We think they deserve to have a highly qualified registered nurse to deliver their nursing care. Attending to the cultural and ethnic diversity of patients, families, significant others and health care providers in the system. During admission, nurses identify those cultural practices that patients wish to observe during hospitalization and that will influence the patient's health and care. In addition, the medical center frequently sponsors visiting nurses from other countries, and the Clinical Education Department offers more than 11 classes on various cultural health practices. Participating in community service.
Community service is an integral and important part of the medical center's mission.
Nurses participate in a variety of education and wellness programs to provide outreach to fellow nurses as well as to train patients and the lay public. These activities include providing outreach to school nurses in Nevada and Placer counties, presenting clinical data and experiences at a variety of national conferences, developing and teaching health classes from kindergarten through high school, establishing community standards to treat communicable disease exposures and supporting scholarship funds and educational opportunities to maintain an ethnically diverse health-care provider population. Showing leadership in nursing research and integration of research findings into practice. Nurses conducting research have excellent opportunities to access patients in all medical specialties. Nurse scientists conduct practice-based research and help other nurses conduct research projects.