service line growth and care standardization.
Goal: Innovation that Advances the Knowledge and Body of Nursing
Cultivate and uphold new knowledge, innovation and professional development at all levels of nursing.
Objectives: Enhance nursing research and evidence-based practice, increase nursing board certifications, promote advanced education, enhance advanced practice roles, sustain Magnet designation, and optimize technology and innovation.
We are Honored to Achieve Magnet Recognition®
In 2015, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale received the prestigious Magnet designation by the Commission on Magnet Recognition® of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) initial designation.
ANCC Magnet Recognition® is the highest honor a healthcare organization can achieve for nursing excellence and quality patient care. Approximately 8% of hospital organizations nationwide have achieved this status.
In March 2020, our Hinsdale and La Grange hospitals achieved Magnet redesignation in a two-campus, one-entity application.
A Letter From Our Chief Nursing Officer
Our UChicago Medicine AdventHealth nurses are dynamic, caring, compassionate, innovative and resilient. Aligning with the values and mission of our health system, our nursing staff is committed to whole-person care. They ensure safe, reliable and quality care through collaborative efforts. Our nurses form relationships to support one another and the interprofessional team.
Recognizing Extraordinary Team Members
The DAISY Award for nurses and the Sunflower Award for non-nursing team members recognize the extraordinary, compassionate care our teams provide daily to patients and families. Learn more about each award and how to nominate a UChicago Medicine AdventHealth team member.
Our Professional Practice Model
Our practice model represents the ideas that guide and support how we deliver care at UChicago Medicine AdventHealth.
It depicts how we practice, collaborate, communicate and develop to provide the highest quality care for those we serve.
We believe in person-centered care, quality and safety, innovative practice, an inclusive culture, professional development and shared decision-making.
Our Shared Governance Structure
Shared Governance is a dynamic staff-leader partnership that promotes collaboration, shared decision making and accountability for improving the quality of care, safety and enhancing work life. Decision-making is based on evidence, facts, and consensus on what is best for all team members.
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale and La Grange hospitals have an integrated Shared Governance consisting of the Clinical Practice Council (CPC), Clinical Nurse Peer Review Committee (CNPRC), Professional Nurse Practice Council (PNP) and Nursing Care Committee (NCC).
Additionally, interprofessional committees align with our shared governance, hospital quality and patient safety governance. Shared Governance Councils are chaired by clinical staff nurses and supported by a leader facilitator.
- Clinical Practice Council (CPC)
- Clinical Nurse Peer Review Committee (CNPRC)
- Professional Nurse Practice Council (PNP)
- Nursing Care Committee (NCC)
Decision-making structure that develops and approves clinical practice guidelines, policies and procedures based on our mission, caring theory and current evidence that provides practice accountability, autonomy and authority at the professional staff nurse level. The CPC has the authority to directly impact the practice of nursing and the standards of patient care. It also coordinates alignment with all other hospital disciplines for best patient-centered outcomes.
The CNPRC is a sub-committee of the Clinical Practice Council (CPC). CNPRC is designed to evaluate nursing care objectively and non-judgmentally to identify the causative factors involved in medical errors and look toward solutions to improve future performance. The review is intended to be constructive, confidential and non-punitive. This committee’s goal aligns with the hospital’s commitment to delivering quality patient care by empowering nurses to meet professional standards of practice.
Decision-making structure that provides for practice accountability, autonomy and authority at the professional clinical nurse level. The PNP has the authority to directly impact the practice of nursing and the standards of patient care. The PNP supports the professional development of nurses. PNP members review, monitor and track action plans for improvements for nurse-sensitive indicators and participate as Magnet Champions.
Decision-making structure that addresses issues that impact nursing practice and the work environment and ensures compliance with state-mandated guidelines regarding scheduling and staffing of the professional nurse. The NCC has the authority to directly impact standards of practice. A requirement of the State of Illinois, this committee’s membership is 55% clinical nurses.
The Theory of Human Caring
Registered nurse Dr. Jean Watson developed the Theory of Human Caring while studying psychology for her doctorate. According to her theory, the primary concern of nursing is to promote health, prevent illness, care for the sick and restore health.
Watson argues that nurses must prioritize care above all else and treat patients as part of a larger good, emphasizing the relationship between nurse and patient.
Click below to learn more about how we implement the theory of human caring through our commitment to whole-person health.
Join Our Team
When you join UChicago Medicine AdventHealth, you’ll be part of an organization that believes in caring for team members just as much as patients. Explore how you can apply at one of our locations.