Re: Has Magnet Increased Nurse Satisfaction Within the Facility?
I think it is another set of hoops to jump through, which means more time and resources exhausted and wasted away from patient care.
This one is dangerous though, because unlike some e.g JCAHO.. this one is ripping jobs away from nurse's (
LICENSED practical nurses) and making them unemployed, so that hopsitals can go through a set of pony tricks to add another set of letters to their name.
Dealing with the loss of medication nurses, RN's who are now being forced to work extra shifts to fill in for where the LPN's were, and pass their own medication as well as the rest of their job, which they were not even able to finish in the allotted 12 hour shift beforehand.
At my hospital, LPN's took a team of patients just like an RN, assessed them and cared for them. All a RN had to pop in for was if an IV push was needed or a blood product to be hung.
Now these nurses are jobless, and where should they go? a clinic? LTC, god forbid.
Nurses who have worked Acute care are not designed, trained, or meant for that kind of work.
Whoever sat around and came up with Magnet sits about with bush on my respect level.
Not to mention the other requirements.. uniforms not leaving hospital etc aren't even mentioned by the facilities trying, they only focus on the RN only aspect.
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