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.