Developing competency to achieve Magnet® success
HealthStream offers solutions that help you achieve the five components of Magnet® accreditation. Improve the performance of your healthcare organization through a clearly outlined journey to success to achieving and maintaining this vital healthcare accreditation.
New Knowledge, Innovation, and Improvements
Knowledge is constantly being disproved and replaced, which demands a dedication to life-long learning.
How can healthcare workers deliver evidence-based practice in this novel, emerging situation? Likewise, healthcare facilities seeking Magnet® status can experience the tension of the paradox between evidence-based practice and innovation, new knowledge, and improvements.
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Empirical Quality Results on Global Issues in Nursing and Healthcare
The Magnet® structure and processes are designed to ensure the empirical outcomes. The empirical outcomes are transformational leadership, structural empowerment, exemplary professional practice, and new knowledge, innovation, and improvement.
There are no specified quantitative outcome requirements or established benchmark data to allow comparisons with best practices and identify needed changes. However, attempting to address the empirical quality outcomes globally with the same plan is not likely to address problems which differ among facilities. A “one size fits all” approach does not allow for customized improvement. Rather, each facility may invest resources to meet their unique needs.
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Structural Empowerment
Transformational leaders develop and direct their employees to achieve organizational goals and desired outcomes. Evidence links employee satisfaction and retention with client safety and outcomes.
A quality work environment boosts the institution financially. As employees develop a voice to tell their story, they feel empowered when they see desired change happen, when their concerns are addressed, and when they are supported by a workplace culture that values client safety.
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Exemplary Professional Practice
Exemplary professional practice is the positive pole of the magnet model. It includes how employees communicate and interact with clients, families, and the interdisciplinary team to provide quality care through best practices.
The exemplary employee inspires others with professionalism, interpersonal skills, and passion for the profession. In every situation, the exemplary professional treats others with respect and dignity. The exemplary professional continuously challenges themselves, by pursuing further formal education or professional certification and participating in shared-governance or professional organizations.
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Transformational Leadership
Google Dictionary defines transform as "make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of." As a result, transformational leadership can be particularly valuable in the turbulent and uncertain healthcare environment. Transformational leadership is one of the four empirical quality results identified in the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet® model. The empirical quality results focus on results (concrete data on the difference a Magnet® facility has made) rather than the process (what the Magnet® facility has done or how they may have done it).
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The Magnet® Model
This ebook contains 5 chapters covering the 5 Model Components of the Magnet Recognition Program®:
- Transformational Leadership
- Structural Empowerment
- Exemplary Professional Practice
- New Knowledge, Innovation, and Improvements
- Empirical Quality Results
HealthStream solutions help you achieve and maintain Magnet® accreditation by:
- Providing knowledgeable resources for improvements and innovation
- Offering quality content on global issues in nursing and healthcare
- Building structural empowerment
- Supporting exemplary professional practice
- Enhancing staff experience through transformational leadership
Resources & Articles
Magnet Designation: Is It Worth It?
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program® honors hospitals for excellence in nursing leadership, clinical practice, innovations, and positive outcomes. The current program has its roots in a ground-breaking study conducted by the American Academy of Nursing over 30 years ago.
Seven Essential Steps to Take Before A Magnet Journey
This blog post is an excerpt from an article by Gen Guanci, MEd, RN-BC, CCRN, Creative Health Care Management, in the current issue of PX Alert, HealthStream's quarterly e-newsletter devoted to the wide range of challenges, situations, and issues that have an impact on the patient experience. Subscribe to PX Alert.\n\nThere’s no doubt about it: the pursuit of Magnet® designation has a lot more in common with a marathon than it does with a sprint. Here are seven tips for preparing for a Magnet journey.
Magnet® Designation: Why it Matters and What You Need to Know
The beauty of using the pursuit of Magnet® designation as the framework for your cultural transformation is that it sets out clear parameters for all aspects of the transformation. The very pursuit of Magnet® designation will almost certainly bring your organization a myriad of improvements in nursing excellence, nurse satisfaction, and nurse retention.