Prizes motivate staff to share stories
HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, February 28, 2006
ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® project leaders employ a variety of methods to incorporate staff RN stories into their written documentation. One strategy for encouraging RNs to share their stories at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) incorporated written entries and a prize drawing. Leaders created a simple form with room for a nurse's name and unit, and space to write a story, and the stories were eventually reprinted by UIHC's marketing department. When a nurse submitted his or her story, he or she also completed an entry ticket to win a gift basket. "Sometimes it is hard to motivate people who have a great story to get it onto paper," says Barbara Hannon, RN, MSN, Magnet Recognition Program coordinator at UIHC. "We found that a prize occasionally helped to motivate!" After 60 days, the deadline for entry submission closed and the raffle winner was chosen.
Source: The best practice above is from Barbara Hannon, RN, MSN
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