Magnet Recognition: How Nurses Drive Healthcare Change in Facilities

This discussion post provides an overview of Magnet facilities, highlighting how achieving Magnet status drives positive healthcare changes within an institution. It emphasizes the importance of nurses in achieving this status and improving patient care. The post also touches on quality indicators and the fundamental components of nursing care that significantly impact patient satisfaction and safety. The discussion further explains how Magnet status fosters transformational leadership and structural empowerment among nurses, leading to overall improvements in healthcare quality and organizational performance. The Inpatient Quality Indicator is also discussed, demonstrating the effectiveness of nurses in healthcare facilities. The assignment solution emphasizes 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.

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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)

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The Quality indicators that push a healthcare organization’s operations, productivity and
its impression in the local community within its jurisdiction, revolve on how well the nurses
practice the essence of nursing. (Mellisa, 2015) The fundamental components of nursing care
are essential in improving the quality of care in the healthcare organization. Nurses play a critical
and important role in the general operations of the organization, hence making nursing essence
an important quality indicator. Nurses have a significant effect on patient satisfaction, their
safety and the patient-nurse relationship while at the hospital.
The nurse is a very important carder, because the nurse synchronizes the numerous fields
constituting patients care. Efficient nursing attention is significant in ensuring that the patient
fully recovers and that the condition does not recur and also leading to a stable working
environment. The Inpatient Quality Indicator is an indicator that clearly demonstrate the
effectiveness of the nurses in the health facility. The quality indicator demonstrates how the
patient is taken care of while at the facility and measures the mortality of patients while at the
facility due to overuse, underuse of certain stipulated procedures. It is important to take the
Quality Indicators with utmost seriousness because they lead to assessment of the quality of care
and improvements where need be.

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References.
(2018, Sep Monday). Retrieved from Agency For HealthCare Research and Quality:
http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/
Martin, Deborah, Falter, Elizabeth. (2009). American Nurses Credentialing Magnet Recognition
Program Application Manual 2008. Nursing Adminisrtration Quartely, 190.
Medicine, I. o. (2010). The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.
Mellisa. (2015). The Essence of Nursing. American Nurse Today, 5.
Pursuing Magnent Designation: The Role of Structural Empowerment. (2013). AORN Journal.

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