Essentia Institute of Rural Health

The Essentia Institute of Rural Health Values

The Essentia Institute of Rural Health Values

Quality

  • Discovery of scientific knowledge that may benefit others.
  • Honoring critical thinking, reflection, innovation, creativity, integrity and personal responsibility.
  • Providing opportunities for human subjects to participate in research regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, geographic location and socioeconomic status.
  • Conducting research that is innovative, significant, rigorous and relevant to the needs of our patients and communities.
  • Providing educational activities that meet the needs of our learners and improves their knowledge, competencies and performance, and the health of their patients.
  • Protecting human subjects from avoidable risks in research.
  • Providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to, individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical research decisions.

Hospitality for a Community of Scholarship

  • Creating a climate that promotes free scholarship, problem solving, peer review and peer recognition.
  • Listening and responding sensitively to all.
  • Extending flexibility, openness, transparency and tolerance to all persons and all ideas.
  • Working proactively towards a shared vision.
  • Supporting the culture of a learning organization.

Respect

  • Cherishing and promoting the worth of all human life.
  • Treating persons with dignity and reverence without regard to age, gender, race, minority or economic status.
  • Honoring and supporting the ideas, work and scholarship of each person.
  • Protecting the freedom of scholars to pursue the truth as they see fit.
  • Protecting research subjects' privacy and confidentiality.
  • Ensuring informed consent and voluntary participation for all human subjects in research.

Justice

  • Advocating policies for the poor and powerless.
  • Maintaining respectful working relationships.
  • Eliminating prejudice in ourselves and in institutional policies.
  • Promoting open and fair decision-making based on valid information.
  • Striving to develop a community of free and innovative scholarship and learning.
  • Working towards a more just world.

Stewardship

  • Utilizing human resources responsibly.
  • Providing wise and responsible use of all material and monetary resources.
  • Promoting conservation of resources and energy.
  • Managing people, finances and property wisely on behalf of others.
  • Ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations regarding research and conditions of grants and contracts.

Teamwork

  • Collaborating as diverse members of a team to achieve a common goal.
  • Striving to be the collaborators of choice with both internal and external partners.
  • Sharing talents and time to help others grow and be successful.
  • Accepting and valuing ideas of others, especially when different from one's own.
  • Appreciating and supporting the efforts and contributions of coworkers.
  • Speaking positively of others, eliminating negativity.
  • Following up on commitments and keeping one's word.
  • Subordinating personal recognition to the effectiveness of the whole.