Crafting a Unique and Aligned Nursing Mission Statement

Crafting a Unique and Aligned Nursing Mission Statement

A mission statement is developed collaboratively with the key stakeholders of an organization, such as investors, the staff, and, in some instances, the customers, in line with the values of the organization and its intended impact on the served community. The mission statement is a strategic tool that defines the organization’s main purpose while communicating its core values, objectives, and aspirations to its internal and external stakeholders (Berbegal-Mirabent et al., 2021). Organizations leverage the mission statement to help their primary and secondary stakeholders understand their main purpose in the market, identify and define themselves, as well as highlight their uniqueness and distinctiveness among many (Ortiz, 2022).

As the mission statement is developed as a part of an organization’s strategic planning process to clarify its aims and purpose, it acts as a guide on how things are and will be done within the organization, helping achieve higher organizational performance (Salehi-Kordabadi et al., 2020). This article presents the mission statement of Chamberlain University, the parent organization, and an individual mission statement. It discusses the elements of the individual mission statement, its congruence with the parent organization’s mission statement, and the influence of peer collaboration in the development of the mission statement.

Parent Organization Mission Statement

Chamberlain University has, over the last 150 years of its existence, been focused on a mission to provide comprehensive and high-quality education and produce competent healthcare professionals, including nurses, public health officers, and social workers. The mission statement of Chamberlain University is “To educate, empower and embolden diverse healthcare professionals who advance the health of people, families, communities and nations” (Chamberlain University, n.d.). The mission statement aligns with the University’s pledged purpose: “To create an academic culture in which colleagues and students thrive and that cultivates extraordinary graduates.”

Individual Mission Statement

To passionately nurture, educate, empower, and inspire healthcare professionals from all backgrounds by providing accessible and high-quality programs in education, fostering their growth and confidence as they tirelessly work to enhance the well-being of individuals in a safe and centered patient care environment, families, communities, and nations.

Elements of Individual Mission Statement

The developed individual mission statement is guided by a personal goal and aspirations to teach and mentor healthcare professionals, specifically nurses at the diploma and bachelor’s levels. This section discusses the elements of the individual mission considered during the development of the statement, including its congruence with the parent organization’s mission statement, its views on teaching and service, the unique qualities of the individual mission statement, and the targeted population.

Congruent with the Parent Organization Mission Statement

The individual mission statement has been developed with the consideration of what it means to be a nurse educator and what is required of the role of teaching healthcare professionals. It also considers the goal and personal growth from the perspective of the learner. Such a consideration has made it possible to develop an individual mission statement that is congruent with the Chamberlain University College of Nursing mission statement in so many dimensions. For instance, Chamberlain University’s mission statement defines the organization’s main goal as to educate, empower, and embolden healthcare professionals. On the other hand, the main goal of the individual mission statement is to nurture, educate, empower, and inspire healthcare professionals.

Secondly, the purposes of both mission statements agree based on the goal of each statement, focusing on nurturing healthcare professionals who are competent enough to serve communities with diverse individuals with diverse health needs. This includes providing high-quality education to students and guiding them in a manner that enables them to provide care services that serve and maintain the health of the people, families, communities, and nations.

Another element that makes the individual mission statement congruent with that of Chamberlain University is the target population. The Chamberlain University’s mission statement targets students who have been described as “diverse healthcare professionals” (Chamberlain University, n.d.). The individual mission statement also targets students identified as “healthcare professionals from all backgrounds.” These show that both mission statements aim to educate, empower, and embolden culturally diverse healthcare professionals who can provide universally culturally competent and sensitive healthcare anywhere in the world. This is depicted in the wording of both the mission statement; for instance, Chamberlain University’s mission statement notes that “diverse healthcare professionals who advance the health of people, families, communities and nations” (Chamberlain University, n.d.), while the individual mission includes a similar statement; “healthcare professionals from all backgrounds […] as they tirelessly work to enhance the well-being of individuals in a safe and centered patient care environment, families, communities, and nations.”

Teaching and Service

The individual mission statement views teaching and being of service to students as a passional activity. In line with Chamberlain University’s mission to “educate, empower and embolden diverse healthcare professionals,” the individual mission statement views that teaching and educating healthcare professionals is a process of nurturing them to grow both personally and professionally and emboldening them to be more confident enough to provide care to individuals, families, communities, and nations in a safe and patient-centered care environment.

