UC Irvine Health: Advancing the Future of Healthcare – Nursing Strategic Plan FY2011‐FY2017

Nursing Strategic Plan Summary

Mission Statement (Our purpose)
Discover ٠Teach ٠Heal

Vision Statement (Our aspiration)

To be among the best [top 20] academic health centers in the nation in research,
medical education and excellence in patient care

Nursing excellence will be recognized by:

 Magnet Designation
 Exceptional staff engagement
 High level of patient and family satisfaction
 Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators that exceed national benchmarks
 Evidence of coordination across the continuum of care
 Strong financial performance

Core Values (Behaviors we value and reward)

Accountability – We are each responsible for the achievements and successes of UC Irvine Health.
Respect – We foster an environment of mutual respect and trust amongst ourselves and with all whom we serve.
Integrity – We tell the truth and strive to earn the trust of those around us.
Innovation – We seek ideas and approaches that can change the way the world discovers, teaches and heals.
Service through Teamwork – As departments, units and individuals, we collaborate to effectively and compassionately serve
our patients, each other and our community.
Excellence – We are committed to achieving the highest level of excellence in patient care, discovery and education.
Nursing Philosophy (Our foundation)
At UC Irvine, our beliefs about nursing practice are grounded in caring theories.

The key concepts are:

We embrace the organizational values (ARI2SE). Our vision for nursing excellence informs our selection of specific goals to enhance
overall organizational goals and advance nursing science. Nursing makes a unique contribution through focusing on creating a
holistic caring patient-centered, compassionate environment to facilitate healing and optimizing health and wellbeing. This is
accomplished by employing a shared governance model and providing competent, inspiring nursing leadership.

Philosophy Statement:
UC Irvine nurses strive to provide safe, competent, compassionate patient care which is based on mutual respect and personal
integrity. Our nurses practice within a caring, patient-centered environment, using advocacy, critical thinking and accountability in
evidence-based practice. As members of an academic medical center, our nurses participate in research and in the support of
professional education.

Goals Development (Organizational and Nursing History)

In 2010, UC Irvine Health developed a 5 year strategic plan which was the culmination of work done by senior leadership from the
Medical Center, School of Medicine, and the University Physicians and Surgeon service practice. This document has served as an
infrastructure to assure that this tripartite organization
moves forward in a unified expedient and efficient
manner.

The UC Irvine Medical Center leadership team held

multidisciplinary planning sessions to craft 2010 annual
goals to assure continued progress with strategic plan
milestones. After carefully assessing the prior year’s
performance as part of the planning process, senior
leaders championed goals which were sorted into five
categories or pillars which include quality, service,
finance, people and growth.

Market analysis, demographics, and UC Irvine

performance against internal and external benchmarks
were blended into the 2010-2011 Strategic Plan. . Organizational goals were identified and assigned to Hospital and SOM leaders who
served as initiative champions responsible for the development of tactics to assure successful attainment of UC Irvine Health
objectives. In addition to these over arching strategies, the Medical Center, School of Medicine and the University Physician and
Surgeon group used this plan as guiding principles to assure that each organization’s operational goals aligned UC Irvine Healthcare’s
mission, vision and strategic plan.

The CNO played an integral role in goal development by leading the design of quality and safety goals and crafting nursing growth
and people goals that support UC Irvine Health Mission and Vision.

Nursing Leadership actively participated in all aspects of this planning process until there was consensus on Medical Center goals.
Following this work session, nursing leadership crafted nursing specific goals and tactics that aligned with the organizational strategic
plan that would contribute to the Medical Center’s overall goal attainment. From these, the annual incentive goals are derived.

Organizational and Nursing Strategic Themes (2011-2017)

Advance Clinical Excellence

Broaden the Impact of our Clinical Expertise

Advance Premier Research

Educate for the Future

Foster an Outstanding Team

Financial Sustainability

Strengthen Image & Community Partnerships

Nursing Strategic Themes, Goal and Strategies (2011-2017)

Themes Goals Strategies

(Areas of Focus) (What we want to accomplish) (Actions we will undertake)
Advance Clinical Goal 1-Provide high-quality, accessible, patient-centered care Provide compassionate, patient-
Excellence centered care through Relationship-
Based, Primary care.
Monitor, analyze and develop actions
to improve HCAHPS scores related to
nursing
Goal 2-Strive for nursing sensitive quality Indicators that Benchmark with CalNOC, NDNQI, Press
exceed national benchmarks Ganey, and NHSN with the goal to
maintain the mean above the
benchmark mean for the majority of
units for the majority of quarter.
Continue to monitor, analyze and
implement actions to improve
performance compared to national
benchmarks.
Maintain focus on falls prevention,
pressure Ulcer prevention, hospital
acquired infection, patient satisfaction,
and medication safety.

Broaden the Impact Goal 3-Foster professional development Support shared governance model
of Clinical Expertise Encourage participation in professional
nursing organizations, conference
attendance and publication.
Foster the professional advancement of
nursing by providing organizational
support for certification and education
as evidenced by:

 An increase of 2.5% in the

Themes Goals Strategies
(Areas of Focus) (What we want to accomplish) (Actions we will undertake)
percentage of BSN prepared
nurses over the 4 year
redesignation period
 An increase in the percentage
of nurses certified in a
recognized specialty by 2%
over the 4 year redesignation
period.

Goal 4-Foster excellence in clinical practice Coordinate nursing care across the
continuum of care
Continue to facilitate evidence-based
nursing

Advance Premier Goal 5-Identify and promote nursing research strengths at UC Provide the research infrastructure and
Research Irvine Healthcare increase resources available to support
high-quality research.
Goal 6-Promote translational research Strengthen translational research that
builds upon strong basic science and
enhances collaboration between basic
science and clinical researchers.
Foster greater collaboration with the
UC Program in Nursing Science.

Educate for the Goal 7-Place UC Irvine at the forefront of nursing education Continue to be the hospital of choice
Future for nursing student clinical experiences
and preceptorships.
Continue to provide didactic and
clinical instructors to the UC Program in
Nursing Science
Goal 8-Provide outstanding educational experiences for new Develop novel instructional
graduate nurses, new hires, and current staff technological solutions that enhance
Themes Goals Strategies
(Areas of Focus) (What we want to accomplish) (Actions we will undertake)
educational experiences for nursing.

Foster an Outstanding Goal 9-Establish strong, consistent, and committed leadership. Cultivate the next generation of
Team institutional leadership.
Goal 10- Recruit and retain top-quality nursing staff: Increase Recruit BSN prepared nurses and
percentage of BSN prepared staff provide opportunities for current staff
to obtain BSN:
1. Tuition reimbursement
2. Flexible scheduling
3. Enter into MOUs that provide
tuition reduction to UC Irvine
RNs.
Develop New Graduate Nurse
Residency Program

Goal 11-Instill a culture of pride, accountability and teamwork Strengthen teamwork across nursing
across the nursing.
Goal 12- Foster exceptional staff engagement Participate in Gallup Engagement
Survey and develop strong Impact
Plans

Financial Goal 13-Create a culture of philanthropy Strengthen fundraising opportunities

Sustainability
Goal 14-Develop a sustainable financial future for nursing Market educational offerings to
community to generate revenue

Strengthen Image & Goal 15-Enhance the image and strengthen the identify of UC Maintain Magnet Designation
Community Nursing
Partnerships Goal 16-Establish strong collaboration and partnerships Continue to build strong, collaborative
through Orange County and the region. partnerships within the community.