It also seems like a conflict of interest that ANCC, the corporation that awards magnet designation, requires a percentage of ANCC certified nurses. Magnet status has nothing to do with nurse patient ratios or patient outcomes. Along with expense of the councils and consultants you can see why the understaffed direct care nurses feel the money could be better spent just hiring more staff. Great question, by the way :) And welcome to the culture and world of nursing :)ĭepending on the size of the hospital, the expense of magnet certification is outrageous, from 250,000 to millions of dollars. If I'd also worked in the other nonmagnet area hospital, I might've had less to p$%^ and moan about "oh gawd, not ANOTHER bunch of paperwork to get 'magnet designation' I have ENOUGH to do already!!"Īlso, one member here posted something (I hope he/she will speak up) about magnet hospitals and nursing satisfaction - the correlation was LESS nursing satisfaction in magnet hospitals! It's not your imagination, or mine, it's real. Most of us don't work in two different hospitals at the same time so we can contrast and compare 'magnet' versus 'unmagnet', which described my situation. I suspect the venting is just venting, more than it is 'actual', and where the rubber hits the road, being 'magnet' is indeed an improvement. Oppressed minorities are given to a lot of complaining and venting. It's better than it was years past, but bedside nurses exist in a chronically oppressed state. Nurses are an oppressed minority, unfortunately. out there, abstract, WTH, who cares? that naturally you've heard 'magnet is bad'. Then add in the 'norm' of skeleton staffing, sicker patients, the constant threat of 'the State' coming to tell you what you've screwed up, the managers equally burdened because their evaluations and pay raises being dependent in part on patient satisfaction surveys, how well they kept to the budget and other indicators rather outside their personal control, and so 'magnet' can, and does, appear so. It's a lot like the old Telephone game in this.īedside nursing is both extremely rewarding and extremely difficult and hard on the nurses physically and emotionally. What is there has become distorted by the ideal of 'magnet' passing down through corporate to the individual who is the DON, to the managers, and finally to the nursing staff. What I complained about having to do or be to help us get our second magnet designation was how 'being magnet', in the trenches of nursing (also known as bedside nursing), the idea of 'magnet' has very little actual presence. The snip you quoted would be in all honesty the INTENTION behind 'magnet status', which is obviously good. However! After knowing what I know about what 'magnet status' means, having worked in one struggling to get their second such recognition (much more difficult than the first), I have an experience that relates to your question. "Why are magnet hospitals bad?" is a question you have to distort reality to answer They are not 'bad' or 'good', because no one thing is either/or. These are obviously contradictory, but I'm sure that people are saying they're not the best place to work have some reasoning, since I've seen it more than a couple times. ANCC proclaims that "A growing body of research indicates that Magnet hospitals have higher percentages of satisfied RNs, lower RN turnover and vacancy, improved clinical outcomes and improved patient satisfaction." " The program also offers an avenue to disseminate successful nursing practices and strategies. It is considered the highest recognition for nursing excellence. "The Magnet Recognition Program is a recognition program operated by the American Nurses Credentialing Center that recognizes healthcare organizations that provide excellence in nursing. When I googled "magnet hospital", all I could find were blurbs like this, that don't sound bad at all: I have seen a few posters here say that magnet hospitals are a crap place to work. Break this down for me Barney-style, since I'm not even a nursing student yet (I apply after this semester).
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