Jefferson’s Magnet ™ Journey
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Jefferson’s Magnet™ Journey
Jefferson is on a Magnet™ Journey to Nursing Excellence
Who is the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)?
• A subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA)
• Offers certifications in 26 specialties
• Certified over a quarter-million nurses since 1990 including 75,000 advanced practice nurses
• Administers the Magnet Recognition Program™
What is Magnet™ Status?
• Highest level of recognition awarded to hospitals by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
• Recognizes quality patient care, nursing excellence, and innovations in professional nursing practice.
• Provides a vehicle for disseminating successful nursing strategies and practices.
• Less than 5% of US hospitals have earned this designation
– Focus is now on OUTCOMES of a Magnet environment
Force 1 – Transformational Leadership
3 Sources of Evidence (SOE):– Strategic planning-Nursing-sensitive
– Advocacy and influence-organizational support for leadership development and reward for innovation
– Visibility, accessibility, and communication of nurse leaders by direct care nurses
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Force 2- Exemplary Professional Practice
9 Sources of Evidence (SOE):– Professional practice model (how nurses apply it)
– Care delivery systems (and how they are used to improve care)
– Staffing, scheduling, and budgeting processes (direct care nurses’ involvement)
– Accountability, competence, and autonomy (and how they are supported)
– Ethics, privacy, security, and confidentiality (and how nurses resolve issues related to these)
– Diversity and workplace advocacy (resources RNs can use)
– Culture of safety (benchmarking and use of nurse-sensitive quality indicators)
– Quality care monitoring and improvement (how data are provided to nurses)
– Interdisciplinary care (e.g. how interdisciplinary collaboration improves care)
Force 3: New Knowledge, Innovations, & Improvements
3 Sources of Evidence (SOE):
– Research (how direct care RNs incorporate published lit into practice)
– EBP (and how this affects patient outcomes)
– Innovation (how nursing practice is improved due to RN use of technology)
Force 4: Structural Empowerment
5 Sources of Evidence (SOE):
– Professional engagement-change in nursing practice because of nurse involvement
– Commitment to professional development (certification, career development)
– Teaching and role development (nursing support of community activities)
– Commitment to community involvement (this refers to nursing school involvement and service to the community)
– Recognition of nurses (by the organization)
What Does It Mean to Be Magnet at TJUH?
By focusing on the 5 Magnet components we sustain an environment that embraces nursing education, welcomes change, and focuses on using research and evidence-based practice. One which values collaboration and strives for exemplary patient outcomes. Most of all, we work in an environment of nursing excellence!
Magnet Re-designation Activities
• Annual submission of nursing demographic data
– Identifies all nurses in organization and their education, certification, continuing education activities
• Every 4 years re-application occurs
– Written validation of activities demonstrating culture of Magnetism
– Followed by a site visit
• Appraisers determine the degree to which the Forces of Magnetism are in place throughout the organization
• Appraisers will speak directly to nurses, physicians and other hospital staff and may speak to patients as well
How Can YOU Help Sustain a Magnet Culture?
• Working in a Magnet environment is a commitment to shared excellence in nursing; we all must be actively involved in creating and maintaining this culture
• You can help in many ways. Here are a few ideas:
– Maintain or achieve certification
– Go back to school
– Participate in a unit-based or hospital-based committee
– Conduct/assist with research projects
– Mentor nursing students
• The list is endless!
Thank you for supporting Jefferson’s Department of Nursing
in achieving re-designation as aMagnet™ Hospital.