Nurse Friendly Certification

[Kelly_the_Great]

Hi,

Have any of you been through this process? If so I'd love to hear of your experiences (successes and failures)!

Was shared governance a new concept to your facility? How did you get support for it? What buy-in techniques were successful with your nurses?

Also, how big is your facility? What outside resources were of value to you?

Thanks in advance for sharing! :)

[Kelly_the_Great]

Hey guys, 51 views & no replies.

Please share. :)

[RN1989]

Nurse Friendly is a joke. It's even worse than Magnet. Many hospitals are using it because they know they can't lie good enough to achieve Magnet. As long as things look great on paper, that is what the committee goes by. You can have all these wonderful policies in place that meet the criteria but when the hospital doesn't follow them, it doesn't hellp any. The last place I worked that were trying to get it pretty much let the staff know that the hospital was working toward Nurse Friendly status. But the staff nurses were not involved, managers only. And the staff nurses were led to believe that they had better say good things to any committee members for the onsite interview if they knew what was good for them.

Sorry, but I haven't seen Nurse Friendly be any good. That is likely why you haven't gotten many responses.

[Kelly_the_Great]

Oh man, RN1989, I hate to hear that!

Still I'm thankful for your input. :flowersfo

There's another hospital near my area that had "Nurse Friendly" designation that lost it not long ago. I thought perhaps they had achieved it only b/c they're affliated with a larger hospital group that probably already had the "policies," etc. in place.

I had heard discouraging things about the facility and wondered how on earth they had achieved the designation on their own. Now from your response, I'm wondering if it was through coersion.???

Anyways, we've started out with just one small committee, comprised of all staff nurses (about 14) & 2 ad hoc leadership members. The leadership members don't have voting privliges on change initiatives but are there to help f/u on needed resources & to offer guidance if asked.

Hopefully, we'll be able to make some initial changes & staff will see the efforts as sincere.

I truly believe most nurses enter the field to help people and generally speaking, only become "burnt-out" when they feel they're unable to due to lack of support (i.e. short staffing, hostile work environments, lack of autonomy in their practice, etc.). If we can create an environment that's positive for nurses, I think it will produce positive outcomes for their patients as well, you know?

Well again, thanks, RN1989 for your response. :)