Jefferson

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Jeffersons Magnet Journey
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Jefferson is on a Magnet Journey to Nursing
Excellence
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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

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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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!

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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

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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!

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Thank you for supporting Jeffersons Department
of Nursing in achieving
re-designation as aMagnet Hospital.