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ANCC Magnet Hospitals

Persuasive Essay

Aubree D. Appel

Nightingale College
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Out of the 5,564 hospitals in the United States, there are only 461 hospitals that hold the

ANCC magnet accreditation. Around 60% of nurses that are employed in an ANCC magnet

hospital hold a BSN degree. Nurses who hold an associate degree in nursing, only have a 30%

employment rate at an accredited hospital. (Summers, 2008) Hospitals that have an ANCC

Magnet accreditation provide better values for many things other than being a general hospital.

Magnet status hospitals have better advancement for nursing standards and practice. They also

have higher rates and better improvement in patient care, safety and satisfaction for both

employees and incoming patients. They also hold higher retention rates when compared to

hospitals without the magnet status. ANCC Magnet status hospitals provide better benefits to the

people, community, and the hospital than those without the accreditation.

Statistics show hospitals have better care and performance rates with an ANCC Magnet

accreditation than to those without. “’Nurses really step up in this area,’ Urban said. ‘They really

make a change. They look for something that needs improvement, look at the processes in place

and the policies in place and really are the leaders of saying, 'We need to adjust what we're

currently doing because we're not getting the outcomes we desire of our patients'” (Vadurro.

2019). Magnet status hospitals even show a better economic performance when compared to a

non-magnet hospital. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study in 2014 which

showed the net patient revenue increased by almost 4% as costs only increased by 2.5%.

Hospitals without the ANCC Magnet accreditation provide the same benefits. Though the

hospitals that lack the Magnet status, non-magnet status hospitals still hold high standards for

their patients. The magnet status itself is not generally for the employees of the hospitals, it is to

show and have that accreditation to prove that the hospital and the employees are doing well to

address the patients need of care. “Such critics have also asserted that there is little evidence that
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nurses at Magnet hospitals are really much better off than nurses elsewhere. Many nurses have

written to us to say that once Magnet certification has been awarded at their hospitals, and the

hospitals have begun trumpeting the new status, the Magnet coordinators and teams are fired or

sidelined, and the progress made through the Magnet application process is dismantled”

(Summers. 2008). As the article states, many of the Magnet employees that continue to allow

the program to take off and run properly, are sometimes sidelined and pushed back. Which then

makes the program fall off and the Magnet status of the hospitals start to run downhill.

ANCC Magnet hospitals are overall better than hospitals without the accreditation. Both non-

magnet and magnet hospitals are good overall, but to choose, the Magnet accredited hospitals

provide more to many more standards. The magnet accredited hospitals provide overall better

care, have more beneficial offers to their employees both long and short term, and they also

provide an increase to the community around the hospital. Though the Magnet hospitals seek

employment to those who have a BSN degree over those with a RN, with a higher level of

knowledge put together by all the employees, there is an advantage as to why Magnet status

hospital rates are so much lower than to those without. There are less rates of patients who

develop pressure ulcers, lower fall risks, and overall better connections with the other staff

because they are all on the same level of knowledge and have more experience than to those with

a lower degree.

ANCC Magnet hospitals have better benefits to the surrounding area inside and out of the

hospital. Numbers are incredibly high than to those without the Magnet status. Tests have been

ran and have shown that nurses who have a better liking to their working environment show a

higher performance rate. To those with hospitals with the Magnet accreditation show there is a

better performance rate all around the hospital which increases morals even more. People will
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argue that non-magnet status hospitals are worse overall when compared to a Magnet status

hospital. Tests have shown that numbers are higher within the hospital, but they still show the

same number of standards that are held for their patients. Studies will also show that after the

accreditation of the Magnet status, hospitals will start to downfall due to the lack of magnet

coordinators being sidelined of even fired, with cause the whole program to go down. As Magnet

hospitals place BSN degree employees over RN employees, there is reason to show that with the

higher numbers from a Magnet hospital and higher level of knowledge from their employees.

That the reason their numbers are so much higher than those without the Magnet status that many

of their employees have a higher level of knowledge allowing the patients risks going down

because all of the nursing staff is all relatively on the same level.
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References

Summers, S. (2008). Magnet Recognition Program—Areas for Improvement. Retrieved

from https://www.truthaboutnursing.org/faq/magnet.html#gsc.tab=0

Vadurro, M. (2019, January 28). What is a Magnet Hospital?. Retrieved from

https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/2019/01/what-is-a-magnet-hospital

What is a Magnet Hospital?. (n.d) Retrieved from

https://onlinenursing.duq.edu/blog/what-is-a-magnet-hospital/

Wood, D. A. (n.d) Pursuing Magnet designation: Pros and Cons. Retrieved from

https://resources.nurse.com/magnet-hospitals-pros-and-cons