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Ask the expert: Sustain the energy for redesignation

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, February 12, 2008

This week a reader asks how to keep nursing staff motivated for ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) redesignation. Read the response from our advisor Meryl Montgomery, RN, MSN, director for the learning center and MRP project director at Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, GA.

Q: How do you keep nursing staff motivated for redesignation?

A: At the Medical Center of Central Georgia, we are currently preparing for redesignation, and we've struggled with staff across the organization understanding the affect of being MRP-designated, as well as sustaining enthusiasm for redesignation. The following are things we are doing and you can do to engage, motivate, and sustain the energy:

• Provide weekly article in hospital newsletter highlighting one of the 14 Forces of Magnetism
• Hold facilitated retreats with nursing directors, assistant directors, educators, council chairs, and MRP champions to plan agenda to engage nurses for redesignation
• Have CNO or MRP project director attend all unit councils to support, applaud, and provide guidance
• Conduct a nursing project related to designation-last year each nursing department submitted a handmade quilt square and we made an MRP quilt
• Refresh and update unit bulletin boards
• Refresh internal MRP intranet site
• Have a series of pictures on your intranet site from all departments, not just nursing
• Show your various MRP videos at staff meetings
• Designate a unit council of the year and a research or quality council of the year and celebrate their work
• Focus on team awards for practice initiatives that involve ice cream parties, pizza, or brunch
• Complete an MRP fundraising project to send nurses to MRP conferences, buy recognition pins, or award a nursing scholarship
• Host internal nursing excellence logo contest
• Incorporate MRP logo into hospital goals
• Add MRP behavioral expectations to job descriptions for staff nurses, directors, and CNO
• Involve RNs in collecting evidence for the written documentation

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