#Magnet hospitals professional#

To help to solve this problem, the Governing Council of the American Academy of Nursing appointed a Task Force on Nursing Practice in Hospitals in 1981, charging it вЂњto examine characteristics of systems impeding and/or facilitating professional nursing practice in hospitals.вЂќ The task force members were already familiar with the many factors that had been identified in various studies as the вЂњcauses вЂќ of the hospital nursing shortage. The ANCC Magnet Recognition Program was created for health care organizations who truly value nursing talent. There are currently some 100,000 vacancies in hospital nursing positions and this has had a crippling effect on the day-to-day operations of many hospitals (Aiken, 1981). Aiken succinctly described the scope of the problem as it existed in the early 1980s: Despite an aggregate national supply of nurses that is larger than ever before, over 80 percent of AmericaвЂ™s hospitals do not have adequate nursing staffs. This elite, four-year designation is held by less than nine percent of hospitals nationwide, and studies show that those with Magnet status tend to have. I would like to thank the entire Mather staff for their dedication and excellence in patient. Since sufficient numbers of professional nurses are essential if hospitalized patients and their families are to receive quality care, and since nurses provide 95 % of the care that patients receive while hospitalized (American Hospital Association, n.d.), these essential care needs will not continue to be met unless hospitals can solve the вЂњnursing shortage problem вЂќ вЂ“ that is, their inability to attract and retain competent, experienced professional nurses. Only 471 hospitals worldwide have earned the Magnet designation.

The Nursing Leadership team at PAH understands that Magnet is more than a designation it is a culture of dedication, engagement, and service. The hospital nursing shortage poses a serious threat to the health and welfare of this nation. Achieving ANCC MagnetВ® recognition, first in 2015 and again in 2020, has been a significant accomplishment for the nursing and interprofessional teams at Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH).