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Magnetizing NKCH
Nursing Ethics
Council Accomplishments/Goals
Shared Governance Structure
100
This designation is awarded by the ANCC for healthcare organizations for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice
What is Magnet Designation?
100
Maintaining privacy of information.
What is Confidentiality?
100
This council helps to improve patient education materials, and also owns the clinical ladder. This year it plans to continue improving on it's projects.
What is The Education Council?
100
This group reviews multidisciplinary studies throughout the hospital, as well as provides guidance/support to those involved in studies and EBP activities.
What is the Research Council?
200
This Magnet Component includes new models of care, application of existing evidence, new evidence, and visible contributions to the science of nursing
What is New Knowledge, Innovations, and Improvements?
200
The ethical principle that focuses on truthfulness
What is Veracity?
200
This Council held the first "Fall Symposium" in December, surveyed staff about fall causes, and has created education about fall prevention that will go hospital wide next term!
What is the Quality Council?
200
This group oversees the Shared Governance Structure at NKCH by collaborating with all of the councils
What is the Steering Council?
300
This Magnet Component entails a comprehensive understanding of the role of nursing; the application of that role with patients, families, communities, and the interdisciplinary team; and the application of new knowledge and evidence.
What is Exemplary Professional Practice?
300
The ethical principle that focuses on a person's self right to choose
What is autonomy?
300
This group selects Daisy winners based on nominations, has served as the "initial springboard" for several large projects, and does initial approval/editing of the Shared Governance Structure Bylaws.
What is the Steering Council?
300
This group creates and reviews policies regarding nursing care at NKCH.
What is the Standards of Practice Council?
400
This Magnet Component encourages an organization provide an innovative environment where strong professional practice flourishes and where the mission, vision and values come to life to achieve the outcomes believed to be important for the organization. This is accomplished through the organization's strategic plan, structure, systems, policies, and programs.
What is Structural Empowerment?
400
The ethical principle that focuses on fair treatment
What is justice?
400
This group has spearheaded projects such as "STOP BANG", added the code status to the banner bar, hourly rounding x1 at end of shift, and updates all Policies and Procedures to meet evidence based standards.
What is the Standards of Practice Council?
400
This group measures/ensures the hospital meets benchmarks on nursing-sensitive indicators at NKCH.
What is Quality Council?
500
This Magnet Component requires the organization's senior leadership team to create the vision for the future, and the systems and environment necessary to achieve that vision. They must enlighten the organization as to why change is necessary, and communicate each department's part in achieving that change. They must listen, challenge, influence, and affirm as the organization makes its way into the future.
What is Transformational Leadership?
500
The ethical principle that covers "do no harm"
What is non-maleficence?
500
This council completed a study over nursing stress, approved several multidisciplinary studies, formatted a guide to starting a journal club, and initiated a form to guide people through EBP projects.
What is the Research Council?
500
This multidisciplinary group ensures appropriate learning activities for new things within the hospital in order to promote exemplary patient care.
What is Education Council?