must provide documented evidence to demonstrate how
staff members sustained and improved Magnet concepts,
performance and quality over the four-year period since the
organization received its earlier recognition.
Research demonstrates that Magnet recognition provides
specific benefits to health care organizations and their
communities, such as:
• Higher patient satisfaction with nurse communication,
availability of help and receipt of discharge
The Magnet Model provides a framework for nursing
information
practice, research, and measurement of outcomes. Through
• Lower risk of 30-day mortality and lower failure to
this framework, ANCC evaluates applicants across a
rescue rates
number of components and dimensions to gauge an
• Higher job satisfaction among nurses
organization’s nursing excellence. The foundation of this
model comprises various elements deemed essential
• Lower nurse reports of intentions to leave their
to delivering superior patient care. These
positions
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Magnet recognition is the gold standard
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across specialties, as well as processes
for nursing excellence and is a factor
Empowerment
for measuring and improving the
when the public judges health
quality and delivery of care.
care organizations. U.S. News &
World Report’s annual showcase of
To achieve initial Magnet
Exemplary
“America’s Best Hospitals” includes
Transformational
EMPIRICAL
Professional
recognition, organizations
Leadership
Magnet recognition in its ranking
OUTCOMES
Practice
must pass a rigorous and
criteria for quality of inpatient care.
lengthy process that demands
widespread participation from
Health care organizations must
New
Knowledge,
leadership
and staff. This process
reapply for Magnet recognition
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every four years based on adherence
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written patient care documentation,
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to Magnet concepts and demonstrated
an on-site visit, and a review by the
improvements in patient care and quality.
Commission
on Magnet Recognition.
An organization reapplying for Magnet recognition
EXEMPLARS FROM MAGNET ®
ANCC recognized Baylor Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital
for several areas called “Exemplars.” These are areas of significant
excellence in comparison to Magnet Recognition Program hospitals
across the country.
• The unit-level data for 2/3 Specialty Care Unit for ‘Falls with
Injury’ outperformed the NDNQI Mean benchmark statistic
for All Hospitals for all eight quarters on the unit presented.
“We’re a better organization today
because of the Magnet recognition
we first achieved years ago. Magnet
recognition improved the quality
of patient care and inspired every
member of our team to achieve
• The unit-level data for 2/3 Specialty Care Unit for ‘HAPU Stage
2 and above’ outperformed the NDNQI Mean benchmark statistic
for All Hospitals for all eight quarters on the unit presented. excellence every day. It is this
• The organization-level data for ‘VTE-1 Venous
Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis’ outperformed the
Midas 50th percentile for all participating facilities benchmark
statistic for all eight quarters presented. that helped us become a Magnet-
community with high-quality care
recognized organization, and it’s why
we continue to pursue and maintain
Magnet recognition.”
Lindsey Briley Teefey, MSN, RN-BC
Magnet Coordinator and Nursing Supervisor
Baylor Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital
• The unit-level data for ‘NCDR-ICD: Portion of Patients
that Receive Antibiotics Prior to the ICD Implant or Lead
Procedure’ outperformed the Comparison Group R4Q median
benchmark statistic for all eight quarters on 100 percent of the
units presented.
commitment to providing our
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