What Does Magnet Certification Mean?
Magnet certification is the Academy Award for ...
- Best Nursing Practice
- Best Practice Environment for Nurses
- Best Institution Where Nurses Want to Work
Magnet hospitals have demonstrated organizational attributes that enable nurses to fully use their knowledge and expertise to provide high-quality patient care.
Source: Havens & Aiken (1999). Shaping systems to promote desired outcomes. JONA, 29(2): 14-20.
Magnet Facilities Consistently Demonstrate Three Key Characteristics
- Professional autonomy throughout nursing practice
- Nursing control over it's practice environment
- Effective communication among nurses, physicians, interdisciplinary team and administration
Source: Steltzer TM (2002). The Magnetic pull. Nursing Management, 33(1): 41-42
Positive Outcomes for Nurses
- Increase nurse-patient ratio
- Collaborative relationships with colleagues
- Broad-based participation in decision-making R/T clinical care
- Flatter organizational structure
- Nursing research enhances clinical practice
- Flexible patient care delivery systems
- Increase percentage of BSN-prepared nurses
- Influential nurse leaders
- Investment in education and expertise of nurses
- Decrease RN turnover rates
Positive Outcomes for Patients
- Decrease length of stay
- Decrease utilization of ICU days
- Decrease mortality rates for Medicare patients
Source: Robinson CA (2001). Magnet nursing services recognition: Transforming critical care environments, AACN Clinical Issues, 12(3): 411-423.
Staff Benefits
- Formal recognition of nursing excellence and BGSMC being a great place to work
- Nurse recruitment 'magnet' (locally, regionally and nationally; travelers)
- Increased interdisciplinary collaboration
- Pride in provision of high quality patient care outcomes
