What do you thinkf of "Magnet"?

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hi everyone. i would like to know your opinion on "magnet" what has it really done? how has it changed your practice? do you really think that the general public looks for a magnet hospital when choosing health care? i feel it is very expensive to maintain and our public hospital should put those funds to better use. what do you think of them pushing the bsn ,esp in this ecomony? just asking

Specializes in Peds ED, Peds Stem Cell Transplant, Peds.

It hurts the nursing community, the expect everyone to constantly continue education, and join committees to the point you are either at work or school, you don't have a family life. might as well say good bye to your kids. You end up with alot of book smart nurses that don't know how to practice what they learn. All it is a self pat on the back, for doing what you already did, expect with $$$ being thrown away.

It does nothing for the nurses that are the ones that work to earn it.

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.

comparison of patient outcomes in magnet® and non-magnet hospitals.

non-magnet hospitals had better patient outcomes than magnet hospitals.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22094616

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Specializes in ICU.

We have an RN FTE magnet consultant. The fees are at least 250,000 to apply. ANCC requires a % of....you guessed it.... certified nurses who have to buy certification from them!

It's just a feather in the cap of an administrator who wants to move up even higher.

Meantime, most of our M/S units have one working thermometer, staffing is cut to the bone, education funds are non existent and linens and supplies are often hard to come by.

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Specializes in Pedi.
comparison of patient outcomes in magnet® and non-magnet hospitals.

non-magnet hospitals had better patient outcomes than magnet hospitals.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22094616

this is quite possibly because non-magnet hospitals are more worried about actual patient care than they are about maintaining their supreme "magnet" status. i have seen a huge change for the worse in my institution since we became "magnet". staffing and basic patient care suffer while they hire people for the expressed purpose of training staff on how to answer the "magnet" questions when the surveyors pop in.

my hospital spends thousands and thousands of dollars to advertise their magnet status and to promote their absurdly high us news and world report rankings yet i have been told multiple times that i could not have a feeding pump brought up to the floor because "there were none in the hospital". we'll spend money to tell you we're the best or to buy a status that we don't deserve, but we don't have the equipment to feed our patients. nice.

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