The mission statement also views teaching and service as a universal right that should be accessible to all by aiming to provide “accessible and high-quality programs in education” to healthcare professionals from all backgrounds. This interpretably means providing high-quality programs in education that overcome major social, economic, and geographic barriers. This coincides with Chamberlain University’s approach to educating nurses, social workers, and public health professionals in both an online and in-person environment and also providing financial assistance to 90 percent of the University’s students (Chamberlain University, n.d.). Financial aid such as grants and scholarships have been linked to equitable postsecondary enrollment, college and program choice, and degree attainment by improving the affordability of college to diverse students, especially students from lower socio-economic backgrounds (Cahalan et al., 2022).

Unique Qualities

The individual mission statement highlights various unique qualities of the individual, such as the passion for nurturing, educating, and empowering healthcare professionals. It also highlights the individual’s unique focus on personal and career growth. For instance, it states the mission is “To passionately nurture, educate, empower, and inspire healthcare professionals from all backgrounds by providing accessible and high-quality programs in education, fostering their growth and confidence….” It also shows the individual’s unique quality of focusing on social equity in both access to education and healthcare services, as the mission statement clearly indicates that the individual’s goal and purpose is “To passionately nurture, educate, empower, and inspire healthcare professionals from all backgrounds by providing accessible and high-quality programs in education.” It also highlights the individual as a leader and mentor by aiming to nurture and inspire healthcare professionals from diverse backgrounds.

Target Population

The individual mission statement clearly targets healthcare professionals in learning settings. The mission statement’s wording includes “…healthcare professionals from all backgrounds by providing accessible and high-quality programs in education…” This indicates that it specifically targets socially-diverse students in healthcare teaching institutions.

Peer Collaboration

The individual mission statement has been developed and refined through a process of peer collaboration. Peer discussions over the last two weeks have been instrumental in understanding mission statements, the elements of a good mission statement, and the process of developing a good mission statement. I also researched various resources to help understand how to structure and word an effective mission statement that well communicates the individual goals, target populations, purpose, what is to be done, and how it will be done. By reviewing peer-reviewed articles and discussions with peers, I gained wider perspectives on mission statements and learned how the wording of the mission statement is critical in defining identity and uniqueness. Additionally, reviewing and providing feedback on other students’ mission statements also gave me an opportunity to revise my own and reword it to make it more congruent with the parent organization’s mission statement.

Conclusion

Mission statements are unique to individuals and organizations. They communicate individual values, goals, purpose, and identity. They create a strategic tool that can guide the process of growth from the individual level to the organizational level, as well as the delivery of intended services to the target population. Stakeholder and peer collaborations are critical in developing effective mission statements. Despite the challenges throughout the process, developing and refining the individual mission statement has been a valuable learning experience.

References

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Cahalan, M. W., Addison, M., Brunt, N., Patel, P. R., Vaughan, T. I., Genao, A., & Perna, L. W. (2022). Indicators of higher education equity in the United States: 2022 historical trend report. Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. www.pellinstitute.org

Chamberlain University. (n.d.). Mission and vision statement. https://www.chamberlain.edu/about/mission

Ortiz, L. (2022). Leveraging the organizational mission statement to communicate identity, distinctiveness, and purpose to primary and secondary stakeholders during COVID-19. Journal of Strategy and Management, 15(2), 234–255. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSMA-04-2021-0085/FULL/XML

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Assignment Criteria for the Paper

The mission statement reflects the original work of the student.
The mission statement reflects the uniqueness of the nursing program and is congruent with the mission statement of the parent institution.
A mission statement is clear, concise, and succinct and includes teaching and service.
Changes to the initial mission statement are identified, based on peer collaboration.
There is a minimum of two scholarly references related to mission statement development.
Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing and APA format as expressed in the current edition.
An introduction and conclusion are required in the paper.

The purpose of this assignment is to (a) develop a mission statement, (b) identify consistency between the program mission statement and the parent institution, (c) identify collaborative input from classmates in the development of a mission, and (d) demonstrate skills in the development and articulation of ideas in a scholarly manner.