Nurses Make the Difference - Importance of Magnet Status and Nursing Essence

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Nurses Make the Difference
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Nurses Make the Difference.
Magnet Facility is a healthcare organization that has gone an extra mile to earn the
Nursing excellence status, which is attained by being eligible to the number of requirements
stated by the credentialing body. The status enables the organization to garner external prestige
by demonstrating to the world that the organization, acknowledges the invaluable potential of
nurses to steer healthcare change. Magnet Status also has a lot of meaning to the facility, it
shows that exceedingly competent and content staff have an encouraging effect on the safety of
the patients and are readily prepared to undertake their duties in a way that will prevent adverse
situations that can harm patients leading to increased hospital cost.
The Magnet Facility works towards specific goals and objectives. The goals include
fostering excellence in an establishment that promotes expert custom, recognizing competence in
the delivery of nursing services to the community and propagating first class exercise in nurse
practices. The excellence status in turn makes it possible for the hospital to irresistibly appeal to,
as well maintain extremely-capable proficient nurses, increasing the quality of care in the
hospital as well making sure the nursing team is well-equipped and able which later translates to
happy patients and clients. (Pursuing Magnent Designation: The Role of Structural
Empowerment, 2013)
Magnet status offers a series of benefits to the hospital as stated by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center. The benefits include the ability to attract a the best of the best nurses and
the talented as well, improving the safety and the satisfaction of the patients , promoting
collaboration and teamwork in the organization and also developing the facility as a business
which will trickle down to its financial success. (Martin, Deborah, Falter, Elizabeth, 2009) The
process that leads to acquiring the magnet status is in itself a tool that can be used as an

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assessment of the organization, because it entails assessing every important aspect that
contributes to the smooth running of operations in the organization. The Magnet status has also
played a critical role in leading to positive healthcare change. Healthcare change following the
acquisition of the status can be explained in terms of nurses taking pride in their work and
working diligently and offering the best of service. Magnet status also leads to transformational
leadership in the sense that nurses can also take positions of leadership and feel as important as
the other employees. The status has also enhanced Structural empowerment because the efforts
of the nurses and their will to excel will translate to the entire hospital leading to achievement of
goals and offering best services. (Medicine, 2010)
It is evident that the Magnet Status is important and as demanding and competitive as it
might be it is important that all hospitals strive to get the credential because the benefits that
follow the status are tremendous. The status has also proved that the nurses can make the
difference.
Discussion 2. The Essence of Nursing.
Quality Indicators (QIs) are defined as unvarying measures of healthcare quality that can
be utilized with the available hospital inpatient administrative data to measure and track clinical
performance and outcomes. The main reason as to why we have such quality indicators in place
is to ensure that the quality of care is measured leading to improvements in sections that scores
are low in the indicators. Application of quality indicators later translates to improved healthcare
quality. (Agency For HealthCare Research and Quality, 2018)