I found this interesting. One of this regions largest health system's flagship hospital has dropped it's Magnet certification. They have been certified since 2004 and was the first hospital in the state, outside the state capital, to recive Magent certification. They have a reputation of being an early adopter of technology and practice changes.
They have been struggling with profitability the last 3-4 years and have layed off around 200 people across the system, including all of their clinical nurse specialists and a bunch of managers.
Cost savings is the reason given to staff. Bedside nurses are pretty much indifferent and the public doesn't seem to know or care that they had a Magnet hospital in their town.
I wonder if this is an isolated case or if it will be a trend, or partial trend.
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I worked beside, I advocate for the nursing population, and I got my MSN so I could advocate MORE for nurses.
I think the issue most RNs have with MSN/NP etc etc is that they don't have much, if any bedside experience. Why? Because they are scared to do bedside, or they hate it so much they can't stay there. I think the bigger picture in all of this is that each nurse needs to do what they can to improve the state of their own existence which maybe, just maybe, will improve the environment for those so desperate to leave.
Gypsy I think you are spot on in your endeavors, and I wish more seasoned nurses would get on track with this, especially with scholarships and reimbursement programs out there. For instance, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is looking to support 100 PhD nurses in 2014. Full tuition.
they sell hospital certifications based on the number of certified nurses and satisfaction surveys.
it is just a feather in the cap of the ambitious vp of nursings cap.
It has absolutely nothing to do with pt outcomes
what really ****** me off is that the application fees and consultants fees would be much better spent on hiring an equivalent number of full time nurses.
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So, seasoned nurses are the problem?