Announcements

REFLECT | Communicating a Caring Culture
Caring is who we are and what we do, as individuals and as a caring culture. We can and should model and reflect our commitment to care of self, care of others, and care of the environment. 

Care of Self - Self-care is an individual practice and should be shaped to fit who we are, but as Sigma nurses, we all have the opportunity to reflect self-care.

Care of Others - Sigma offers members an opportunity to reflect Sigma’s inclusive, integrated art-and-science of nursing approach to developing nurse leaders anywhere to improve health care everywhere as we mobilize our skills, expertise, and experiences in our day-to-day lives and connect with others to transform global healthcare.

Care of the Environment - Sigma is committed to providing education, support, resources, and opportunities to engage in advocacy and be the change we want to see in Care of the Environment. Advocacy here means “any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports or defends, or pleads on the behalf of others.”

RESPECT | Cultivating Cultural Humility
To cultivate is to acquire, develop, demonstrate, and define. As a caring culture we have an opportunity to model keys to cultivating cultural humility, as we commit to:

Listen - Through an ongoing process of compassionate self-awareness, others' awareness, self-evaluation, and self-critique.

Learn - With humility, grace, and a growth mindset, learn about others’ culture/cultural influences/identities but start with an examination of our own culture/cultural influences/identities.

Lead - Commit to a lifelong process of cultural humility; recognize power dynamics and imbalances and a desire to fix those imbalances; and develop partnerships with people and groups who advocate for others.

RESPOND | Championing Contemporary Practice
Despite what may be going on around us,
• professionalism,
• perspective, and
• perseverance
are key as we respond to the demands of modern-day nursing and represent a group of influential nurse leaders who are connected, empowered, and well-positioned to transform global healthcare and add value to the world.

Acting quickly, positively, and consistently in modeling professionalism, perspective, and perseverance represents a nursing profession and a Sigma organization in which leaders consistently act in ways that help team members to thrive, and team members consistently act in ways that help other team members to thrive. As a result, the organization can care very well for customers.

We know that recent and current disruptions to the world and to the nursing workforce, including COVID, systemic bias, burnout, violence against nurses, and staffing shortages will continue. We have yet to see what impacts artificial intelligence will have. As Sigma members we must respond to the demands of contemporary nursing practice with
• professionalism,
• perspective, and
• perseverance
with support from our Sigma community and the many resources available to us.