Caring Together: Redefining the Nursing Experience

Discover our innovative Nursing Professional Practice Model (PPM), designed to place patients, their families, colleagues, and self-care at the heart of nursing. This transformative approach empowers nurses to enhance collaboration, improve outcomes, and foster holistic well-being. Join us in redefining care where every interaction matters, and every voice is heard!

UVA Community Health Nursing Professional Practice Model

Relationship-based care model emphasizing and connecting: 

• Patients and their families 
• Colleagues (teams)
• Self 

The Nursing Professional Governance Organization (NPGO) is the shared decision-making structure for UVA Community Health nurses. Our Nursing Professional Practice Model (PPM) integrates all of the NPGO’s core principles.

Relationship-Based Care (RBC) is a model for cultural transformation and an operational framework aimed at enhancing safety, quality, patient satisfaction, and team member well-being by strengthening relationships throughout the organization. RBC emphasizes the importance of how we care for our patients, their families (community), and one another. It focuses on three key relationships essential for providing compassionate and humane healthcare: the nurse's relationship with patients and families, relationships among colleagues (team), and the nurse's relationship with self. RBC incorporates principles that encourage caring behaviors, guiding the transformation of infrastructure, processes, systems, and practices to support caregivers across all disciplines in building therapeutic relationships with patients and families.

The framework supporting the UVA Community Health relationship-based care professional practice model includes:

Cultivating Healthy Communities and Belonging for All (Team)

Reinvigorating our workforce by cultivating their sense of purpose and belonging

Built on a culture of deeply caring about our people and the development of our culture.

UVA nursing is focused on being a destination for talent by becoming the best place to work, learn, and grow.

Focused on creating a workforce that resembles the communities we serve.

Expanding our Excellence (Self)

Investing in our nursing talent along every career stage

Key Components:

• Professional development
• Investment in continual learning
• Ownership of nursing professional practice
• Leader and team empowerment

Superior Patient Outcomes (Patient and family)

We will lead in the delivery of safe, high-quality, and patient-centered care

Centered on a quality and safety infrastructure that enables consistent measurement and achievement of patient outcome targets

Expanding nursing research and utilization of evidenced-based practice (EBP) to ensure optimal care delivery and promotion of professional growth.