Magnet 101
This organization awards Magnet designation
What is the ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center)?
This component focuses on empowering nurses through shared governance and professional development.
What is Structural Empowerment?
This nursing specialty is considered the oldest—dating back to ancient times.
What is midwifery?
Magnet organizations must show that nurses participate in this type of decision‑making council structure.
What is shared governance?
This team of experts visits organizations to validate Magnet standards before designation.
Who are Magnet appraisers?
Evidence‑based practice, ethics, and collaboration fall under this Magnet component.
What is Exemplary Professional Practice?
The first training school for nurses in the U.S. opened in this city.
What is Boston? (New England Hospital for Women and Children, 1872)
During a site visit, appraisers often ask staff to describe this model that guides professional practice.
What is the Professional Practice Model (PPM)?
Hospitals that earn ANCC Magnet designation achieve lower rates of this nurse‑related outcome.
What is nurse turnover?
This component is all about leadership guiding the organization into the future.
What is Transformational Leadership?
This hospital became the first to earn ANCC Magnet designation back in 1994.
What is University of Washington Medical Center?
Only about this percentage of U.S. hospitals hold Magnet status.
What is ~9–10%? (approx.)
Organizations applying for Magnet must submit this type of detailed written evidence.
What is the Magnet document/appraisal document?
Research, innovation, and improvements are emphasized in this Magnet component.
What is New Knowledge/Innovation?
Fewer than 1% of U.S. hospitals have achieved this impressive milestone.
What is receiving six or more Magnet designations?
These surveys measure nursing perceptions of the work environment and must show improvement for Magnet designation.
What are nursing satisfaction or engagement surveys?
Magnet hospitals must show strong performance in these 5 overarching components of the Magnet Model?
What are the Magnet Model Components? (Transformational Leadership, Structural Empowerment, Exemplary Professional Practice, New Knowledge/Innovation, Empirical Outcomes).
The component that requires measurable improvements in patient, workforce, and organizational outcomes.
What is Empirical Outcomes?
This year marked the landmark American Academy of Nursing study that identified 41 hospitals with exceptional nurse-retention qualities, which lead to what we now call "Magnet."
What is 1983?
Magnet expects organizations to demonstrate sustained improvement, typically over this number of years.
What is three years?