Nursing
Nursing Philosophy
At Lakeland Regional, our nursing staff is dedicated to developing caring relationships that provide intentional, holistic care to achieve and sustain quality patient-centered outcomes and exceed patient, family, and community expectations.
Nursing Vision
Quality. Caring. Excellence.
Nursing Values
- Caring
- Safety
- Outcomes
- Quality
- Values
- Relationships
- Environment
- Excellence
- Opportunity
- Knowledge/Knowledgeable
Nursing at LRMC
The nursing staff at Lakeland has adopted Dr. Joanne Duffy’s Quality-Caring Model© as its professional practice model. The Quality-Caring Model is relationship-centered, focusing on caring for patients and families, caring for self, caring for the community and caring for the health team.
By following Dr. Duffy’s eight caring factors of mutual problem solving, attentive reassurance, human respect, encouraging manner, appreciation of unique meaning, affiliation needs and basic human needs, our team is able to provide exceptional, individualized care to our patients, families and staff.
Through the video below, see what Lakeland Regional’s nurses have to say about Dr. Duffy’s Quality-Caring Model and how it has shaped the way they advocate and care for patients.
Nursing Shared Governance
Lakeland Regional’s nursing shared governance provides a framework for achieving excellence in nursing practice with multiple opportunities to impact how we define, create and evaluate the professional nursing practice at our hospital. Our councils consist of direct care nurses who are dedicated to bringing evidence based practice to the bedside.
Nursing Practice Council 2011 - 2012
Nurse Practice Council
The NPC is composed of the chairperson of each of the governance councils, along with three RN-at-large positions. This council assures that the standards of nursing practice and the standards of nursing care are consistent with the scope of nursing practice. This council also participates in the development of the Nursing Strategic Plan and collaborates with the Chief Nurse Executive and nursing leadership regarding implementation of established goals and objectives, performance improvement and nurse sensitive indicators. This council facilitates communication among nursing governance councils and unit based councils.
- Evidence Based Practice and Research Council
- Nursing Quality Council
- Interdisciplinary Practice Council
- Professional Practice Council
- Procedure Standards Council
- Recruitment and Retention Council
- Unit Based Councils
Committed to Continued Education
Lakeland Regional’s nurses are committed to seeking new knowledge, as they learn the latest technologies, earn advanced degrees and gain additional certifications. Watch as these nurses proudly proclaim the credentials that follow their names, which represent the additional ways they are “credentialed to care.”