Magnet Requirements
1.submitting documentation 2.- outline hospital practices related to magnet 3. onsite visit 4. review of appraisal report by committee.
what is the application process for Magnet?
This connects every RN to the CNO and vice versa. It promotes nurse and inter-professional empowerment, shared leadership and accountability. Provides a process for shared decision making regarding nursing practice and the practice environment.
What is shared governance?
This domain includes visibility and accessibility of your leadership and the CNO through rounding, offsite visits, breakfast with Trish and meeting with all direct patient RN chairs of shared governance.
What is Transformational Leadership?
The rate at which patients experience an adverse event related to the administration of medications or the wrong dose.
What are Medication Administration Errors
This is a nursing quality indicator for Magnet that affects the outpatient healthcare realm.
What are falls with injury (per 1000 patient days)
completing a reevaluation every 4 years with a fee
what is maintaining Magnet status
This improved patient outcomes associated with the participation of clinical nurses serving as members of an organization level inter-professional decision making group to promote HPV vaccine completion.
What is the human papillomavirus vaccination Improvement project?
This domain includes what the organization has in place to help you grow professionally. It includes tuition reimbursement, certification and recertification reimbursement, performance evaluations nursing councils and the NPAP program.
What is Structural Empowerment?
This indicator reflects nursing care quality, measuring the frequency with which patients experience falls during their hospital stay.
What are patient falls?
Department councils, nursing councils, discussion with department leadership, RL6 reporting.
What are examples of how you make practice changes?
To verify and validate what was written on the application
why do appraisers do a site visit
The CDC recommends testing for people who are at increase risk for TB infection. Clinical nurses implemented an evidence based, revised practice for TB screening. A risk assessment questionnaire helps to determine patient risk factors, specific training through Healthstream surrounding the placement and reading of TB skin tests.
What is the tuberculosis improvement project?
This domain includes patient and staff satisfaction, NDNQU performance for falls, professional practice model (relationship based model of care), nursing retention, quality data tracking and inter-professional collaboration.
What is exemplary Professional Practice?
The measure reflects the frequency of patients with pressure ulcers who are at risk for developing new or worsening wounds during their hospital stay
What is pressure ulcer prevalence?
Recognition ceremonies, NPAP, EAP, continuing education support, communication with CNO, lunch and learns.
List some examples of how Endeavor Health supports its nursing and clinical staff?
the person that must actively participate in the organizations governing body
who is the chief nursing officer
Council connect (connecting with the staff to disseminate organizational information using technology and humor), Nurse honor guard (paying tribute to fallen nurses), RN triage education program (identifying risks of telephone triage, effective implementation of telephone triage).
What are the accomplishments of the Endeavor Health Nursing Council?
This domain includes any innovation or change in technology (think epic) to improve workflow or patient safety.
What is New Knowledge, Innovations?
This indicator assesses the extent to which patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge, often related to quality of care and discharge planning.
What is 30 day readmission rate?
Nurses week celebrations, Council connect, improvement projects, nursing education (telephone tirage education)
What are some examples that have come from shared governance?
nursing excellence, quality patient care, innovations in nursing practice, educational standards, transformational leadership.
what qualifies a hospital for magnet status
This advancement program offered by Endeavor Health incentivizes nurses through acknowledgement and monetary rewards for their pursuit for excellence and professional development.
What is NPAP (nursing professional advancement program)?
This domain includes all the data to validate that interventions are succeeding in improving outcomes.
What is Empirical Outcomes?
These indicators measure the percentage of patients who incur infections that are associated with urinary catheters or central venous catheters.
What are Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) and Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI)?
UA contamination project (Endeavor Medical Group Nursing Council), department specific improvement projects.
Give an example of how the organization and YOUR department has worked to improve practice.