The year the American Academy of Nursing created a task force to identify and describe variables within hospitals that attracted and retained well qualified nurses who promoted quality patient care.
What is 1981?
100
Shared governance or other shared decision making structure.
What is an example of Organizational Structure (Force 2)?
100
Knowledgeable experts, including advanced practice nurses, are available and used.
Peer support is given within and outside the nursing division.
What are examples of Consultation and Resources (Force 8)?
100
January 2010
What is the month and year that Children's National Medical Center received Magnet designation.
200
An Award given by the ANCC to hospitals that satisfy a set of criteria designed to measure the strength and quality of nursing.
What is Magnet Status?
200
The number of hospitals in the original study showing an ability to attract and retain professional nurses during a national nursing shortage.
What is 41?
200
Peer evaluation
What is an example of a program that exemplifies Management Style (Force 3)?
200
Staff nurses serve as mentors, preceptors, or adjunct faculty members.
Preceptor program.
What are examples of Nurses as Teachers (Force 11)?
200
Transformational Leadership
Structural Empowerment
Exemplary Professional Practice
New Knowledge, Innovations and Improvement
Empirical Quality Outcomes
What are the New Magnet Model Components?
300
Where nursing delivers excellent patient outcomes, where nurses have a high level ofjob satisfaction, and where there is a low staff nurse turnover ratae and appropriate grievance resolution.
What is a Magnet hospital?
300
The organization that developed an evaluation program based upon the conceptual framework identified by the 1983 research study.
What is the ANA (American Nurses Association)?
300
Salaries and benefits are competitive.
Creative flexible staffing models are used.
Significant opportunities for growth in administrative and clinical areas.
What are examples of Personnel Policies and Programs (Force 4)?
300
Relationships with local schools or colleges of nursing.
Volunteer activities of the nursing staff.
Involvement of nurses in state nursing associations.
What are examples of Community and the healthcare organization (Force 10)?
300
Independent research shows Magnet-designated health care organizations consistently outperform their peers in recruiting and retaining nurses.
What is a benefit of Magnet designation?
400
Every 4 years
What is How often do hospitals have to apply for Magnet redesignation?
400
A set of characteristics that seemed to account for a particular hospitals success in attracting and keeping a staff of well qualified nurses at a time when other hospitals were not able to do so.
What is What are the Forces of Magnetism?
400
Results of patient, nurse and employee satisfaction surveys
Results of nurse sensitive indicators
What are examples of Quality of Care (Force 6)?
400
Promotion of awards won by staff nurses.
Link to nursing Web page from the hospital home page.
What are examples of Image of Nursing (Force 12)?
400
...having a strong structure and processes are foundational. The fcus has shifted to the outcomes of these structures and processes and how these outcomes compare to benchmarks.
What are Empirical Quality Outcomes?
500
Documentation required by ANCC in support of 164 topics related to the Forces of Magnetism.
What are sources of evidence?
500
University of Washington Medical Center.
What is the first facility to receive Magnet designation?
500
Unit based quality projects.
Quality projects are evidence based and result in a change in practice.
What are examples of Quality Improvement (Force 7)?
500
Positive nurse-physician relationships.
Nurse-physician collaboration on patient-focused committees.
What are examples of Interdisciplinary Relationships (Force 13)?
500
The nursing theory that guides professional nursing practice at Children's National Medical Center.