MAGNET FOUNDATIONS
The credentialing body that awards Magnet recognition to healthcare organizations demonstrating excellence in nursing practice
What is the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)?
This staff member is the first line of defense for service recovery
What is RN?
This is the date we submitted our Magnet documents
What is October 1, 2025
This is the formal term when appraisers come to evaluate your readiness for Magnet designation
What is the site visit?
At PBMC, nurses participate in unit-based and hospital-wide councils to influence decision-making
What is shared governance?
This magnet component focuses on structures and processes that empower nurses, such as shared governance, professional development, and community involvment
What is Structural Empowerment?
The best practice, done by all members of the nursing team, impacts many aspects of patient experience scores
What is Proactive Purposeful Rounding?
This team wrote the Magnet documents
Who are the Magnet writers?
This is the "showstopper" to apply for Magnet?
What is the RN Satisfaction Survey?
Our new graduate nurses at PBMC participate in this structured program, providing them with mentorship, education, and support
What is Nurse Residency Program?
A hallmark of Magnet organizations, this decision-making model empowers nurses at all levels to participate in policy, procedure, and practice decisions
What is Shared Governance?
This type of score reflects the percentage of patients who responded to the survey questions "always."
What is the box score?
This is our Professional Practice Model
What is the Collaborative Care Model?
How many years is the magnet designation valid for?
What are four years?
This ongoing PBMC initiative aims to proactively identify and mitigate potential patient safety risks
What are huddles and interdisciplinary rounds?
This Magnet component requires organizations to collect and analyze data on nurse-sensitive indicators to demonstrate superior patient outcomes
What are Empirical Outcomes?
This Patient experience topic is most often noted negatively on the night shift
What is Quiet at Night?
Site visit is the opportunity to watch the "....." after reading the 'book"
What is the "Movie"
This model describes how we practice nursing at PBMC
What is the Professional Practice Model?
When PBMC trials a new technology or a clinical procedure on a small scale before hospital-wide implementation, it's often referred to as this
What is a pilot project?
PBMC nurses exemplify this Magnet component by actively participating in professional organizations, pursuing higher education, and obtaining specialty certifications
What is exemplary Professional Practice?
For Magnet submission, our goal was to outperform this many of the 8 quarters of PX data submitted
What is at least 5/8
This team is the focus of the Magnet site visit and the appraisers must meet/speak/reach >60% of team
Who are Clinical Nurses?
This Magnet Component includes shared governance and opportunities for improvement
What is Structural Empowerment?
This consult can be made by any staff member where there is a Moral concern related to patient care, staff concerns etc.,
What is Ethics?