The effect of Magnet designation in health care institute. The health care industry is working hard more than ever to get excellence in patient care. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance and influence of Magnet designation on health care. Overview of Magnet Designation
The magnet designation program recognizes health care organizations for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice. (Mason, 528). The magnet designation program is an award designed to recognize excellence in patient outcomes and satisfaction of nurses. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) developed the national magnet hospital recognition program in 1980’s on the purpose of recognizing quality patient care, nursing excellences, and professional
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The Magnet Recognition Program was initially developed to attract and maintain nursing staff. According to American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) web site, the program “was developed by the ANCC to recognize health care organizations that provide nursing excellence. The program also provides a vehicle for disseminating successful nursing practices and strategies.” Nursing administration continues to have an integral role associated with the demonstration of excellence in achieving the highest honor of nursing distinction. The exploration of force one, quality of nursing leadership, continues to be the foundation of magnet recognition.
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The professional development plan for nursing graduates is a program that was started by the government with the aims of creating a smooth transition from the student experience to workplace experience. Despite having learnt several ethical and professional contents, the professional development plan ensures that, all the graduate nurses have a smooth transition that ensures they deliver quality and standard services as expected of them (Gordon & Franklin, 2003). Under the nursing professional plan, the nurses are supposed to bring together personal and professional skills in order to improve the quality of the nursing practice in the country.
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To achieve Magnet status, an organization has to demonstrate its commitment to nursing excellence by working towards improving nursing practice and changing the work environment. One of the documentation required is the educational background of all the nurses, including what percent of nurses have an associate, bachelors or higher degree in nursing. More than seventy-five percent of nurse managers should have at least a Bachelor 's degree. All the data regarding patient quality care needs to be submitted to American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) on a quarterly basis and is compared to benchmark performance and against national benchmark performance. All the data has to be submitted for at least 2 years before the written documentation regarding organizational, nursing achievements and changes are submitted. These organizational changes must demonstrate the health care structure followed by the organization; its effect on the patient care, leadership, management philosophy, and how it has helped achieve a better quality of patient care. After all the documentation has been submitted, ANCC does a three-day intensive on-site review of the organization. After an intensive review of documentation, on-site visit, votes are cast to confer Magnet review to the
Marquis and Huston (2015), declared that for hospitals or healthcare organizations to achieve a magnet status, they must create and promote a comprehensive professional practice culture of nursing excellence that are linked to improved outcomes. Aside from the 14 forces of magnetism required for organizations, they must also demonstrate empirical modeling of five key components: transformational leadership; structural empowerment; exemplary professional practice; new knowledge innovation and improvements; and empirical quality results (Marquis & Huston, 2015). With magnet status in mind, all nurses, nursing staff, and other personnel should be a willing participant to do their best in regards to providing a safe quality care, following the standards of practice, and outstanding
There are many organizations pursing the accreditation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program (Pinkerton, 2008). It is a great achievement when an organization receives Magnet recognition. However, “several factors must be considered by those organizations making the decision, and these factors can be grouped and reviewed using the recently released empirical model for the Magnet Recognition Program” (Pinkerton, 2008, p. 323).
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Registered nurses have an abundance of opportunities in the healthcare industry they can pursue to achieve fulfillment in their nursing career. The fact that there are so many options available, nursing professionals become committed to their selected specialty according to their job satisfaction. Heightened job fulfillment enhances the nursing retention rate (Sudheimer, 2009). Nurses are satisfied when they fill competent and realize that they are respected for the work they do, giving them the intrinsic motivation to work even harder for their organization (Toode, Rousasalo, Helminen, & Suominen, 2014). The purpose of this paper is to examine my personal professional fulfilling and unfulfilling experiences