The Magnet Certification
Mihaela Colea, Betty Drury, Harold Girado, Rebecca Madden
University of Phoenix
Research Utilization Project
NUR/598
Dr. Ashley Garneau
December 09, 2012

The Magnet Certification
The demand on improving the quality of service imposed by the Magnet certification on performing the health care needed solutions to solve global issues, such as nursing shortage, and the way the health system is developing. Based on research utilization proposals and highly trained staff, from management training, as well to support, and to nurse executives patient safety and health care quality is applied based on performance improvement projects. The components of a Model Magnet are exceptional professional practice, transformational leadership, empowerment, based on knowledge and innovation (American Nurses Credentialing Center, 2012). Magnet is something that demonstrates achievement. Magnet standards are also a set of standards to move toward (Chaney, 2002).
The Forces of Magnetism According to, the American Nurses Credentialing Center (2012), in 1983 a research study was performed that identified 14 characteristics that differentiated the hospitals best able to recruit and retain nurses. These characteristics became the “Forces of Magnetism” that form the conceptual framework for the Magnet Recognition Program. They are a designation that indicates excellence in nursing practice. According to the ANCC, the forces are described as high-quality nursing leadership, an organizational structure that places nurses in executive positions, a management style that values and encourages employee feedback, flexible, forward-thinking personnel and staffing policies, continuous quality-improvement initiatives, adequate resources, in the form of nursing experts, nurses who are empowered to work autonomously, partnerships between the hospital and