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Inside best practice: Celebrate other nursing units

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, July 15, 2008

Healthcare organizations know it’s important to recognize and celebrate nursing excellence to retain staff. And while it’s usually managers and the organization rewarding nurses, nurses can recognize each other as well.

Aultman Health Foundation in Canton, OH—an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) recipient in 2006—discovered that nurses wanted the chance to celebrate and recognize another nursing unit. Thus, each nursing unit was given a different unit to highlight.

“The nurses took pictures, interviewed each other, gathered statistics such as number of patients treated, longevity of nurses, total years of experience, etc., and with this information, each unit made tri-fold posters,” says Gina Boring, MSN, RN, NE-BC, MRP director. The posters were displayed in the hospitals auditorium, and staff was invited to come and look at them. After the presentation, the posters were displayed in Aultman’s main lobby for patients and their families to see.

“A lot of pride went into these posters, and it gave nurses an opportunity to go out and learn something about another unit,” says Boring.

Source: Gina Boring, MRP director at Aultman Health Foundation, is a member of HCPro’s talk group: Journey Talk. 

Editor’s note: Do you have a best practice that you would like to share? E-mail your best practice to associate editor Cameran Erny at cerny@hcpro.com and see your name in print!

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