Nursing care in hospital must serve the patient. The freedom and self-fulfilment of the individual employee will thus end at the point where the basic principle comes into effect: “Never do anything that you wouldn’t wish to be done to yourself.”

1. Nursing care implies providing humane and professional assistance for persons who, due to diseases and physical, psychic or psychosocial impairments require such assistance. We endeavour to provide all patients entrusting themselves into our care with high quality assistance.
2. We can meet this demand only by involving all professional groups within the hospital. Insofar, nursing care also acts as a mediator between patients and all other groups within the hospital.
3. Nursing staff combine specialist nursing and medical skills with high social competence and responsibility in order to provide assistance, advice and support for the sick.
4. Nursing and medical staff have the joint task of assuring high-quality patient care for all our patients. This requires close interaction with each other, mutual appreciation, openness and true co-operation).
5.  Nursing care also means including patients’ relatives in the nursing process, advising and supporting them.
6. Nursing care in our hospitals conforms to the most recent findings of nursing research and takes account of latest advances and new insights. Ongoing, systematic training and development programmes support our quality targets.
7. Nursing care at our hospitals is totally process-oriented and thus an integral part of our patient-focussed flow organisation.
8. Nursing care at RHÖN-KLINIKUM facilities will also observe the Group’s principles regarding cost-efficiency and performance - in the interest of all stakeholders in health care.