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Feb 05, 2007 01:01 PM

Is "magnet status" a joke?

by PattonD

A new hospital is being built here and supposedly they are going to have magnet status. All the research I have done online indicates nurses are NOT in favor of the way it is currently implemented.

How do you guys feel?

http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/cgi-b...3968;start=0#0

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from Gennaver
Old Feb 08, 2007, 11:37 AM

Default Re: Is "magnet status" a joke?
Originally Posted by PattonD View Post
A new hospital is being built here and supposedly they are going to have magnet status. All the research I have done online indicates nurses are NOT in favor of the way it is currently implemented.

How do you guys feel?

http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/cgi-b...3968;start=0#0
Hello,
From what I suppose a hospital will not just "have" magnet status because that is a process which a hospital applies for and is granted. If the hospital isn't even built yet, nor has staff then I would be surprised if it can have "status" upon completion.

Also, as a current unlicensed assistive personnel who has worked in four facilities that had manget status...it means nothing to me.

Gen
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from jamonit
Old Feb 08, 2007, 11:51 AM

Default Re: Is "magnet status" a joke?
i tend to think it is a joke. in arizona at least. all hospitals are supposedly magnet. haha. coming from a new grad that was inside most of them, the 'magnet' hospitals didn't magnetize me to join their staff. (nor would i let some of the 'magnet' hospitals electively treat my loved ones)

seems like a bunch of hooey.
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from mugwump
Old Feb 13, 2007, 12:23 PM

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Actually not all the hospitals in arizona are magnet. one in tuscan, 2 in phoenix, (I guess you could say all the hospitals in scottsdale are) they are two of them and they are both Magnet. That it is. and trust me there are a lot more than 5 hospitals in arizona.
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from jamonit
Old Feb 13, 2007, 06:45 PM

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magnet status hospitals in phoenix: banner good sam, jcl north mountain, and scottsdale heathcare shea.

i never said all hospitals in arizona are magnet. i just said the one's that are (the one's in the phoenix area that i did my clinicals rotations at) did not overly impress me.

here's a link to the latest hospitals in az deemed magnet: http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoen...wscolumn2.html
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from ginger58
Old Feb 13, 2007, 10:20 PM

Default Re: Is "magnet status" a joke?
Originally Posted by jamonit;2066555[SIZE="4"
]i never said all hospitals in arizona are magnet.[/size] ]
In Arizona all hospitals are supposedly magnet.
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No. 7
from hogan4736
Old Feb 13, 2007, 10:57 PM
Updated Feb 13, 2007 at 11:03 PM by hogan4736

Default Re: Is "magnet status" a joke?
Originally Posted by jamonit View Post
... in arizona at least. all hospitals are supposedly magnet.
Originally Posted by jamonit View Post
...i never said all hospitals in arizona are magnet...
Originally Posted by jamonit View Post
... (nor would i let some of the 'magnet' hospitals electively treat my loved ones)



enough said...

oh, and don't judge a hospital by a few bad experiences
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from EmerNurse
Old Feb 14, 2007, 08:18 AM

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Seems to me that Magnet is a very high-priced marketing tool and once one hospital in a community has it, the others in the area have to follow suit to compete. As a nurse, haven't seen anything spectacular come of it. Nothing that some common sense and decent leadership couldn't have done themselves without the magnet "honor".

That said - aren't I just on a Magnet UPC council yet AGAIN. Whoopie!
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from sunnyjohn
Old Feb 14, 2007, 08:51 AM

Default Re: Is "magnet status" a joke?
Sometimes it is, Sometimes it isn't.

If a hospital has a good administration that listens to the staff and takes collegiality seriously, Magnet status is just icing on the cake.

If the place sucks, Magnet staus is like slapping lipstick on a pig.
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