The journey to "Magnet Excellence" is an extensive, demanding widespread involvement process within an organization. The journey is an illuminating self-assessment to healthcare facilities and their staff. However, the journey creates opportunity for organizational development, team building, and individual nursing augmentation and promotion of professional self-esteem.Several advances require taking in order to initiate the Magnet Process in an organization:
1. Take Self-Assessment Surveys:
Determine if the Magnet Journey is one your organization is ready to commence.
2. Analyze Gaps:
Obtain the results of the self-assessment surveys and compare them to your organization’s current performance abilities.
Using the Forces of Magnetism and the ANA Scope and Standards for Nurse Administrator,identify gaps and prioritize actions. Achieve higher performance levels by developing action plans. http://www.webmedbooks.com/ucsd/content/productdetail.aspx?upc=4c344a4d-50c0-4fd3-971e-31fca8f988db
3. Obtain Additional Assistance as Needed:
A Senior Program Analyst will be assigned to your organization once your application is accepted.
To assist your organization through the Magnet Journey consultation services are available through the Institute for Credentialing Innovation at (301) 628-5235.
4. Culture Transformation:
*Educate staff regarding the Forces of Magnetism.
*Develop infrastructure to support programs such as shared governance, quality improvement, peer review, evidence-based practice, collegial teamwork, nursing research, etc.
*Engage the nursing staff in the application of these infrastructures.
*Critically examine the organizations culture.
*Complete the written application portion within set timelines and by actively working teams.
*Acknowledge achievements made during the journey and continually evaluate and transform as you travel the Magnet Journey.
*Achieve top leadership support and participation.
If you should decide to take the Magnet Journey and apply all the Forces incorporated in the process “MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU” and your organization as you assume the nurse leadership role in assisting and leading the Magnet team to higher quality patient care and outcomes.
2 comments:
These steps seem like excellence things to incorporate whether your institution is trying to achieve magnet status or not! Taking these steps will help facilities address the nursing shortage by retaining nurses, decreasing turnover, and creating a successful work environment..... not to mention better patient outcomes!
Thank you for a great summary of the entire purpose of the Magnet Program. The student believes the results of the program far outweigh the effort and work involved in obtaining Magnet status. The purpose of the program is to address and offer a long term solution to major issues that we face in the nursing profession today. Ultimately, to provide quality patient care resulting in optimum patient outcomes.
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