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What Does Magnet Certification Mean?
 

ANCC Magnet RecognitionMagnet 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

  1. Professional autonomy throughout nursing practice
  2. Nursing control over it's practice environment
  3. 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
Talk with a recruiter toll-free today,
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