To promote excellence in nursing and health care globally, American Nurse Credentialing Center introduce a recognition program called Magnet. Magnet recognized institute demonstrates high quality in patient and nurse satisfaction, superior nursing practice and outcomes. Magnets designation helps to foster a collaborative culture that attracts and retain top talent nurses. It also improves patient care, safety, and satisfaction. The goal of Magnet Recognition Program is to 1. promote quality in a setting that supports professional practice, 2. Identify excellence in the delivery of nursing services to patient 3. Disseminate best practice nursing services
Also, magnets provide an Internet -based learning program for nurses to share evidence-based practice, resource, research, experience and strategies that led to quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practices.
The Magnet model is base on four basic principle: Transformational Leadership, Structural Empowerment, Exemplary Professional Practice, New Knowledge, Innovation and improvement and Empirical Outcome.Magnet recognized nurse demonstrate patient advocacy.Nurses also involved in shared governance and decision-making structures and process of established standards of practice and address opportunities for improvement.
Magnet is not an award it’s credential, once the hospital has attained Magnet status, it must continue to deliver and maintain nursing excellence.Magnet Status is good for 4-years period but during this period facility have to compliance with Magnet principles.Magnet also provides support and manifest patient safety and provide interdisciplinary collaboration and continuity of care.Magnet helps to create a positive environment just not only relate to patient care but to nurse as well.In one of the research in one of the hospital,