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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, July 19, 2005

Abington Memorial Hospital, a 508-bed not-for-profit community hospital in Abington, PA, has been an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® organization since July 2003. Hospital representatives have the following advice for organizations that decide to pursue designation:

  • Allow at least six months to write the application
  • Delegate narratives and case studies to identified "experts"
  • Assign a committee/team to each Force (or Forces) of Magnetism
  • Distribute the ANCC's application manual to each team and use a uniformed approach for all of the Forces
  • Identify a team to organize a "document room" and manage the document-assembly process

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