Magnet status/nurses strike

[clcrtrn]

Hello all!

New RN (1 year) and new member to allnurses.com. Does anyone know how a nurses strike would affect a hospital's Magnet status, if at all? I work as an ICU RN at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in NJ and are on the verge of striking on Monday 8/14/06. Would such a strike revoke a hospital's highly regarded Magnet status? Any insight would be appreciated as the clock ticks!

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

staff nurse survey

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from eligibility regs:

unfair labor practices. in the three-year period preceding submission of the application, the applicant must not have committed an unfair labor practice involving a nurse; as determined in a fully and finally adjudicated proceeding or before the national labor relations board (nlrb) or state or international regulatory agency with jurisdiction over labor relations and/or a reviewing federal, state, or international court;. only the commission on magnet may approve any exception to this criterion.2-

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[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

yes facilities have lost magnet designation over strikes, especilly if unfair labor practice occured.

business - med center loses magnet status - sacbee.com ucd hospital official says nurse union's militancy affected on-site review. ... but other experts say the magnet designation has lost much of its meaning. ...

www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/14132700p-14961615c.html

[ukstudent]

I thought that magnet status was ALL about nursing satisfaction. As in the hospital attracts nurses like a magnet.

Nurses on strike = non satisfied nurses, should = no magnet status.

If it dosen't then magnet status really doesn't mean a thing.

[fedupnurse]

Englewood in Northen NJ was on strike for at least a month earlier this summer and DID NOT lose their Magnet status. It is NOT an automatic thing. The only hospital I know of that has lost Magnet Status is UC Davis in California.

Magnet is supposed to mean nursing excellence and one would think that having replacement nurses rather than the Magnet award winning nurses at the bedside would warrant losing Magnet, but apparently the ANA wants the money it receives from designating facilities as Magnet. If only hopsitals would put those hundreds of thousands toward safer nurse to patient ratios.....

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Magent status would be pulled only upon Fed Gov confirming unfair labor practices. When time for renewal, strike WILL be a factor in how it was handled along with nursing administration actions, STAFF satisfaction and participation in facility management/decision making.