What does it mean to be a Registered Nurse in the Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial family?

It means professionalism: Delivering nursing care and maintaining the standard of care for all patients and their families through use of the delegated, inter-dependent and independent functions of nursing.

It means critical thinking: Utilizing the nursing process as a means to assess for intervention in all levels of care, in analyzing and evaluating the clinical picture of the patient.

It means continuous quality improvement: Actively seeking ways to enhance and support this process and our mission, vision, core values and core competencies.

It means growth and development: Taking the initiative to seek educational opportunities for expansion of one's knowledge base and skills to further empower the development of an autonomous professional practice.

It means seeing the big picture: Supporting the development of the Spectrum Health Gerber Memorial strategic plan for providing state-of-the-art quality and cost effective health care for Newaygo County.

Nursing at Gerber: A career and life filled with meaning.