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Recruiting and retaining top nurses in Ohio

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, December 13, 2005

According to executives at three of Ohio's 10 ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® designated organizations, a major benefit of designation is their ability to draw and keep high-quality nursing professionals. One nursing executive from Miami Valley Hospital, which achieved the status in June 2004, says that designation ensures new nurses that they will practice next to the "best and brightest" nursing professionals who share their passion for excellence. Another hospital executive at Kettering Medical Center, which achieved the recognition in October 2005, says that support from senior leaders shows nurses that professional nursing and quality patient care are hospital priorities. A third nursing official at Upper Valley Medical Center, a designated facility since October 2003, says that designated facilities' traditions of higher patient satisfaction, lower infection rates, and higher nurse and physician satisfaction rates entice more, highly-qualified nurses to the profession. To support their commitments to nursing excellence, designated organizations submit mandatory annual reports to the ANCC tracking data such as patient outcomes, turnover rates, vacancy rates, and nurse participation in decision making.

Source: Dayton Daily News

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