Sharp San Diego Surgery Center

The system serves more individuals in the San Diego community than any other healthcare system in the region. The surgery center falls within Sharp's ambulatory and specialty care network, providing surgical services to the San Diego community. Nursing at Sharp HealthCare encompasses a wide range of specialties, and the system places significant emphasis on being 'the best place to work, practice medicine, and receive care.' The organization promotes The Sharp Experience, a cultural framework designed to transform the healthcare experience through caring, quality, safety, service, innovation, and excellence. Nursing roles at Sharp surgery centers involve preoperative and postoperative patient care, with responsibilities including assessment, planning, implementation, and coordination of patient care through surgical phases. Sharp HealthCare is recognized as a major employer in the San Diego area, and the organization has built its reputation on community standards of quality care. The system's commitment to high reliability and achieving zero harm extends to employees, physicians, patients, and their families, creating a framework that shapes the nursing work environment across all Sharp facilities.

Sharp HealthCare's mission is to improve the health of those they serve with a commitment to excellence in all that they do. Their vision is to transform the healthcare experience by being the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine, and the best place to receive care — with the aspirational goal of becoming the best health system in the universe. Core values include integrity, and the organization emphasizes a culture built on caring, quality, safety, service, innovation, and excellence. Sharp is committed to high reliability and achieving zero harm and zero defects for employees, physicians, patients, and families.