Magnet Status recognition...hospital -wide?

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Specializes in NICU, ER, OR.

Ok, I have a few specific questions, but I will start the topic with one broad question, and go from there.>>>>

When your hospital received Magnet Status, was the recognition for the "nurses" only? Or did it include... pca's, surgical technologists, phlebotomists....u/s techs:confused:.ets etc...???

Thanks for any input you can share.

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Magnet status is a lie. It means nothing. My hospital has it and they don't follow many of the policies.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Magnet status is for the entire hospital, not just the nurses.

It was originally something to recognize particular facilities that attracted nurses more than other facilities.

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Specializes in PICU, Sedation/Radiology, PACU.

Magnet Recognition is given by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. So while the whole hospital is involved, Magnet criteria focus specifically on nurses and the award is a recognition for nursing excellence.

http://www.nursecredentialing.org/Magnet.aspx

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Honestly, I know that much paperwork goes into "Magnet"...and the recerts, as well-but, honestly, I feel that it's up there(or down there!) with the Press Gainey's PR...

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Magnet is based on Nursing specific indicators. Many of these have "owners" outside of Nursing, such as administration, which is more who Magnet status is for since it gives them a plaque to put in the lobby and a PR boost to their website. In theory, Magnet recognizes Nursing excellence and a commitment to quality patient care.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

A Magnet Hospital

for Nursing Excellence

Magnet hospital is one that has embarked on an extensive review and systematic evaluation of its nursing practice by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Magnet hospitals must meet stringent quantitative and qualitative standards that define the highest quality of nursing practice and patient care. Becoming a Magnet hospital means that the organization must meet over 65 standards developed by the ANCC. The standards must be demonstrated in a very extensive written document and validated and clarified by a site visit.

What Magnet status means to nurses and the hospital

The Magnet designation means that the hospital has created an environment that supports nursing practice and focuses on professional autonomy, decision making at the bedside, nursing involvement in determining the nursing work environment, professional education, career development and nursing leadership. This can only be accomplished with the support and participation of all the departments and employees in the hospital that place patient care first and foremost in the mission of their daily work. We at the Miriam have created this environment with the patient in mind.

What Magnet status means for patients

Quantitative evidence indicates that hospitals that have achieved Magnet status have improved nurse to patient ratios and patient satisfaction is higher than in non-magnet hospitals. Health care consumers are becoming much more educated and discriminating and are seeking objective benchmarks that will aide them in choosing a health care provider.

About the ANCC

magnetlarge.jpgThe American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) was established in 1991 as a separately incorporated entity of the American Nurses Association. The ANCC has provided certification opportunities in more than 30 specialties and advanced practice areas of nursing. It is the only national system for accreditation and approval of continuing education in nursing.

The Magnet Recognition Program for Excellence in Nursing is based and administered by the ANCC. The program was based on research completed by nurse researchers in the early 1980s who identified the attributes of organizations that were able to recruit and retain professional nurses.

The Magnet program identifies excellence in the provision of nursing services, an environment that fosters and rewards quality nursing, recognizes the management philosophy and practice of nursing services and the adherence to standards for improving the quality of patient care.

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Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.
Magnet status is a lie. It means nothing. My hospital has it and they don't follow many of the policies.

For some hospitals this is true, for others, like the one I worked at it is not.

Blanket statements might cover you up but the holes in them will always leave you cold.

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Specializes in Mixed ICU, OHU.

My hospital holds Magnet status and we take it very seriously.

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Specializes in Pedi.
Magnet status is a lie. It means nothing. My hospital has it and they don't follow many of the policies.

This is the same way I feel about it. Recently, there was a poster up in the bathroom at work that listed all the criteria for a magnet institution. I read it and thought "so how the h*^& are we magnet?"

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Specializes in ICU/PACU.

Magnet is crap, I agree. I remember when the first hospital I worked at was going for Magnet status (we got it). They invited us all out for breakfast and we were all lying to them about our unit. If we were honest, we wouldn't have received magnet status. But what are you going to do? Be the only one telling the truth and get fired? We did get raises after we received Magnet.

Hospital I work at now is Magnet too. What a load of crap. It's one of the most dangerous places I've ever worked!

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